Can’t believe I didn’t find this video 2 years ago or so when I was looking! I wanted to see a live performance of him performing “Rainbow Stew” from back in the 1980s and I found one!
Merle is on great voice here. I love the eyebrows when he says "we don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee". Mark oconnor & tiny moore wow! What's with the guy on tenor guitar- he's really working it. Then Rainbow Stew for a closer for pres Reagan. Just, wow!
This is so cool. When I was listening to Mama Tried, Merle and Bakersfield swing in High School I was also listening Doc Watson, John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner and John Williams (Guitarist of course). Mark brought it all together and bridged the musical genres to provide the soundtrack of my life. But I would be remiss without a shout out to the greatest collaboration of acoustic musicians ever in Strength In Numbers. Look forward to Crossing Bridges at MIM.
8:23 Hah, I thought that was Merle Haggard playing the saxophone until the camera panned back to show the majority of the musicians on the stage at 8:33!
how come i can't find a video of "are the good times really over" from this concert where the audience clammed up at the lyric "nixon lied to us all on tv"? it's hilarious!
What dreadful lyrics from Haggard: Marijuana bad, moonshine good. He must have disapproved of Mark's hair. Great duet with Tiny Moore on Sweet Georgia Brown!
and now no state has more medical marijuana cards per capita than Oklahoma. The big box stores have ruined Main St. Oxycontin and methamphetamine use are rampant. Mainly thanks to the decimation of the middle class that started under Reagan.
I think a certain Mr. Wills would have liked Mark. WoW🎻
Merle was terrific. So is Mark. He has done so well.
Best tenor guitar player ever.
it's funny that the greatest fiddler that ever lived gets to keep his hippy haircut when playing before the President. I'm glad to see it.
Can’t believe I didn’t find this video 2 years ago or so when I was looking! I wanted to see a live performance of him performing “Rainbow Stew” from back in the 1980s and I found one!
Merle is on great voice here. I love the eyebrows when he says "we don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee". Mark oconnor & tiny moore wow! What's with the guy on tenor guitar- he's really working it. Then Rainbow Stew for a closer for pres Reagan. Just, wow!
Reagan gave him a pardon for past crimes when he was governor of California. That’s when Merle admitted to his copious pot use.
Tenor guitar was Jerry Thomason - my father. :)
This is so cool. When I was listening to Mama Tried, Merle and Bakersfield swing in High School I was also listening Doc Watson, John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner and John Williams (Guitarist of course). Mark brought it all together and bridged the musical genres to provide the soundtrack of my life. But I would be remiss without a shout out to the greatest collaboration of acoustic musicians ever in Strength In Numbers. Look forward to Crossing Bridges at MIM.
It's actually fitting that Merle Haggard would perform at the White House as 10 years earlier, he received a pardon form then-Governor Ronald Reagan.
Super cool Mark! I wish you could do this again in the next 8 yrs for history sake.
8:23 Hah, I thought that was Merle Haggard playing the saxophone until the camera panned back to show the majority of the musicians on the stage at 8:33!
Great show!….
Top This Man & I'll KYA.
how come i can't find a video of "are the good times really over" from this concert where the audience clammed up at the lyric "nixon lied to us all on tv"? it's hilarious!
You tube takes out controversy.
Let me know if you ever find it
Would have been bad a$$ if Ron and Nancy started two steppn!
This ain't the White House; its a ranch
So what do you call that Bigsby Instrument that "Tiny" is playing?
5-string electric mandolin
8:47
Absolute bruh moment
White lightning?
Do mesmo jeito que merle ganhou indulto de Reagan porque Silveira não pode né
How About This Singer,m At The White House. . The Big House.. like the hippies UP IN SAN Francisco DO.
What dreadful lyrics from Haggard: Marijuana bad, moonshine good.
He must have disapproved of Mark's hair. Great duet with Tiny Moore on Sweet Georgia Brown!
and now no state has more medical marijuana cards per capita than Oklahoma. The big box stores have ruined Main St. Oxycontin and methamphetamine use are rampant. Mainly thanks to the decimation of the middle class that started under Reagan.
True
satire? not satire? did merle even know?
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This was in California