WILLIE NELSON PLAYED “PANCHO AND LEFTY” ALONE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 33 YEARS. MERLE HAGGARD’S VERSE JUST… STAYED EMPTY. Merle died on April 6th, 2016. His 79th birthday. The exact day.
WILLIE NELSON PLAYED “PANCHO AND LEFTY” ALONE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 33 YEARS. MERLE HAGGARD’S VERSE JUST… STAYED EMPTY. Merle died on April 6th, 2016. His 79th birthday. The exact day. He’d been telling his sons Ben and Noel for a week that he’d die on his birthday. They thought it was the morphine…