The Hag's great. A singer's singer. solid writer. Always worked with fine musicians like Roy Nichols on guitar.. He got a lot of his vocal chops from Lefty Frizzel.. if you get a chance, read his autobiography "Mama Tried"... it starts out with him waking up in St. Quentin prison doing time for robbery.. it works it's wake back from there and weaves one hell of an interesting story.

" When a president gets to the Whitehouse and does what he said he'd do
    we'll all be drinkin' that green bubble up and eatin' that rainbow stew"

....still relevant eh ?