question: Who was the father of a country singer who recorded "Trains Make Me Lonesome"?
answer: Merle Haggard
context: Title: Kōenji Station
  Passage: Kōenji Station (高円寺駅, "Kōenji-eki") is a railway station on the Chūō Main Line in the Kōenji neighborhood in Suginami, Tokyo.  The station, on a four-track section, is served by local and rapid services (not including special rapid services and other fast trains) of the Chūō Main Line on weekdays.  On weekends, only local trains make stops at this station.
  Title: Marty Haggard
  Passage: Marty Haggard (born June 18, 1958) is an American country music singer.  He is the son of singer-songwriter Merle Haggard.  Between 1981 and 1987, Haggard charted five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts, in addition to performing in his father's road band.
  Title: Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
  Passage: The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers (1938- 1966) were an early bluegrass band which included such notable "first generation" bluegrass musicians as Ezra Cline, Bobby Osborne, Paul Williams, Melvin Goins, Charlie Cline, Curly Ray Cline, Larry Richardson and for a short time Jimmy Martin.  The group was started by Ezra Cline and Curly Ray Cline and was originally named "Cousin Ezra and the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers".  The Clines came from a large family consisting of musically talented people.  Ray and Charlie's father, Charlie, was a talented banjo player and the women in the family, Geraldine and Bobbi, were great singers.  For reasons unknown, Bobbi and Geraldine never joined the band on the road but often joined in at home, especially when notable Country singers, such as Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and Hank Williams, came visiting.  None of them ever had a music lesson yet excelled on every instrument they touched.  Natives of the Gilbert Creek region of southern West Virginia, Cousin Ezra, along with brothers Ireland (Lazy Ned) and Curly Ray Cline, were part of the original Lonesome Pine Fiddlers from about 1938, a group that worked on radio at WHIS Bluefield, West Virginia.  During World War II, Ned was killed in action.  When the Pine Fiddlers resumed regular daily broadcasts, Charlie, who played multiple instruments, joined them on a regular basis.  Charlie returned to the Fiddlers briefly before becoming a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys.  During 1952-1955, Charlie worked off and on with Monroe, recording some 38 songs, all on Decca.  It has been said that he played every instrument at one time or another in the Monroe group except mandolin.  Charlie spent most of 1953 back with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers working at WJR radio in Detroit.  When Ezra brought the band to Pikeville, Kentucky, in November, Charlie rejoined Bill Monroe.  In 1954, Charlie did a session, playing lead guitar, with the Stanley Brothers and also another one on RCA with the Fiddlers, although he was not otherwise working with them at the time.  He also worked briefly as a sideman with the Osborne Brothers, although he did not record with them.  By 1958, Charlie (electric lead guitar) and his wife, Lee (electric bass), had rejoined Ezra and Curly Ray in the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, who were experimenting with a more modern sound and working a TV show in Huntington, West Virginia, in addition to daily radio in Pikeville.  In his later years, Charlie was with the Stanley Brothers.  Curly Ray also played with the Stanley Brothers at a different time as their fiddler.  Curly Ray was one of the best fiddlers in Bluegrass.  This most talented family of musicians were the best, surpassed by none.  Finally, on October 1, 2009, The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers got their due when they were inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame at the Ryman Theater (the original home of the Grand Ole Opry).  Bobby Osborne, Melvin Goins and Paul Williams were there to receive the bands award.  In the crowd of a sold out theater was the son of Ezra Cline, Scotty Ireland Cline, who recalled being in that same theater as a child sitting on stage and watching the Fiddlers play.  (At the time, the Opry had bleachers for family just off stage).  The final act of the evening at the IBMA Awards was the playing of "Pain in my Heart" by Osborne, Goins and Williams along with a Song from the Dillards, who were also inducted the same evening.
  Title: Express trains in India
  Passage: Mail/Express trains are Regular Express rail services of India.  Express trains make a small number of stops, unlike Passenger/Local trains.  In some cases, trains run express where there is overlapping local train service available, and run local at the tail ends of the line, where there is no supplemental local service.  Because of their limited stops, these trains are able to obtain the highest speeds of any trains in India.
  Title: Elmhurst station (Illinois)
  Passage: Elmhurst is a Metra commuter railroad station in downtown Elmhurst, a western suburb of Chicago.  It is served by the Union Pacific/West Line, and lies 15.7 mi from the eastern terminus.  Trains go east to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far west as Elburn, Illinois.  Travel time to Ogilvie ranges from 39 minutes on local trains to 26 minutes on express trains, as there are some trains that go non-stop between Elmhurst and Chicago.  Evening peak trains make the run between Ogilvie and Elmhurst in as little as 24 minutes.  Some weekday outbound trains end their trips at Elmhurst.
  Title: Mjølfjell
  Passage: Mjølfjell is a village area located in the eastern part of the Raundalen valley in the municipality of Voss in Hordaland county, Norway.  Mjølfjell is served by the train station on the Bergensbanen railway line, Mjølfjell Station, both local trains from Voss and (less frequently) the Bergen to Oslo express trains make regular stops there.  Mjølfjell has a grocery store, a chapel, and a military training facility.  There are about 500 cabins in the area that are used for vacationers.
  Title: Holding My Own
  Passage: Holding My Own is the twelfth studio album by Texan country music singer George Strait.  It was released by MCA Records and features the singles "Gone as a Girl Can Get" and "So Much Like My Dad", both of which charted in the Top 5 on the country charts.  "Trains Make Me Lonesome" was previously recorded by the trio Schuyler, Knobloch, & Overstreet on their self-titled debut album, and before that by Marty Haggard.
  Title: John R. Cash
  Passage: John R. Cash is the 51st overall album by country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1975 on Columbia Records.  It consists mostly of covers of other musicians' songs.  The first track on the album, a song titled "My Old Kentucky Home", is not the state song of Kentucky, but a composition by Randy Newman which had been previously recorded by the Osborne Brothers in 1970 and Three Dog Night in 1972; Cash's version, like that of the Osborne Brothers five years previous, was released as the second single from the album, though the previously issued single "The Lady Came from Baltimore" had achieved greater success on the charts, reaching #14.  The Cash original "Lonesome to the Bone" had previously appeared on "Ragged Old Flag" (1974) and would make one more appearance on "Silver" (1979).
  Title: So Doggone Lonesome
  Passage: "So Doggone Lonesome" is a song written by country singer Johnny Cash.  He and his band (The Tennessee Two) recorded the song in a studio session at Sun Records studios at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee; the session took place on July 30, 1955, when the trio also recorded "Luther Played The Boogie" (a homage to the group's lead guitarist, Luther Perkins) and "Mean Eyed Cat", the latter of which Cash reprised on his Unchained album for Rick Rubin's American Recordings.
  Title: Express train
  Passage: Express trains (also sometimes referred to as fast trains, though this is a relative term, usually meaning "faster than some other trains on the line in question") are a form of rail service.  Express trains make only a small number of stops, instead of stopping locally.  In some cases, trains run express where there is overlapping local train service available, and run local at the tail ends of the line, where there is no supplemental local service.  During overnight hours, or other times where it is practical, express trains may become local, but still running to where an express train would terminate.
citations: Marty Haggard Holding My Own