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THE SEQUEL ME & MERLE

A CHRONOLOGIZED MEMOIR TRILOG​Y

By Buffalo Benford Standley

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​Forgot where I read, or heard that we are all born in the middle of a story in history then spend a good part of our life trying to figure out where we came in.  Willie Nelson said, “My dreams are dreaming me.” Dylan said, “I am just trying to be me, whoever that is.” Merle Haggard sang, “Some of us fly, Some of us fall.”  A song he wrote after a chat with Bob Dylan on Dylan's bus in Chicago during the  the BOB DYLAN & MERLE HAGGARD TOUR in 2005. My adventure, writing and filming the life and times of two of the greatest in show business history, Merle Haggard and Jimmie Rodgers, has been a passion that has possessed me for most of my adult life.  Their stories are told against the backstory of the history of "show business?"  Back to 1850s to 1893 and Buffalo Bill Cody’s first Wild West Show and after decades of medicine and minstrel shows evolving to canvas theaters.​

SOME OF US FLY