Legends Of American Music: Merle Haggard The Original Outlaw [Box]Merle Haggard
Release Date: 11/06/2007
Original Release:
2007
# of Discs:
3
J&R Item # 1005621_CD
UPC # 610583216820
Label: Time/Life Music
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Disc: 1
Disc: 2
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Movin' on (Theme From the NBC-TV Series Movin' On) - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers)
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Misery and Gin (From the Original Soundtrack of Clint Eastwood's Bronco Billy)
Disc: 3
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Performer: Merle Haggard
Producer: Charles "Fuzzy" Owen; Ken Suesov; Don Gant; Willie Nelson; Hank Cochran; Billy Sherrill; Bob Montgomery; Lewis Talley; Lou Bradley; Ray Baker; Merle Haggard; Jimmy Bowen; Ken Nelson; Chips Moman; Mike Post; Snuff Garrett; Colin Escott (Compilation) Distributor: WEA (Distributor) Notes: Additional personnel: George Jones, Janie Fricke, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson.
Rolling Stone (p.136) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Hag's Bakerfield country dust is still a revelatory sound: sweet acoustic guitar up top, mean drums below."
No Depression (p.p.97) - "As the succession of eclectic, timeless and life-filled songs on these discs remind us, what Haggard has been, and has been accepted as for decades, is one flexible, knowing, challenging song maker who never fails to entertain..."
Along with Buck Owens and Wynn Stewart, Merle Haggard created the Bakersfield country sound of the '60s, emphasizing two-part harmonies, tasty guitar solos, catchy choruses and a no-frills approach to production. To this, the singer/songwriter/guitarist adds his own jazzy Western swing touches. His distinctly proletarian lyrics alternate between classic honky-tonk barroom laments and the celebration of the blue-collar working man. Like many country stars of the '60s and '70s, Haggard slipped off the mainstream radar in the '80s and '90s, but made a Johnny Cash-like "comeback" with the poignant, sparsely produced IF I COULD ONLY FLY in 2000.
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Bandy, Moe Black, Clint Butler, Carl Curless, Dick Derailers (The) Dudley, Dave Earle, Steve Frazier, Dallas Hobart, Rex Jackson, Alan Jennings, Waylon Kirchen, Bill McCall, C.W. Nelson, Willie Owens, Buck Red Meat Rich, Charlie Robbins, Marty Simpson, Red Stewart, Wynn Travis, Randy Tritt, Travis Twitty, Conway Watson, Dale Wayne, Dallas Yoakam, Dwight
Influences:
Acuff, Roy Cash, Johnny Collins, Tommy Frizzell, Lefty Guthrie, Woody Phosphorescent Presley, Elvis Rodgers, Jimmie (Country) Tubb, Ernest Williams, Hank Wills, Bob Work, Jimmy
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