| Product Summary | | Label: Time Life Music | | UPC: 00610583216820 | | Release Date: 11/6/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 205815054 | | Item#: M3TNSV | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 27033 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Sing A Sad Song ~ Merle Haggard |  | | 2. (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers ~ Merle Haggard | | | 3. Fugitive, The - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 4. Swinging Doors - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 5. I Threw Away the Rose - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 6. Bottle Let Me Down, The - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 7. Branded Man - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 8. Today, I Started Loving You Again - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 9. Sing Me Back Home - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 10. Legend of Bonnie and Clyde, The - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 11. Mama Tried - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 12. I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 13. Workin' Man Blues - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 14. Hungry Eyes - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 15. Okie From Muskogee - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 16. Someday We'll Look Back - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 17. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 18. Carolyn - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 19. Grandma Harp - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 20. It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | Disc 2
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Fightin' Side of Me, The - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 2. I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 3. Kentucky Gambler - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 4. Everybody's Had the Blues - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 5. If We Make It Through December ~ Merle Haggard | | | 6. Old Man From the Mountain - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 7. Things Aren't Funny Anymore - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 8. Movin' on (Theme From the NBC-TV Series Movin' On) - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 9. Always Wanting You - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 10. Roots of My Raising, The - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 11. It's All in the Movies - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 12. Cherokee Maiden - (with Merle Haggard & The Strangers) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 13. If We're Not Back In Love By Monday ~ Merle Haggard | | | 14. Rambin' Fever ~ Merle Haggard | | | 15. I'm Always On A Mountain When I Fall ~ Merle Haggard | | | 16. It's Been A Great Afternoon ~ Merle Haggard | | | 17. Way I Am, The ~ Merle Haggard | | | 18. I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink ~ Merle Haggard | | | 19. Misery And Gin (From the Original Soundtrack Of Clint Eastwood's Bronco Billy) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 20. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again ~ Merle Haggard | | Disc 3
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Big City ~ Merle Haggard | | | 2. My Favorite Memory ~ Merle Haggard | | | 3. Yesterday's Wine - (with George Jones) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 4. Going Where The Lonely Go ~ Merle Haggard | | | 5. You Take Me For Granted ~ Merle Haggard | | | 6. Pancho and Lefty - (with Willie Nelson) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 7. That's The Way Love Goes ~ Merle Haggard | | | 8. Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room ~ Merle Haggard | | | 9. Someday When Things Are Good ~ Merle Haggard | | | 10. Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star ~ Merle Haggard | | | 11. What Am I Gonna Do (With the Rest Of My Life) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 12. Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 13. Natural High - (with Janie Fricke) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 14. Out Among The Stars ~ Merle Haggard | | | 15. Place to Fall Apart, A - (with Janie Fricke) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 16. Lonesome Day ~ Merle Haggard | | | 17. Wishing All These Old Things Were New ~ Merle Haggard | | | 18. America First ~ Merle Haggard | | | 19. Some of Us Fly - (with Toby Keith) ~ Merle Haggard | | | 20. Haggard (Like I've Never Been Before) ~ Merle Haggard | |
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Additional personnel: George Jones, Janie Fricke, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson. | | Liner Note Authors: Colin Escott; Robert Price; Mike Jason. | | Photographers: Colin Escott; Phyllis Owen. | | A number of Merle Haggard box sets preceded this one to fruition, among them 1996's four-disc,100-track Down Every Road, as comprehensive and essential a collection of country music as you're ever likely to hear. At three discs and 60 tracks, Time Life's Legends of American Music: The Original Outlaw admittedly doesn't offer as much Hag, but in its own way it's just as valuable as the earlier release, and might be preferable for those who don't want their Hag spread quite so thin but who would still like a bit more than the 40 tracks offered by Razor & Tie's 1995, 40-track The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology (1963-1977). Like Down Every Road, The Original Outlaw takes a look not only at the biggest hits of Haggard's career, although those are all of course accounted for. It launches with two pre-fame singles Haggard cut for the small Tally label in 1964-1965, before signing to Capitol, "Sing a Sad Song" and "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers." From there it devotes roughly half of its contents to those Capitol sides before moving on to Haggard's MCA output of the late '70s and his recordings for Epic, Anti and his own Hag Records in the subsequent decades. All that's absent -- and no one will really miss it -- is some representation of Haggard's early-'90s stint with Curb, a period that produced no memorable hits whose omission would cause a red flag to be raised only by completists. Haggard's post-Capitol recordings would, for any other artist, still amount to a body of work to be praised and envied: MCA and Epic singles such as "Big City," "Pancho and Lefty" (with Willie Nelson) and "Yesterday's Wine" (with George Jones) are formidable, and the samplings of his rootsy 21st century releases should send those unfamiliar with them scurrying to catch up with what Haggard's been up to, as they've all been excellent additions to his canon. In the end, though, it'll still be those Capitol recordings that will define Merle Haggard and, to some extent, the direction in which country music turned once he arrived -- even the most die-hard fan will never tire of hearing that string of more than 20 number one hits Haggard gave the label. All of them are here -- the landmarks like "Okie from Muskogee," "Working Man's Blues," "The Fightin' Side of Me," "Mama Tried," "Daddy Frank," "If We Make It Through December" -- as well as a couple that "only" scraped into the Top Five: "I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am" and "Someday We'll Look Back." Arranged in rough, but not strict, chronological order, the set amply demonstrates Hag's evolution as both songwriter and interpreter of those songs, and restates the case for him as one of country music's greatest contributions to the American musical lexicon -- not that that wasn't obvious already. ~ Jeff Tamarkin |
Producer: Ken Suesov; Willie Nelson; Hank Cochran; Billy Sherrill; Bob Montgomery; Lewis Talley; Lou Bradley; Ray Baker; Merle Haggard; Jimmy Bowen; Ken Nelson; Chips Moman; Mike Post; Tommy Garrett; Charles Owen; Charles "Fuzzy" Owen; Ken Suesov; Don Gant; Willie |
| | Compilation Appearances |
| | Associated Artists and Works | | Artists, Various | | Tulare Dust: A Songwriters' Tribute To Merle... ~ Artists, Various | | Hats Off! A Tribute To Merle Haggard ~ Artists, Various | | Jones, George | | Nelson, Willie | | Nelson, Willie | | Last Of The Breed ~ Nelson, Willie | | Nelson, Willie | | Live from The Last of the Breed Tour ~ Nelson, Willie | | Pickin' on Merle Haggard: A Tribute ~ On, Pickin' | | Pickin' On Merle Haggard ~ Pickin' On | | Smith, Chester | | Twitty, Conway | | Twitty, Conway | | Twitty, Conway | | Twitty, Conway | | Various Artists | | Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard ~ Various Artists | | Hats Off: A Tribute to Merle Haggard ~ Various Artists | | Old Loves Never Die ~ Williams, Leona | | Williams, Leona |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 11/06/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 19506 | | Label : Time/Life Music | | Number of Discs : 3 | | Runtime : 183m : 44s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00610583216820 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.136)
- 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Hag's Bakerfield country dust is still a revelatory sound: sweet acoustic guitar up top, mean drums below."No Depression (p.p.97)
- "As the succession of eclectic, timeless and life-filled songs on these discs remind us, what Haggard has been, and has been accepted as for decades, is one flexible, knowing, challenging song maker who never fails to entertain..." |
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