Merle Haggard

Haggard and Cash performing on television in the 1970s.

Haggard ran into Johnny Cash in the men’s room before a TV appearance in Chicago in 1963. As they stood at the urinal, Cash asked if they’d met before. Haggard said no, but that he was in the audience at San Quentin in 1959: “I told him, ‘You came in there, left, and my life changed.’ ”