Suzy Bogguss has been at the top of country music charts with songs such as, “Aces,” “Drive South,” and “Someday Soon,” and released an album of Merle Haggard covers in 2013.

Bogguss didn’t set out to craft a Merle Haggard tribute record. Some might call that serendipity; she just calls it “Lucky.”

“Merle Haggard is a hell of a storyteller,” says Bogguss. “When I hear his songs, I feel like I’m listening in on someone’s life.”

On her new album, “Lucky,” a collection of songs all written by Haggard, Bogguss does more than just listen—the CMA, ACM and Grammy Award-winning singer makes the country rebel’s compositions her own, reinterpreting classics like “The Bottle Let Me Down,” “Silver Wings,” and “Today I Started Loving You Again,” from a female point of view.

“Merle is one of the most masculine songwriters I’ve ever heard, and I’ve been watching boys cover his music for years. I just thought, ‘Why couldn’t a girl do this?’” Bogguss says.

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