Razor & Tie's 1995 collection The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology (1963-1977) is the gold-standard among Hag collections, containing 40 songs from his classic years at Capitol Records (plus a couple of early singles originally released on Tally, later acquired by Capitol). While there are two box sets -- Capitol's essential Down Every Road and Bear Family's excellent complete recordings, Untamed Hawk -- this is the only hits collection to be both comprehensive and concise, containing all the big hits and major songs on one compulsively listenable collection. It's not just that this has all the hits, since it does, it's that the collection chronologically follows his charting singles from 1963's "Sing a Sad Song" to 1977's "A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today," skipping only a couple of mid-'70s hits toward the end, adding the timeless "Today I Started Loving You Again" on the first disc, thereby offering a streamlined summary of his period of greatest creativity and commercial success. While Haggard certainly has many terrific, even classic, songs from the 15 years covered here that didn't make the cut, the hits -- and every song outside of "Today I Started Loving You Again" charted, including a staggering 22 country number ones -- illustrate his growth as both a songwriter and musician and constitute one of the greatest bodies of work in American popular music. It's possible to dig deeper -- and most serious listeners owe it to themselves to dig deeper, acquiring either or both of the aforementioned boxes, along with proper albums -- but this not only serves as an ideal introduction, it's a perfect summary of Haggard's work and a necessary cornerstone of any country collection. (by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic)
trax CD 1:
01 Sing A Sad Song 02 Sam Hill 03 Just Between The Two Of Us 04 (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers 05 I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can 06 Swinging Doors 07 The Bottle Let Me Down 08 The Fugitive 09 Someone Told My Story 10 I Threw Away The Rose 11 Branded Man 12 Sing Me Back Home 13 The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde 14 Today I Started Loving You Again 15 Mama Tried 16 I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am 17 Hungry Eyes 18 Workin' Man Blues 19 Okie From Muskogee 20 The Fightin' Side Of Me
trax CD 2:
01 Street Singer 02 Jesus, Take A Hold 03 I Can't Be Myself 04 Sidewalks Of Chicago 05 Soldier's Last Letter 06 Someday We'll Look Back 07 Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) 08 Carolyn 09 Grandma Harp 10 It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) 11 I Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me 12 Everybody's Had The Blues 13 If We Make It Through December 14 Things Aren't Funny Anymore 15 Old Man From The Mountain 16 Kentucky Gambler 17 It's All In The Movies 18 The Roots Of My Raising 19 Cherokee Maiden 20 A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today
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MERLE HAGGARD "The Lonesome Fugitive"
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Thanks
Simply the best. Ever.
Iggy
Great collection. Many thanks!
Merle was one of the C&W greats. Thanks!
Chi-Town
Elvis Country (Legacy Edition) [Extra Tracks] (2012)
CD1
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CD2
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Disc: 1
1. Snowbird
2. Tomorrow Never Comes
3. Little Cabin On The Hill
4. Whole Lot-ta Shakin' Goin' On
5. Funny How Time Slips Away
6. I Really Don't Want To Know
7. There Goes My Everything
8. It's Your Baby, You Rock It
9. The Fool
10. Faded Love
11. I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
12. Make The World Go Away
13. I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago
14. A Hundred Years From Now (studio jam)
15. Where Did They Go, Lord
Disc: 2
1. Love Letters
2. When I'm Over You
3. If I Were You
4. Got My Mojo Working/Keep Your Hands Off Of It
5. Heart Of Rome
6. Only Believe
7. This Is Our Dance
8. Cindy, Cindy
9. I'll Never Know
10. It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)
11. Life
12. The Sound Of Your Cry
13. Sylvia
14. Rags To Riches
Elvis Country (Legacy Edition) [Extra Tracks] (2012)
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Recorded in 1970 and released in 1971, Elvis Country was the culmination of a remarkable career resurrection. Starting with his 1968 Comeback Special, Elvis went on to reel off the brilliant From Elvis in Memphis (and the second-helping, Back in Memphis), the smartly constructed Vegas show of On Stage, and the studio/live That's the Way It Is. He capped the run with this 1971 return to his roots, branding these country, gospel, blues, rockabilly and western swing covers with authority. Elvis showed his genius was rooted in his passion for music, which encompassed everything from the early rockabilly of Sanford Clark's "The Fool" (written, surprisingly, by Lee Hazlewood) to the then-contemporary hit "Snowbird," as well as classics from Ernest Tubb, Lester Flatt & Bill Monroe, Willie Nelson and Hank Cochran.
Recorded in RCA's famed Studio B with Presley regulars James Burton, Charlie McCoy and Chip Young; the newly assembled studio hands included several players from the Muscle Shoals powerhouse, and the sessions were produced by Felton Jarvis. The arrangements ranged from loose, down home country jams to Vegas-styled orchestrations, and hearing the variety back-to-back, one quickly realizes how easily Elvis transcended the musical boundaries between his `50s roots and his glitzy `70s stage shows. Much like the 1969 American Studio sessions in Memphis, Elvis' enthusiasm and musicality directs the assembled players and provokes top-notch performances; he leads the crew through a rocking workout of Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and brings "Tomorrow Never Comes" to a volcanic climax.
The original album tracks are knit together with snippets of "I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago," a gimmick that some listeners find irritating, and which wreaks havoc on shuffle play; the complete take is included in the bonuses. An earlier CD reissue expanded the track count from twelve to eighteen, and this double-CD pushes the total to twenty-nine, including all six earlier bonuses. Disc two opens with the third-helping of the Nashville sessions, previously released as Love Letters from Elvis, and adds three more session bonuses: the singles "The Sound of Your Cry" and "Rags to Riches," and the album track "Sylvia." The broad range of material on Love Letters doesn't always connect with Elvis' legacy as tightly as that on Elvis Country, but Elvis is in fine voice on each track, and the assembled players are sharp.
Everything here's been issued before, but pulling together session material previously spread across singles, albums, box sets and latter-day compilations has created a superb recounting of the last chapter of Elvis' incredible comeback. Not included are the eight Nashville tracks released as part of That's the Way It Is. A third-disc with banded versions of Elvis Country (minus the musical segues, that is) would have been a great addition, but even without it, this is an excellent expansion upon previous standalone reissues, and a terrific complement to the Legacy editions of From Elvis in Memphis and On Stage. The remastered discs (by Vic Anesini) are housed in a tri-fold digipack with a booklet that includes liner notes by Stuart Colman and terrific photos. [©2012 hyperbolium dot com]
ELVIS COUNTRY is Bonus for today.
@Chi-Town: what you mean "was"? I saw the man last year in concert with Kris Kristofferson, and Merle was every bit as good as ever. Kris, on the other hand, did his best, but the altitude was playing heck with his (already somewhat weak) voice. Speaking of which, there are some great shows of Kris and Friends (including Rita Coolidge and many other greats) from the early 70's on FM radio. Anyone who doesn't have some of that should get them...classic laid back live FM performances. Peace! and Thanks!
Thanks from Me
thanks a lot
Thanks from me, too, guys.
WoW!
Thanks for the MH comp!
Thanks for both
Always a bit put off by his rightwing views but got to admit there's a big chunk of songs in the middle of disc 1 that are just sublime.
Ta
J
Good Day Ryp and Gyro...any chance of re-up on this great collection from Merle?
Greatly appreciated if possible.
THANKS!
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