Double Elvis.

Hey Discoos, need a little more disgrace land in your life?

Just to touch to get you through?

Yeah me too.

This is the podcast that comes after the podcast.

Welcome to Disgrace Land, the After Party.

This is the show After the Show, the party After the Party, the bridge to get you from

one full episode of Disgrace Land to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt.

On this episode, we're talking about Merle Haggard, my country music gateway drug,

more British post punk, and of course, the most important thing to do is to get you through

the show.

Let's get into it.

Alright, we are here, we are together, we are commuting in Disgrace Land.

That is Merle Haggard Week.

Merle Haggard is of course the subject of our latest full episode of Disgrace Land,

and in the mini bonus up leading up to the full up on Merle, I discuss a bit about Merle's

background and his crimes and his stint in prison and fulsome prison, even his relation

to the high character H.I. from Raising Arizona.

So, if you're interested in all that, there is a lot for you to sink your teeth into in

that mini episode, also in the full episode.

But what I want to talk more about here in the bonus episode is Merle Haggard's music,

and even more generally about country music, about classic country music, how many of you

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