Merle Haggard Is Dead — and No, That ‘Hippy’ Bob Dylan Did NOT Hate Him
Don’t call Bob Dylan a hippy. Ever. Longtime country music bad boy Merle Haggard, who died Wednesday on his 79th birthday, found that out the hard way last year. In February, 2015, as the Jewish folk singing legend accepted the MusicCares lifetime achievement award, Dylan, 74, said something about the born again Haggard that many…