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MUSIC<br />
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Jed Hilly<br />
An Americana Life<br />
by Karen Parr-Moody<br />
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o a few months ago Jed Hilly was about to mow his lawn. It was a<br />
Saturday like any other, and—b-r-r-ring!—Merle Haggard rang<br />
him up. Hilly didn't know Merle. ey weren't buds or work associates.<br />
But there it was, Haggard on the line.<br />
<br />
He said, `Is this Jed? is is Merle.'” Hilly<br />
looks freshly dumfounded when recounting<br />
the tale. “I guessed his last name.<br />
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PHOTO: ANTHONY SCARLATI<br />
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26 | March 2O11 |<br />
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L TO R: John Levinthal, Rosanne Cash, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jed Hilly<br />
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PHOTO: KAY WILLIAMS<br />
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