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Playlist: The Very Best of Merle HaggardMerle Haggard
Release Date: 08/26/2008
Original Release:
2008
# of Discs:
1
J&R Item # 1037707_CD
UPC # 886972733623
Label: Legacy Recordings
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Disc: 1
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Big City
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Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)
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Someday When Things Are Good
4.
Yesterday's Wine With George Jones
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Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
6.
Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room
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I Always Get Lucky With You
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That's The Way Love Goes
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Going Where The Lonely Go
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Place To Fall Apart, A
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I Had A Beautiful Time
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My Favorite Memory
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Pancho And Lefty
14.
Okie From Muskogee's Comin' Home, The
Performer: Merle Haggard
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution ( Notes: Sony/BMG's PLAYLIST series features concise compilations of great American artists, sporting eco-friendly packaging and focusing on the work the artists have done for labels that fall under the Sony/BMG umbrella. The Merle Haggard PLAYLIST COLLECTION centers on his latter-day work for Epic, and shows that there was more to the Hag's story than just the Bakersfield sound. With fuller production and more sophisticated songcraft, tunes like "Are the Good Times Really Over" and "That's the Way Love Goes" stand as solid entries in his storied canon.
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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Influences:
Acuff, Roy Cash, Johnny Collins, Tommy Frizzell, Lefty Guthrie, Woody Miller, Emmett (Country) Phosphorescent Presley, Elvis Rodgers, Jimmie (Country) Tubb, Ernest Williams, Hank Wills, Bob Work, Jimmy
Similar Genres:
Bakersfield
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