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Apr 6, 1958
"I turned 21 in prison doin' life without parole..." Merle Haggard isn't incarcerated permanently, but he is behind bars at San Quentin as he reaches the legal age, a date he brands indelibly when he writes the country classic "Mama Tried"
Jun 18, 1958
Merle Haggard has a son, Marty, born in Bakersfield, California, while Merle is in prison. Marty charts five songs in the 1980s, though none of them emerge as hits
Sep 5, 1958
David Allan Coe is released from Chillicothe Reformatory in Ohio after serving two years for stealing a car
Jan 1, 1959
Johnny Cash performs at San Quentin prison for an audience that includes Merle Haggard. The set list naturally includes "Folsom Prison Blues"
Aug 27, 1959
Chuck Berry--the author of future hits for Emmylou Harris, George Jones and Buck Owens--is arrested in Meridian, Mississippi, when a white girl at a fraternity dance kisses him. The African-American rocker is jailed overnight and fined $700
Jan 1, 1960
Johnny Cash performs at San Quentin Prison in California
May 2, 1960
Convicted sex offender Caryl Chessman is executed at San Quentin. Fellow inmate Merle Haggard, who communicated with him during a stay in isolation, knows Chessman is dead when he sees a puff of smoke go up from the Death Row chimney
May 13, 1960
Freddy Fender is arrested for possession of marijuana in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He spends the next three years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola
Nov 3, 1960
Merle Haggard is released from San Quentin Prison and allowed to complete the more than two years remaining of his sentence on parole
Apr 6, 1961
Spade Cooley suffers a heart attack, three days after strangling and beating his wife to death. As a result, he's transferred from Bakersfield's Kern County Jail to Kern County General Hospital
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