Country music great Haggard hospitalized with pneumonia

NASHVILLE, Tenn

(Reuters) - Country song good

Merle Haggard

has been certified to a Georgia sanatorium pang from pneumonia and deferred a rest of his unison dates in January, his mouthpiece pronounced on Wednesday.

Haggard, 74, entered a Macon sanatorium on Tuesday night after he canceled a uncover in that Georgia city 7 mins before he was to take a theatre since he was too ill to perform, pronounced

Frank Mull

, his debate manager and tighten friend.

A member of a Country Music Hall of Fame, Haggard is best famous for songs including "

Mama Tried

," "Okie from Muskogee" and "The Fightin' Side of Me."

Haggard had been scheduled to perform again on Wednesday night in

Columbus, Georgia

, though that uncover and a rest of a Jan line-up will be rescheduled for April, according to Haggard's Los Angeles-based publicist

Tresa Redburn

.

Redburn pronounced a thespian was receiving fluids intravenously. She pronounced she spoke with Haggard by write "and he sounded flattering good."

Haggard will take time off to redeem and resume his debate in February, Redburn said. Haggard lives in Northern California.

The thespian was indisposed when he left his California home to start a tour, though did not wish to defect his fans, Mull said. "He suspicion he was good adequate to work and he did work 3 dates, and he got gradually worse," Mull said.

With influences trimming from Lefty Frizzell to Bob Wills to Jimmie Rodgers, Haggard is an designer of nation music's "Bakersfield Sound."

(Editing by Paul Thomasch and Will Dunham)

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