If you watched Ken Burns’ 16-hour “Country Music” documentary when it came out in 2019, you might’ve been wishing that every legend whose life flashed by too fast could get his or her own breakout, but Merle Haggard most of all. The singer-songwriter, who died in 2014, could frankly use a little help on the immortality front, especially if there’s a danger of the novelty song “Okie From Muskogee” becoming the one tune he’s remembered by … a fate that might be slightly worse than total cultural erasure.

Thankfully, he’s found that posthumous benefactor he needed in Ethan Hawke , whose “ Highway 99 : A Double Album” does Haggard right and then some — although if you’re a true-blue fan, you may think that even a three-hour-plus running time isn’t quite enough. Launched at the Tellurid

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