“Today I Started Loving You Again”
Written by Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens
RADNEY FOSTER: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
AL PERKINS: Pedal Steel Guitar
NIOSHI JACKSON: Drums
RICK CUA: Bass
PAT BERGESON: Guitar
Merle Haggard was an American country singer, songwriter and guitarist. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the twang of the Fender Telecaster mixed with the sound of the pedal steel guitar, vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville sound recordings of the same era. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number-one hits on the U.S. country charts. Over the years, Haggard received many honors and awards, including a Kennedy Center Honor, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, a BMI Icon Award, and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Country Music Hall of Fame and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
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