Merle Haggard The Boarding House Live Tape #1

Archived track tape of a live performance by American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler Merle Haggard. 7 inches. Box is 7.25'' square.

This tape features a live an unaltered recording of Merle Haggard performing in San Francisco. Unheard and archived since the 1960's, this tape recording features various of his most popular songs.

The "Boarding House Tapes" consist of professional audio of 1960's era live recordings from San Francisco performances and interviews of many of the (soon to be) best-known rock bands, blues artists and historic American folk musicians.The reel-to-reel audiotapes of this performance was stored for the many years during which they were all but forgotten. Until they again came to light this material has not been distributed into commercial markets. These were all local recorded performances. Performed and recorded with the full knowledge and permission of the participating artists and performers at live concerts presented between 1963 and 1968 .

San Francisco at this time was the epicenter of psychedelic music and youth. Most of the concerts took place at the historic Boarding House nightclub which was host to legendary performers such as Neil Young, Patti Smith, and Janis Joplin among many others. Performances and interviews also took place at San Francisco State University and no matter the venue they always catered to loyal audiences with the most authentic musical artists.

Merle Haggard and his band "the Strangers" helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new 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 US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s.

Original box in good condition.