When you've lost Merle Haggard...

Listen to Rebuild America First by Merle Haggard (scroll down to find link after clickthru).

MERLE HAGGARD. Merle "Okie from Moskogee" Haggard.

(From Meredith Och of NPR's 2005 top 10 CD list. Worth checking out, although I just don't see what the fuss over The Decemberists is about.)