Roger Miller - King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller (1995)

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Artist: Roger Miller
Title: King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller
Year Of Release: 1995
Label: Mercury Records
Genre: Country
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:51:51
Total Size: 402 mb | 724 mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD1

01. Roger Miller - My Pillow (Single Version)
02. Roger Miller - Poor Little John (Single Version)
03. Roger Miller - A Man Like Me (Single Version)
04. Roger Miller - The Wrong Kind Of Girl (Single Version)
05. Roger Miller - Jason Fleming (Single Version)
06. Roger Miller - A World So Full Of Love (Original Demo Version)
07. Roger Miller - When A House Is Not A Home (1995 Box Set Version)
08. Roger Miller - You Don't Want My Love (Single Version)
09. Roger Miller - When Two Worlds Collide (Single Version)
10. Roger Miller - Sorry, Willie (Single Version)
11. Roger Miller - So Saith He The Lord (Original Demo Version)
12. Roger Miller - Lock, Stock And Teardrops (Single Version)
13. Roger Miller - Ain't That Fine (Album Version)
14. Roger Miller - Less And Less (1991 Compilation Version)
15. Roger Miller - Chug-A-Lug (Single Version)
16. Roger Miller - Lou's Got The Flu (Album Version)
17. Roger Miller - The Moon Is High (And So Am I) (Album Version)
18. Roger Miller - Dang Me (Single Version)
19. Roger Miller - It Takes All Kinds To Make A World (Album Version)
20. Roger Miller - Reincarnation (Album Version)
21. Roger Miller - Hard Headed Me (Album Version)
22. Roger Miller - Do-Wacka-Do (Single Version)
23. Roger Miller - Atta Boy Girl (Single Version)
24. Roger Miller - Our Hearts Will Play The Music (Album Version)

CD2

01. Roger Miller - King Of The Road
02. Roger Miller - As Long As There's A Shadow (Album Version)
03. Roger Miller - You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd (Single Version)
04. Roger Miller - Heartbreak Hotel (Single Version)
05. Roger Miller - Big Harlan Taylor (Album Version)
06. Roger Miller - One Dyin' And A Buryin' (Single Version)
07. Roger Miller - The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me (Single Version)
08. Roger Miller - It Happened Just That Way (Single Version)
09. Roger Miller - Engine Engine #9 (Single Version)
10. Roger Miller - Kansas City Star (Single Version)
11. Roger Miller - England Swings (Single Version)
12. Roger Miller - I've Been A Long Time Leavin' (But I'll Be A Long Time Gone) (Single Version)
13. Roger Miller - Husbands And Wives (Single Version)
14. Roger Miller - Train Of Life (Single Version)
15. Roger Miller - Dad Blame Anything A Man Can't Quit (Album Version)
16. Roger Miller - You're My Kingdom (Single Version)
17. Roger Miller - My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died (Single Version)
18. Roger Miller - Home (Single Version)
19. Roger Miller - Absence (Album Version)
20. Roger Miller - Ruby (Don't Take Your Love To Town)
21. Roger Miller - Walkin' In The Sunshine (Single Version)
22. Roger Miller - A Million Years Or So (Album Version)
23. Roger Miller - Pardon This Coffin/ Session Soundbite #1 (1995 Box Set Version)

CD3

01. Roger Miller - The Ballad Of Waterhole #3 (Single Version)
02. Roger Miller - Old Toy Trains (Single Version)
03. Roger Miller - Little Green Apples (Single Version)
04. Roger Miller - What I'd Give To Be The Wind (Single Version)
05. Roger Miller - Boeing Boeing 707 (Single Version)
06. Roger Miller - Treat Me Like A Human (1995 Box Set Version)
07. Roger Miller - What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings) (1995 Box Set Version)
08. Roger Miller - Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line (1995 Box Set Version)
09. Roger Miller - Swiss Cottage Place (Album Version)
10. Roger Miller - Me And Bobbie McGee
11. Roger Miller - Where Have All The Average People Gone (Single Version)
12. Roger Miller - The Best Of All Possible Worlds (Album Version)
13. Roger Miller - Invitation To The Blues (Album Version)
14. Roger Miller - Tall Tall Trees (Album Version)
15. Roger Miller - Don't We All Have The Right (Album Version)
16. Roger Miller - That's The Way I Feel (Album Version)
17. Roger Miller - Half A Mind (Album Version)
18. Roger Miller - Hoppy's Gone (Single Version)
19. Roger Miller - What Would My Mama Say (Album Version)
20. Roger Miller - Orange Blossom Special (Live In Reno / 1978)
21. Roger Miller - Old Friends (Single Version)
22. Roger Miller - Guv'Ment (Album Version)
23. Roger Miller - River In The Rain/Session Soundbite #2 (1995 Box Set Version)

The subtitle of Mercury Nashville's three-disc box set King of the Road is "The Genius of Roger Miller," a sentiment that listeners only familiar with his deliberately silly smashes would dispute, but as this three-disc, 70-track set plays out, it becomes clear that this is hardly hyperbole. If genius is a unique voice, either in writing or delivery, Miller certainly qualifies. If genius is an artist who displays a depth and variety of material, Miller fills the bill. If genius is creating a body of work unlike no other, Miller certainly fits the bill. Miller's genius lay in his command of small details, unassumingly witty wordplay, and seemingly effortless songcraft. Apart from "King of the Road," which developed an iconic status separate from his career, his hits were so funny, so easy, that it seemed his music was too light to withstand such an exhaustive retrospective, but that's hardly the case. Miller's hits were often wonderful, often the pinnacle of his talents, but look closer and it becomes clear that they happened to be the songs that were the singles; he often wrote songs that could have been as big as his hits, but weren't released as singles, or were tucked away on records to be discovered by diligent fans. It's a testament to his talent that not all of these are featured on this otherwise comprehensive box set; the 1991 Country Tunesmith collection alone contains many great songs that could have made the cut. They are missed, as are Miller's brilliant songs from Walt Disney's 1973 animated adaptation Robin Hood ("Not in Nottingham" is as lovely as anything he's done), but that doesn't mean that King of the Road doesn't work as a retrospective it just means that, like other great artists, he has more than enough great music to fit onto three CDs. The three CDs are filled with wonderful music -- songs that prove Miller is one of the great country songwriters, capable of songs wrenching in either their humor or pain, and one of the most distinctive voices in the genre. Needless to say, it's essential to any serious country collection.

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