Saturday, February 18, 2012

Country star Merle Haggard repeat again after illness

(Reuters) - legend of music Country Merle Haggard is repeated with his group of long date, The Strangers, and prepares to return to the road after having been ousted by a bout of pneumonia and other conditions.

Haggard, 74, was hospitalized on 17 January, after illness requires him to cancel a show in times of just the Georgia before taking the stage. Doctors treating for double pneumonia in a hospital in Macon more later discovered a number of other conditions.

"I feel good and ready to go back on the bus," Haggard said Wednesday in a statement released by his publicist based in Los Angeles Tresa Redburn.

"Thanks to all for their powerful prayers that led to my speedy recovery." "I am repeats with the Group and look forward to Playin'TV ' and sing again," said Haggard.

His first show will be February 28 at the Fox Theatre in Tucson, Arizona. The dates of January he had to postpone his illness will be composed in April, Redburn said.

Even after physicians had his thinning pneumonia, singer remained in the hospital for several days to recover after eight polyps were removed from his colon and for the treatment of ulcers of the stomach and diverticulitis in his esophagus, which all have been discovered by the medical staff of Macon, three said Redburn.

Upon his release, Haggard credited Macon medical team for probably saving my life."

Known for songs such as "Mama tried", "Okie from Muskogee" and "the Fightine side of Me, the members of the Country Music Hall of Fame was released from the hospital in Macon on 26 January and stole home in Northern California to continue convalescence.".

With influences ranging from Lefty Frizzell to Bob Wills to Jimmie Rodgers, Haggard is an architect of so-called "Bakersfield Sound." country music

(Editing by Cynthia Johnston)


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