The Legendary Merle Haggard

The Legendary Merle Haggard

ASIN: B000000USI

Track Listings

1. If We Make It Through December

2. I'm Always on a Mountain When I Fall

3. It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)

4. Always Wanting You

5. It's All in the Movies

6. Bottle Let Me Down

7. Things Aren't Funny Anymore

8. It's Been a Great Afternoon

9. I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink

10. From Graceland to the Promised Land

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For the Record: 43 Legendary Hits
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Wonderful Collection

Hag, you disappoint me man

A Wonderful Ripoff

Remakes

Re-recordings. Avoid like the plague!

For the Record: 43 Legendary Hits
Merle Haggard
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music
Honky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music
Western Swing | Country | Styles | Music
General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music
Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music
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Tracks:

Mama Tried
Sing A Sad Song
Swinging Doors
I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
Branded Man
Sing Me Back Home
The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde
Hungry Eyes
Workin' Man Blues
Silver Wings
Okie From Muskogee
The Fightin' Side Of Me
Daddy Frank
Carolyn
It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
Everybody's Had The Blues
If We Make It Through December
Old Man From The Mountain
Things Aren't Funny Anymore
Movin' On
Always Wanting You
It's All In The Movies

Tracks:

The Roots Of My Raisin'
Cherokee Maiden
Ramblin' Fever
I'm Always On A Mountain When I Fall
It's Been A Great Afternoon
Footlights
The Way I Am
Misery And Gin
I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
Rainbow Stew
My Favorite Memory - (newly recorded version)
Big City
Poncho And Lefty
Are The Good Times Really Over
Going Where The Lonely Go
Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room
A Place To Fall Apart
That's The Way Love Goes
Natural High
Kern River
Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star

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History occurs twice, first as tragedy, later as farce--or so the adage goes. With these new versions of old classics, Merle Haggard is somewhere between defying and fulfilling that fate. Some cuts are like faded carbon copies; others, given Hag's stately quaver, have a mellow poignancy; a few, like the duets with Jewel, Brooks & Dunn, and Alabama, are simply irrelevant. But just when you're ready to dismiss such misguided revisionism, there's a refreshed, superlative version of "Pancho and Lefty" and the perfected heartbreak of "Going Where the Lonely Go." To his credit, Haggard sticks with his long-running road band, and it's hard to imagine anyone else delivering these songs with more authority, more emotional insight. Anyone, that is, save their original interpreters: Merle Haggard and the Strangers of the '60s and '70s, whose definitive work can still be heard on collections like the four-CD Down Every Road and double-disc Lonesome Fugitive. Haggard may never make records that great again, but perhaps he'll find a new, and not redundant, way to harness his timeless gifts. --Roy Kasten

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful Collection.......2007-03-13

All of the great hits in one collaboration. His duets with Jewel are priceless and should not be missed.

Hag, you disappoint me man.......2006-08-27

There's something wrong with a process where you (or someone you trust) believe that you can show up in a studio 30 years after the fact and fool your audience into accepting one-take counterfeits as "43 Legendary Hits."

When you recorded these hits, YOU MADE HISTORY--Your fans knew it, bought your records, and rewarded you for it.

This is an insult to your audience.

Have some self-respect. If you want to continue to make a mark, act like a real artist and do what Johnny Cash did: Give us something NEW, something FRESH, something that will knock our socks off, like "Hurt".

If you want to retire, then RETIRE ALREADY. Nobody will hold it against you, and I for one wish you the absolute best. But for gosh sakes, if this is the best scheme you can come up with, then please stay home and keep your trap shut.

A Wonderful Ripoff.......2006-01-28

Like many others, I was fooled by this cd. About all the Haggard I'd heard was Mamma Tried and Oakie from Muskogee, so I was looking forward to exploring his work. When Mamma Tried fired up, I realized this was a remake and in a fit of rage I tossed the cd into the back of my closet. Time passed. I realized that I still hadn't heard this man's work, and that I had this cd. So I played it.

What a revelation. The man is great. He has a wonderful voice, an awesome band, great tunes and amazing lyrics. This is a wonderful cd. I am looking forward to hearing the originals, and if they are better than this, then I will be truely blessed.

Remakes.......2005-08-13

A few years ago, Merle Haggard sat down and remade almost all of his biggest hits in a mamoth recording session. Now all of these songs are spreading around to every cheap record company who repackages them.

Be careful, everything here is remakes.

Re-recordings. Avoid like the plague!.......2005-06-06

I bought this CD set thinking the songs were the original recordings. I was wrong. I still respect Merle, and think he's still making wonderful contributions to real country music, but . . . he just didn't have the original strength & punch of his original recordings. It's like listening to Johnny Cash sing "Hurt," and imagining him singing Folsom Prison Blues in the same voice -- painful.

Avoid, avoid, avoid.

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Manufacturer: cema
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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