Hag:best Of Merle Haggard (2006) (Remastered)

Product Summary Label: Capitol Records UPC: 00094636270425 Release Date: 9/12/2006 Buy.com Sku: 202938660 Item#: M35JRH Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Bottle Let Me Down, The ~ Merle Haggard 2. Branded Man ~ Merle Haggard 3. Sing Me Back Home ~ Merle Haggard 4. Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde, The ~ Merle Haggard 5. Today I Started Loving You Again ~ Merle Haggard 6. Mama Tried ~ Merle Haggard 7. I'm Bringing Home Good News ~ Merle Haggard 8. I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am ~ Merle Haggard 9. Hungry Eyes ~ Merle Haggard 10. Workin' Man Blues ~ Merle Haggard 11. Silver Wings ~ Merle Haggard 12. Okie From Muskogee ~ Merle Haggard 13. Fightin' Side Of Me, The ~ Merle Haggard 14. Someday We'll Look Back ~ Merle Haggard 15. If We Make It Through December ~ Merle Haggard 16. Things Aren't Funny Anymore ~ Merle Haggard 17. Honky Tonk Night Time Man ~ Merle Haggard 18. Old Man From The Mountain ~ Merle Haggard 19. Living With The Shades Pulled Down ~ Merle Haggard 20. I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink ~ Merle Haggard 21. Big City ~ Merle Haggard 22. Pancho and Lefty - (with Wille Nelson) ~ Merle Haggard 23. I'm Leaving Now - (with Johnny Cash) ~ Merle Haggard 24. Runaway Mama ~ Merle Haggard 25. That's The News ~ Merle Haggard 26. She Ain't Hooked on Me No More - (with Toby Keith) ~ Merle Haggard   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info There are perhaps as many as a hundred Merle Haggard compilations out there on labels obscure and well-known. Most of them are crap because they present too few of the great songwriter's works and/or do so in a dodgy manner. Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard, issued by Capitol, isn't one of them. In fact, it just may be the best single-disc representation of the man's music out there. It's true: Capitol released the vast majority of the songs that established Haggard as the true poet of the working man and for starters here, there are 26 cuts on this set. The majority of them come from Capitol of course, but they also chart Haggard's singles on labels like MCA and Epic, as well as his later independent material all the way down to his duet with Toby Keith on "She Ain't Hooked on Me No More" from 2005. The sound is phenomenal, and so is the package, with two sets of liner notes by the venerable Joel Selvin and Haggard's Capitol producer Ken Nelson. There's also a blurb form the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir that murdered a few Haggard tunes back in the day, but don't hold that against him. All the hits are here, from "The Bottle Let Me Down" in 1966 to the killer "Workin' Man Blues" in 1969, to 1973's poignant ballad "If We Make It Through December"; from the Jimmy Bowen-produced "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" in 1980 to his Columbia period, which nailed down the hits "Big City" in 1982 with Lewis Talley and the classic duets with Willie Nelson ("Pancho and Lefty") and Johnny Cash ("I'm Leavin' Now"), to his own "Runaway Mama" and "That's the News," from 2001 and 2003 respectively. Combine that with the Keith duet and you have literally 40 years of music form the man on a single CD. And yeah, the two legendary redneck stompers, "Okie from Muskogee" and "Fightin' Side of Me" are here too because they had to be, but so is "Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde." This is sure to turn anyone who is curious into a Haggard fan. And for those who have everything, this is just a killer mix. 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