Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Navarre Corp.
• VHS Release Date: June 27, 1990
• ASIN: 6302423228
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #394,097 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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A concert documentary with the on-a-budget production values and straight-shooter presentation of Poet of the Common People better have a magnetic subject. Of course, no one ever accused cantankerous country maverick Merle Haggard of lacking charisma. Here's one of the incontestable giants of the genre working his way through a slew of his classic tunes, including "Kern River," "Mama Tried," "Silver Wings," and "Workin' Man Blues." Interspersed between concert footage are interview segments in which a somewhat reluctant Hag emits bits of homespun philosophy and recites lyrics that prove that the title of this serviceable video is no idle boast. --Steven Stolder