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Merle Haggard tips his hat to the crowd as he begins to perform on the Palomino Stage on the first night of the sold-out three-day Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club Friday, April 24, 2015 in Indio, Calif. Haggard died on April 5, 2016, on his birthday. He was 79. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
