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* DamnedByFaintPraise: Happened in real life. Haggard had escaped from prison several times before going to San Quentin (in fact, that was part of reasoning behind him being sent there), and was immediately placed on the closest tier of custody there was, meaning if he wasn't at his job or a meal, he had to stay in his cell (the irony being that getting sent to San Quentin had woken him up and made him decide to get out of crime). He would note in his autobiography that, given he was asked to go along with one of the few-ever successful breakouts, that this was justified.
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* DamnedByFaintPraise: Happened in real life. Haggard had escaped from prison several times before going to San Quentin (in fact, that was part of reasoning behind him being sent there), and was immediately placed on the closest tier of custody there was, meaning if he wasn't at his job or a meal, he had to stay in his cell (the irony being that getting sent to ending up in San Quentin had woken given him up a reality check and made him decide to get out of crime). He would note in his autobiography that, given he was asked to go along with one of the few-ever successful breakouts, that this was justified.
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* DamnedByFaintPraise: Happened in real life. Haggard had escaped from prison several times before going to San Quentin (in fact, that was part of reasoning behind him being sent there), and was immediately placed on the closest tier of custody there was, meaning if he wasn't at his job or a meal, he had to stay in his cell (the irony being that getting sent to San Quentin had woken him up and made him decide to get out of crime). He would note in his autobiography that, given he was asked to go along with one of the few-ever successful breakouts, that this was justified.
-->''I was almost amused, and yeah, a little flattered, that they would even consider me an escape risk. As it turned out, their fears were justified. I could have escaped. I had the opportunity and I could have made it.''
-->''I was almost amused, and yeah, a little flattered, that they would even consider me an escape risk. As it turned out, their fears were justified. I could have escaped. I had the opportunity and I could have made it.''
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Haggard passed away on his 79th birthday while recovering from pneumonia.
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Haggard [[DiedOnTheirBirthday passed away on his 79th birthday birthday]] while recovering from pneumonia.
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* SelfPlagiarism: He wasn't too ashamed to reuse musical elements from his earlier hits in later songs. An interesting case is "If We're Not Back in Love By Monday" sounding like a rewritten "If We Make It Through December", since Haggard didn't write "Monday".
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* CoverAlbum: The self-explanatory ''Same Train, A Different Time: Merle Haggard Sings the Great Songs of Music/JimmieRodgers'' (1969), ''A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills)'' (1970), ''My Farewell to [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]]'' (1977, though it has one original, "From Graceland to the Promised Land") and ''The Way It Was In '51'' (1978), a joint tribute to two of his obvious influences, Music/HankWilliams and Lefty Frizzell, but again with a Haggard-penned keynote song in the TitleTrack.
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* CoverAlbum: The self-explanatory ''Same Train, A Different Time: Merle Haggard Sings the Great Songs of Music/JimmieRodgers'' (1969), ''A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills)'' (1970), ''My Farewell to [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]]'' (1977, though it has one original, "From Graceland to the Promised Land") and ''The Way It Was In '51'' (1978), a joint tribute to two of his obvious influences, Music/HankWilliams and Lefty Frizzell, but again with a Haggard-penned keynote song in the TitleTrack.two Haggard originals.
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* CoverAlbum: The self-explanatory ''Same Train, A Different Time: Merle Haggard Sings the Great Songs of Music/JimmieRodgers'' (1969), ''A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills)'' (1970), ''My Farewell to [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]]'' (1977, though it has one original, "From Graceland to the Promised Land") and ''The Way It Was In '51'' (1978), a joint tribute to two of his obvious influences, Music/HankWilliams and Lefty Frizzell.
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* CoverAlbum: The self-explanatory ''Same Train, A Different Time: Merle Haggard Sings the Great Songs of Music/JimmieRodgers'' (1969), ''A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills)'' (1970), ''My Farewell to [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]]'' (1977, though it has one original, "From Graceland to the Promised Land") and ''The Way It Was In '51'' (1978), a joint tribute to two of his obvious influences, Music/HankWilliams and Lefty Frizzell.Frizzell, but again with a Haggard-penned keynote song in the TitleTrack.
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* CoverAlbum: The self-explanatory ''Same Train, A Different Time: Merle Haggard Sings the Great Songs of Music/JimmieRodgers'' (1969), ''A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills)'' (1970) and ''My Farewell to [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]]'' (1977, though it has one original, "From Graceland to the Promised Land").
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* CoverAlbum: The self-explanatory ''Same Train, A Different Time: Merle Haggard Sings the Great Songs of Music/JimmieRodgers'' (1969), ''A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills)'' (1970) and (1970), ''My Farewell to [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]]'' (1977, though it has one original, "From Graceland to the Promised Land").Land") and ''The Way It Was In '51'' (1978), a joint tribute to two of his obvious influences, Music/HankWilliams and Lefty Frizzell.
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* ChronologicalAlbumTitle: ''Merle Haggard Presents His 30th Album'' in 1974. He cheated a bit on the numbering, though, since it was only his 17th studio album, so to get to 30 he counted a [[LetsDuet duet album]] with his then-wife Bonnie Owens, four live albums (one of them devoted to GospelMusic), the aforementioned ''Merle Haggard's Christmas Present'', two [[GreatestHitsAlbum Greatest Hits Albums]], and five instrumental albums by his band The Strangers that weren't really Haggard albums as such, but since they were released under his banner, he included them in the tally.
