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MERLE HAGGARD Hag: The Studio Recordings 1969-1976 (2008) (RMST) (DLX) (BEAR) NEW 6CD + BOOK
Hag: The Studio Recordings 1969-1976 (2008) (RMST) (DLX) (BEAR) (6PC, With Book, Boxed Set)
Merle Haggard
Label: Bear Family
Release Date: 4/1/2008
UPC: 790051678227
Product Description:
Merle Haggard was a groundbreaking artist in many ways. He was one of the first country artists to see the LP as more than one hit and some filler songs. After his initial success, he devoted a lot of time and creative energy to 'concepts' that interested him, including live albums, tribute albums, gospel albums, and The Strangers' instrumental albums. The third and final box set in Bear Family's documentation of Merle Haggard's Capitol recordings includes all of these 'concepts.' This is some of the finest music from Merle Haggard's 45 year career. Fans and critics agree on that. The box includes the Jimmie Rodgers tribute double album from 1968 and the Bob Wills tribute album from 1970 for which Haggard reunited many of Wills' original Texas Playboys. There are three exciting live albums, including one of the best selling country albums of all time, OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE - LIVE IN MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. There is the ambitious LAND OF MANY CHURCHES gospel project, for which Haggard recorded revival-style gospel music in backwoods Baptist churches, San Quentin, a Nashville rescue mission and a California Pentecostal church. The set also includes the complete Strangers instrumental output...all of the songs from their five 'solo' albums plus many unreleased surprises, featuring knockout playing from Roy Nichols on guitar and Norm Hamlet on steel guitar.
This 6-CD LP-sized boxed set (with 120-page hardcover book) captures an artist using his success to take his art in new directions. This is the real Merle Haggard: traditionalist, iconoclast, but above all musician.
Track Listing:
Disc 1: (CD)
1. I'd Rather Be Gone - 2:35
2. Montego Bay - 2:54
3. I Die Ten Thousand Times a Day - 3:03
4. California on My Mind - 2:39
5. California Cotton Fields - 2:47
6. White Line Fever - 2:47
7. I Came So Close to Failure - 2:50
8. Workin' Man Blues - 2:34
9. The Sea Shores of Old Mexico - 3:42
10. Okie from Muskogee - 2:43
11. If I Had Left It Up to You - 2:57
12. Streets of Berlin - 2:49
13. Huntsville - 3:07
14. Train of Life - 2:42
15. They're Tearing the Labor Camp Down - 2:11
16. The Fightin' Side of Me - 2:53
17. I Wonder What She'll Think About Me Leaving - 3:19
18. No Reason to Quit - 2:36
19. Jesus, Take a Hold - 2:17
20. I Ain't Got Nobody - 2:10
21. New York City Blues - 2:36
22. One Row at a Time - 3:07
23. Shelly's Winter Love - 3:22
24. I'll Be a Hero When I Strike - 2:02
25. If You've Got Time (To Say Goodbye) - 2:52
26. I'm a Good Loser - 2:40
27. I Can't Be Myself - 2:52
28. I've Done It All - 2:14
29. One Sweet Hello - 2:46
Disc 2: (CD)
1. Worried, Unhappy, Lonesome and Sorry - 2:45
2. Somewhere in Between - 2:27
3. The Sidewalks of Chicago - 2:30
4. The Farmer's Daughter - 2:56
5. Tulare Dust - 1:48
6. When the Feelin' Goes Away - 2:55
7. Soldier's Last Letter - 2:11
8. The Only Trouble with Me - 3:10
9. Make Believe - 3:02
10. Big Time Annie's Square - 2:34
11. You're the Only Girl in the Game - 2:55
12. The Conversion of Ronnie Jones - 2:45
13. Carolyn - 2:33
14. It's Great to Be Alive - 2:18
15. Someday We'll Look Back - 2:30
16. Somewhere in Between - 2:28
17. My Heart Would Know - 2:49
18. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) - 3:19
19. Goodbye Comes Hard for Me - 2:42
20. The Man Who Picked the Wildwood Flower - 3:24
21. You Don't Love Me (But I'll Always Care) - 3:19
22. This Cold War with You - 2:56
23. Irma Jackson - 2:55
24. Recitation: The Proudest Fiddle in the World (A Maiden's Prayer) - 2:20
25. Turnin' off a Memory - 2:46
26. Grandma Harp - 3:08
Disc 3: (CD)
1. They're Tearin' the Labor Camps Down - 3:29
2. Bill Woods from Bakersfield - 3:12
3. Old Doc Brown - 3:25
4. A Shoulder to Cry On - 3:01
5. The Funeral - 3:17
6. Bring It on Down to My House, Honey - 2:51
7. Combine Blues - 2:29
8. Blues Stay Away from Me - 2:16
9. Tired of Your Understanding Ways - 2:20
10. Hag's Dixie Blues #2 - 2:51
11. I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me) - 2:42
12. Moanin' the Blues - 2:05
13. Don't Let the Deal Go Down - 2:23
14. Stingeree - 4:04
15. Lovesick Blues - 2:36
16. Blues for Dixie - 2:39
17. I Forget You Every Day - 2:51
18. A Shoulder to Cry On - 3:10
19. I Know an Ending When It Comes - 3:10
20. Dad's Old Fiddle - 2:51
21. I'm a White Boy - 2:03
22. I Wonder Where I'll Find You at Tonight - 2:08
23. My Woman Keeps Lovin' Her Man - 2:33
24. It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) - 3:20
25. Somewhere to Come When It Rains - 2:57
26. My Woman Keeps Lovin' Her Man - 2:42
Disc 4: (CD)
1. I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me - 3:03
2. To Each His Own - 2:28
3. I Wonder What She'll Think About Me Leaving - 3:11
4. I'm an Old, Old Man (Tryin' to Live While I Can) - 2:32
5. I'd Never Told on You - 3:01
6. I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me - 2:50
7. I Forget You Every Day - 3:10
8. Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now) - 2:46
9. If We Make It Through December - 2:42
10. I'll Break out Tonight - 2:52
11. Love and Honor Never Crossed Your Mind - 2:50
12. This Is the Song We Sing - 2:46
13. There's Just One Way - 2:51
14. The Emptiest Arms in the World - 2:53
15. Come on into My Arms - 2:43
16. Radiator Man from Wasco - 2:05
17. Uncle Lem - 2:56
18. Daddy Won't Be Home Again for Christmas - 3:04
19. Bobby Wants a Puppy for Christmas - 2:13
20. Silent Night - 2:29
21. Winter Wonderland - 2:31
22. White Christmas - 2:28
23. Silver Bells - 3:21
24. Jingle Bells - 2:21
25. Grandma's Homemade Christmas Card - 1:51
26. Santa Claus and Popcorn - 2:14
Disc 5: (CD)
1. White Man Singin' the Blues - 1:57
2. Better off When I Was Hungry - 2:25
3. Things Aren't Funny Anymore - 2:43
4. That's the Way Love Goes - 2:34
5. Got a Leter from My Kid Today - 2:29
6. Honky Tonk Night Time Man - 2:38
7. A Man's Got to Give Up a Lot - 2:34
8. The Girl Who Made Me Laugh - 2:40
9. No More Trains to Ride - 3:12
10. Holding Things Together - 2:59
11. So Long Train Whistle - 4:08
12. September in Miami - 2:38
13. A King Without a Queen - 2:43
14. It Don't Bother Me - 2:27
15. Travelin' - 2:09
16. Don't Give Up on Me - 2:22
17. Here in 'Frisco - 2:30
18. Railroad Lady - 2:53
19. Old Man from the Mountain - 2:20
20. Mirrors Don't Lie - 3:05
21. Movin' On - 2:15
22. The Seeker - 2:52
23. Kentucky Gambler - 2:41
24. You'll Always Be Special to Me - 2:33
25. Life's Like Poetry - 2:32
26. I've Got a Darlin' (For a Wife) - 2:46
27. These Mem'ries We're Making Tonight - 3:04
28. The Hobo - 2:42
29. The Coming and the Going of the Trains - 4:19
30. My Love Affair with Trains - 3:12
31. The Silver Ghost - 3:20
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