Merle Haggard Cancels Shows Due to Illness

Country in concord picture Merle Haggard has canceled the be supported of his September schedule of shows due to illness.

 

Haggard publicist Tresa Redburn says Haggard has a coffer infection and is doing well. The 73-year-old had surgery because lung cancer customary 2008 but she make known the illness is unrelated.

 

Haggard is touring customary feed of his current album, "I Am What I Am," his sans pareil commercial enterprise record in decades.

 

He will receive Kennedy Center Honors and temperament be inducted into the California Hall of Fame in December.

 

Haggard has canceled 10 concert dates. It's unclear albeit he'll return on the road, passing over his website shows and dates organize for November.

 

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