Merle Hazard is perhaps best known for his songs about the credit crisis.  He is the first and only country singer to write about mortgage-backed securities, derivatives, and physics.

    NEW: Watch Merle in a segment of the PBS NewsHour (with Jim Lehrer) that ran in January, 2010.

    NEWER:  Merle was part of another PBS NewsHour (with Jim Lehrer) segment in February, 2010.

    Click here for a round-up of links to press coverage of Merle’s songs, including by The Economist, the Financial Times, The New York Times, NPR, Der Spiegel, and more.

    Merle recently performed live at the annual convention of the American Economic Association, Sunday, January 3, 2010, in Atlanta.  Also appearing were the one-and-only stand-up economist Yoram Bauman, Jodi Beggs, from Harvard, and Hugo Mialon, from Emory.  Kenneth West, of U. of Wisconsin, presided.

   The easiest way to keep up with Merle Hazard on an ongoing basis (to get notices of new song releases, mainly) is to join his Facebook fan club:

You can also subscribe to new releases via his YouTube page.

    Or, just email Merle with “Subscribe” in the subject line.  You will get a  no more than a few updates per year, with the main and possibly sole topic being the release of any new songs.  Your email address will definitely not be shared or used for any other purpose.

    The contact for interviews and all other Merle Hazard matters is Jon Shayne at 615-250-1600 in Nashville, Tennessee.  Please feel free to leave a comment in this site’s guest book, which Merle reads, or you may email Merle directly.

   Merle is known to many as “The Man in Beige.”  He should not be confused with one of his country heroes, the singer Merle Haggard.  They are totally separate.  They do not even sing about the same things, for the most part.