“When Two Generations of Country Hold Their Heads High: Merle and Toby Take a Trip to ‘Ramblin’Fever’” At Sing Me Back Home (2004) at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, the stage fell silent as two of country’s biggest names took the stage — Merle Haggard, the Bakersfield legend, and Toby Keith, the new generation’s true country man. As the guitar riffs kicked in, Merle smiled, looking at Toby like a comrade after decades of fighting. The melody of “Ramblin’Fever” — a song filled with feelings of travel and wandering — flowed through Merle’s voice, then Toby continued it in his deep, Texas-tinged voice
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