{"id":56001,"date":"2016-04-10T17:31:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T22:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=56001"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:31:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T22:31:59","slug":"56001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/10\/56001\/","title":{"rendered":"Merle and Loretta Had Plans for a 2016 Duets Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-56002\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/merlehaggard-001.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"MerleHaggard 001\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/merlehaggard-001.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/merlehaggard-001-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/merlehaggard-001-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/merlehaggard-001-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn Had Plans for a Duets Album<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h2 class=\"subtitle\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>The Country Legend Passed Away Before It Could Happen<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Merle Haggard passed away Wednesday (April 6) at the age of 79, but leading up to his death he was just as creatively active as ever. In 2015, he and Willie Nelson released the duets album Django and Jimmie, and, according to Loretta Lynn, the Hag had even more legendary collaborations in\u00a0mind.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging interview forLoretta\u2019s recent Nash Country Weekly cover story, the 83-year-old country icon revealed that she and Merle also had ideas for a duets album, but scheduling conflicts kept the project from\u00a0happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Merle Haggard,\u201d she toldNCW while aboard her tour bus in February. \u201cMe and Merle was gonna do an album together, but we just haven\u2019t sat down long enough to get it done. He\u2019s on one end of the country while I\u2019m on another, and it\u2019s hard for us to get\u00a0together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Merle passed away following a battle with pneumonia on his birthday, and that planned album never came to\u00a0pass.<\/p>\n<p>On Facebook, Loretta posted this remembrance of her departed\u00a0friend:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, friends, the world lost one of the greatest singer\/songwriters of all time, Merle Haggard,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMy heart is broken. Sending prayers and love to his family. Merle has been my friend for over 40 years. We traveled many miles and performed many shows together. I can\u2019t imagine country music without Merle Haggard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Nash Country Weekly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn Had Plans for a Duets Album The Country Legend Passed Away Before It Could Happen Merle Haggard passed away Wednesday (April 6) at the age of 79, but leading up to his death he was just as creatively active as ever. In 2015, he and Willie Nelson released the duets album Django and Jimmie, and, according to Loretta Lynn, the Hag had even more legendary collaborations in\u00a0mind. In a wide-ranging interview forLoretta\u2019s recent Nash Country Weekly cover story, the 83-year-old country icon revealed that she<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/10\/56001\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}