Merle Haggard - Down Every Road 1962-1994 (1996)
Artist: Merle Haggard
Title: Down Every Road 1962-1994
Year Of Release: 1996
Label: Capitol Nashville
Genre: Country
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 04:44:34
Total Size: 650 mb | 1.5 gb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Down Every Road 1962-1994
Year Of Release: 1996
Label: Capitol Nashville
Genre: Country
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 04:44:34
Total Size: 650 mb | 1.5 gb
WebSite: Album Preview
CD1
01. Merle Haggard - Skid Row
02. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Sing A Sad Song
03. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - You Don't Even Try
04. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Sam Hill
05. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
06. Bonnie Owens - Just Between The Two Of Us
07. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - If I Had Left It Up To You
08. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
09. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Swinging Doors
10. Merle Haggard - The Bottle Let Me Down
11. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - High On A Hilltop
12. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - I'll Look Over You
13. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - The Fugitive
14. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - House Of Memories
15. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - All Of Me Belongs To You
16. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Mary's Mine
17. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Someone Told My Story
18. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Go Home
19. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Whatever Happened To Me
20. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive
21. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - I Threw Away The Rose
22. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Branded Man
23. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - You Don't Have Very Far To Go
24. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Somewhere Between
25. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Sing Me Back Home
26. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp
27. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Seeing Eye Dog
CD2
01. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde
02. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Today I Started Loving You Again
03. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Is This The Beginning Of The End?
04. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - I'll Always Know
05. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Mama Tried
06. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
07. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Teach Me To Forget
08. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - I'm Looking For My Mind
09. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - The Day The Rains Came
10. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - California Blues (Blue Yodel #4)
11. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
12. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - I'm Bringin' Home Good News
13. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - I Can't Hold Myself In Line
14. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - It Meant Goodbye To Me When You Said Hello To Him
15. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Hungry Eyes
16. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Silver Wings
17. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Waitin' For A Train
18. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (The Women Make A Fool Out Of Me)
19. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - California Cottonfields
20. Merle Haggard - White Line Fever
21. Merle Haggard - Working Man Blues
22. Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee
23. Merle Haggard - I Can't Stop Loving You (Live)
24. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Huntsville
25. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Irma Jackson
26. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - The Fightin' Side Of Me
27. Merle Haggard - I'll Be A Hero (When I Strike)
CD3
01. Merle Haggard - Right Or Wrong (Down Every Road Version)
02. Merle Haggard - Trouble In Mind
03. Merle Haggard - Stay A Little Longer
04. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - The Farmer's Daughter
05. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Tulare Dust
06. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Carolyn
07. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Someday We'll Look Back
08. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
09. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Grandma Harp
10. Merle Haggard - It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
11. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - I Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me (1972 Version)
12. Merle Haggard - If We Make It Through December
13. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - The Emptiest Arms In The World
14. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Everybody's Had The Blues (Live Rehearsal)
15. Merle Haggard - Things Aren't Funny Anymore
16. Merle Haggard - Honky Tonk Night Time Man
17. Merle Haggard - Holding Things Together
18. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Here In Frisco
19. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Kentucky Gambler
20. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Always Wanting You
21. Merle Haggard - Living With The Shades Pulled Down
22. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Running Kind
23. Merle Haggard - It's All In The Movies
24. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - The Way It Was In '51
25. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - I Never Go Around Mirrors
26. Merle Haggard & The Strangers - What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana
CD4
01. Merle Haggard - If We're Not Back In Love By Monday (Single Version)
02. Merle Haggard - Ramblin' Fever
03. Merle Haggard - It's Been A Great Afternoon (Album Version)
04. Merle Haggard - Red Bandana
05. Merle Haggard - Footlights
06. Merle Haggard - My Own Kind Of Hat
07. Merle Haggard - Misery And Gin (From The "Clint Eastwood's Bronco Billy " Soundtrack)
08. Merle Haggard - Leonard
09. Merle Haggard - I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
10. Merle Haggard - Rainbow Stew (Live At Anaheim Stadium/1981)
11. Merle Haggard - Big City
12. Merle Haggard - Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)
13. Merle Haggard - You Take Me For Granted
14. Merle Haggard - Pancho & Lefty
15. Merle Haggard - That's The Way Love Goes
17. Merle Haggard - Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room
18. Merle Haggard - Kern River
19. Merle Haggard - Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
20. Merle Haggard - In My Next Life
Haggard’s tough country sound was born in Bakersfield, California, a.k.a. Nashville West. His songs are full of drifters, fugitives, and rogues, and this four-disc set — culled from his seminal recordings for Capitol as well as MCA and Epic — is the ultimate collection from one of country’s finest singers. Songs like “Mama Tried” and “All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers” are archetypal statements of lonely tough-guy individualism, and like James Brown’s Star Time, the quality stays rock solid over four CDs.
Merle Haggard is a rarity: a complex artist whose rich scope can accurately be summarized through singles, but who has far more great material than can be fit on one or two discs. Which, of course, makes him the perfect candidate for a box set, and Capitol released the first comprehensive Hag retrospective in 1996 with the four-disc set Down Every Road. Since Haggard has such a rich, consistent body of his work the best of his MCA and Epic periods, two eras that are covered here, hold their own next to his seminal Capitol material even four discs leave behind many a great song, yet only those who already own all the albums would argue about omissions, because this offers a generous 100 songs, spanning from his earliest work for Talley in the early '60s to his Epic sides of the late '80s, containing all of his big hits and an expert selection of album tracks, such as "Tulare Dust," "Holding Things Together," and "Living With the Shades Pulled Down," that reveal the depth of his music. This is a body of work with few peers in all of popular music the variety of styles and sounds, his ease on freewheeling Western swing and plaintive ballads, his inventive, nuanced originals and expert ear for material, his supple voice and underrated guitar playing, and the support from his brilliant band, the Strangers, all add up to one of the greatest catalogs in 20th century music. And while you can get the basics from Razor & Tie's excellent double-disc set The Lonesome Fugitive, only Down Every Road captures the full extent of his gifts, in a way that is compulsively listenable as well. It's not just the perfect Merle Haggard box set, it's one of the greatest box sets ever released as well, since it truly presents all sides of its subject, while offering nothing but sheer pleasure in terms of mere listening. Plus, this is the only place to find some of these great songs, including the aforementioned trio of album tracks, on CD, which makes it necessary for those who already own the albums.
Merle Haggard is a rarity: a complex artist whose rich scope can accurately be summarized through singles, but who has far more great material than can be fit on one or two discs. Which, of course, makes him the perfect candidate for a box set, and Capitol released the first comprehensive Hag retrospective in 1996 with the four-disc set Down Every Road. Since Haggard has such a rich, consistent body of his work the best of his MCA and Epic periods, two eras that are covered here, hold their own next to his seminal Capitol material even four discs leave behind many a great song, yet only those who already own all the albums would argue about omissions, because this offers a generous 100 songs, spanning from his earliest work for Talley in the early '60s to his Epic sides of the late '80s, containing all of his big hits and an expert selection of album tracks, such as "Tulare Dust," "Holding Things Together," and "Living With the Shades Pulled Down," that reveal the depth of his music. This is a body of work with few peers in all of popular music the variety of styles and sounds, his ease on freewheeling Western swing and plaintive ballads, his inventive, nuanced originals and expert ear for material, his supple voice and underrated guitar playing, and the support from his brilliant band, the Strangers, all add up to one of the greatest catalogs in 20th century music. And while you can get the basics from Razor & Tie's excellent double-disc set The Lonesome Fugitive, only Down Every Road captures the full extent of his gifts, in a way that is compulsively listenable as well. It's not just the perfect Merle Haggard box set, it's one of the greatest box sets ever released as well, since it truly presents all sides of its subject, while offering nothing but sheer pleasure in terms of mere listening. Plus, this is the only place to find some of these great songs, including the aforementioned trio of album tracks, on CD, which makes it necessary for those who already own the albums.
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