Merle Haggard - Running Kind / The Fugitive 

Merle Haggard was the greatest country singer in the world and always will be rest in peace Merle love from a very big big fan from Scotland

Those guitar licks r only MERLE HAGGARD specialists..unmatched even today n its 2023. 4ever l❤❤

Without question, Merle was the GREATEST all-around country music artist/talent to ever walk the face of the Earth. Period. Singer, songwriter, musician, band leader, impressionist. It's a race for SECOND place. Because there's Merle.....and then there's EVERYBODY else.

Unreal- how did we go from this solid country gold to the absolute garbage being pushed on us today? This is music! 🍻

I was at this concert....the people on the bleachers were rock in it and felt like the stadium was going to fall down....his voice was amazing and everybody knew they were witnessing greatness...even Willie couldn't believe it!

American music I'm not sure if we will ever see someone like this again in our lifetime but he was a 1 hell of a story teller that the common man could relate to. God Bless Hag !!!

Merle and I we’re together for 10 years. I produced his concerts and it was great working with him. A genius and a great friend. Bob Eubanks

Merle Haggard the man and truly the king of real country music. Long live the man and his music.

When music was music, nothing better than Merle!!

He sure was born to sing ...oh yes

My brother was at this concert! But now my brother's in heaven listening to the hagg!

All those years ago and it sounds better than anything on the radio today.

If I could only choose one country singer it will always be Haggard! I just love every song

Merle is the one who makes me feel american without being one; who makes me move from my town to a small village; who makes me feel a fugitive in my dream despite of my respect for law in real life... Dear Hagg, I wish I could give you a Hug ...

That voice, that band, that sound, those songs, that crowd, that atmosphere!! AMAZING!!

When I was much younger, me and 8 or 10 of my friends and I would jump on the Motorcycles and go anywhere we had to go to see the Hag in Concert. We chased Merle all over the Western States over the years. Thank you Merle for all of the Good Times... God Bless You Buddy !!!

The best country music singer ever.

Meryl Haggard and Bonnie were brilliant So sad their gone but brilliant their music lives on RIP keep singing in Heaven

My Dad and I sure did love Merle! We would sit on back porch in the dark, I was the record changer, we sang together, loved those nights! Sure do miss them, lost my Dad in 2005!

I love to listen to Merle.I listen to him alot .One of my favorite songs is Farmers daughter.

Merle was the greatest country musician, singer/song writer that ever graced the stage in THE U.S.A. and the world!!! :-)! :-) :-)

Merle Haggard will always be one of my favorites. Love his voice...and he was always so handsome to look at as well! 😄💕💕♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

I’m 25 and my biggest regret in my life so far is not seeing Merle live before he died, no matter how old he would have been. There will never be another one like him. My band gets together every weekend to play his songs. I wish I’d been alive during this time.

still.....Just Awesome all these years ago....Got to Luv the Hag!!!!

I started playing acoustic guitar maybe 10 yrs ago.Never realized Merle had so many great songs. Love playing them Just like all the folks are saying .There's Waylon Willie Hank Jr.Alan Jackson Mr.Strait Vince Gill and too many other who are great.Then there's Merle.

A true legend !!! and this was when country was real and exciting!!!!

Never be another like him. He could sing, write and play at a level no one could equal. And props to Bonnie Owens. Merle said she made him a star.

Merle Haggard and the Strangers. So many great musicians in the band. Roy Nichols guitar licks and solo's. Don't get much better than that. I just about wore out my VHS tape of this concert over the years. Thanks for posting.

I was blessed see Merle perform multiple times and he was a once in a lifetime singer, songwriter and musician and performer. RIP MAESTRO!!!

What a fantastic song. Theirs no one better than Merle!

No one as good as they are can do any justice to any of merles songs, the songs merle goes are meant for him and him alone. Merles voice NEVER changes ever as he ages, sounds just as good

Just doesn't get any better than this! I come back to this video over and over again over the years!

WE NEED MORE COUNTRY MUSIC LIKE MERLE HAGGARD THE BEST GOOD OLD DAYS YES LOVE ITTTTTTT R.I.P. MERLE BUT YOUR MUSIC LIVES ONNNNNN

Great and venerable Merle Haggard and his good and lively band. Great country songs of memorable times that will never come back. I really miss it all. Thank you so much Merle for the beautiful and inspiring songs that made us so good and happy.

merle was one of the best of a dying breed. He always played Lead Guitar and Lead Vocals, thats a hell of alot more than most these so called country stars do now days, all they yell,scream, hide behind their electronics because they cant sing to save their lives and consider themselves country because they were a cowboy hat.. RIP Merle

Bonnie always the the pro, watch her as she sees crowd getting in to it, then imediatetly goes right back to singing backgrond

He was one of a kind!! I loved him!

There will never another Merle Haggard

Good country music Noel and Ben Heggard I like this song Awesome

Merle Haggard country legend!

What great sound for an outdoor concert in 1980! Merle was THE Best!!! I am so thankful for him and his music.

It has been along time but I still love your singing Mr Gorgeous,, God Bless, ❤️❤️❤️🎶❤️

One of the greatest singers.

What a great concert merle may our god bless you always

One of the greats, lot of memories. Thanks🤠🍀

such a great voice, no one will ever top him.

What a beautiful song! Winderful tune, great words, makes such emotion, real feelings, sung by my favorite singer Merle Haggard!

Had this on cassette we wore it out and it broke. So we went to Walmart drunk got another and headed back to the party. My Pop loved Merle I grew up listening to this music. Makes me think of Pop everytime I hear Merle.

Wow Merle making Anaheim Stadium rock! Literally!

One of my favorite singers. I just love his rich baritone sound with his rich vibrato . RIP

Rip hag never be another,still sounds better than anything on the radio today hands down

Mighty Merle rockin’ the stadium with Bonnie Campbell and Ronnie Reno singing the sound behind the Haggard Sound. Little Shannon Marie Burns you see pictured here, was called home to rest eternally with God in his cradeling arms. Singing with Bonnie and Merle as she loved them. And Roy on that lead.

real country music at it best.....

Merle was fabulous that day, just look at the reaction of the crowd. They could not help but want to dance to his great music & that wonderful voice. Even Johnny Paycheck was going wild.LOL!! Thanks for all the work you had to do to post this great moment in the history of country music.

I totally agree 👍 with 469. I remember riding with my father and if the vehicle had a radio it was tuned to a country station,or,at home as well. And that's the way it was in 51, and 1950s decade. So go Merle Haggard.

Merle Haggard is the best.

I had the honor to see him in Watsonville, California in 1983. He was amazing. A true legend forever ❤

Merle Haggard, and Shelley West was my first concert in Tulsa Oklahoma at the ORU Mabee Center 1985. Then I was blessed to get to see him again at the Floating Amphitheater in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1991

You can always tell when its good music when the hair on your neck stands up! 👍

Merle tells us that good music is made with a great voice and great musicians playing along. It is a collective enterprise.

i love how everybody ignores the "for safety purposes please do not dance on the club level" & Merle just keeps 'em jumping and swaying and dancing, u can actually see the level bend up and down!!! 😂😂😂❤ what lovely music!!!

One of the best friends I had in my life. That I never met

This is as good as it gets the great Merle Haggard God Bless Him He is in Heaven!

Through a friend I discovered Haggard Back in the early 70s. I’m a guitarist and it was a Roy Nichols solo that got my Attention. To this day I don’t know why I never saw them live and now he’s gone. RIP HAGG

I discovered Merle in 1980. I fell in love with his music then and there was no turning back!

I wonder if he knew how great we thought he was?

Now here you have Excellent Singing,, Real music honest to god Country,, Amazing sound from my favourite!!!!!👌

So lucky I was able to see Merle before he died in like 2014, he was awesome, a true road warrior

merle haggard,,,still,,,"A LIVING LEGEND!"

I wish I could take a time machine to the "Club Level."

I loved Merle, my Dad and I sang his songs sitting on the back porch!

Great music. Never another Merle.

i've got this concert on vhs (shows how long ago i got it) and it's is an amazing show, Merle at his best. i love the fans bouncing it's amazing, i don't think a sign telling them to stop was ever going to work.

one of the last living legends..long live the Hag!!

I love this live version..crowd is crazy for the Hag!!

R.I.P. Merle. We love ya

Il primo tra i grandi della musica country 💖

I love merle to pieces

Dam that good country music old country love it

Very few performers today can get my feet tappin like listening to some classic Merle

one hell of a singer! love his music, truly a legend!!!!!

beautiful song my favorite

I was driving down a backroad in Montana when the man on the radio said he died. I drove a little farther and thought about it. Then it kinda hit me what a HUGE impact Merle Haggard had had on my life. The songs, the bars and honky tonks, the dancin' and drinkin', and the ladies. The good times and the bad. There isn't one Merle song that doesn't bring on a flood of memories and feelings. Then I realized I couldn't see the road anymore, and I had to pull over. And there I sat, listening to the tribute songs that DJ was playing for Merle, and me.

i love the sound he has a voice you cannot ignore love it

fought for the common man til the day he died, not like these others who stop when they made there fortune

It's sad they'll never be any more music like this in my lifetime

It just to nice to sit and watch theos videos on friday night .i love this song Merle had the voice on country music star i wonder will there ever be real country music legends like merle haggard and George Jones Johnny cash waylon Jennings ed bruce Conway twitte Kenny Rogers Charlie pride willie Nelson times have change just that new tractor rap pop that on country radio station that suck so bad from 1999 country music died if you turn any rocknroll station thay will play old rocknroll ever second so i listen to it quite a bit i just turn the raido of 15 minces CCR was on.country raido wont play nothing i hope in the next coupple years there will be know country music radio stations because thay wont even play even allen jackson and he not even old country singers i will be glad when country music radio stations are gone. Because they wont plat the country legends who made real country music like merle haggard willie Nelson Johnny cash waylon Jennings George strait Keith Whitley hank Williams jr I just listen to them on cd may 1 2021

Best country singer / songwriter/ poet for all us working men and women

Merle and Bonnie at the height of their careers

Biff Adams and Paul English my favorite drummers

I agree - look at the reaction by Haggard's band and roadies to the shaking, and how you can literally see the section moving up and down - praise God there wasn't a major tragedy there that day. BTW, what a great two-song series here.

Great musicians and music!!!!

This is just perfect. What a class country singer. Thanks. Margaret (Scotland)

Merle the Pearl! Love his music...

Merle was the best I saw him on the Poncho and lefty tour ie thank God his sons are carrying on his music they are awesome!!

That's some kick ass footage!! I love seeing a young Bonnie out there having fun!

One of very best for sure .

The man of country . He sounds as good as he ever did .. we will be listening to his music for years to come 💕

Just plain bad ass i love it real country music

Mighty Merle haggard. A nickname never fit anyone any better