Merle is an award-winning, bestselling recording artist. This title takes you on a tour through his house of memories, offering a look inside his turbulent and successful life. It reveals stories about his birth and troubled upbringing in a converted railroad boxcar.

In this riveting personal story, award-winning, bestselling country musicrecording artist Merle Haggard takesyou on a tour through his house ofmemories, offering a fascinating lookinside his turbulent yet successful life.Merle reveals the true stories about hisbirth and troubled upbringing in a convertedrailroad boxcar. He recalls the lossof his father when he was nine, after whichhis childhood disobedience transformedinto full-blown delinquency that eventuallylanded him behind the cold walls ofSan Quentin. He gives tribute to hismother and relives the painful memoryof her death. He shares the lessons helearned from a life shaped by violence, gambling, and drugs, never shying awayfrom the fact that he continues to pay fordecades of reckless living. And he talksabout the music he loves--how, ultimately, it has defined the man he is.

When I started to have to deal with all those things that have to do with real life, that's when Merle's music started to make sense to me."