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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Mama Tried
2. Sing a Sad Song
3. Swinging Doors
4. I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
5. Branded Man
6. Sing Me Back Home
7. Legend of Bonnie and Clyde, The
8. Hungry Eyes
9. Workin' Man Blues
10. Silver Wings - (with Jewel)
11. Okie From Muskogee
12. Fightin' Side of Me, The
13. Daddy Frank
14. Carolyn
15. It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
16. Everybody's Had the Blues
17. If We Make It Through December
18. Old Man From the Mountain
19. Things Aren't Funny Anymore
20. Movin' On - (with Brooks & Dunn)
21. Always Wanting You
22. It's All in the Movies
DISC 2:
1. Roots of My Raisin', The
2. Cherokee Maiden
3. Ramblin' Fever - (with Alabama)
4. I'm Always on a Mountain When I Fall
5. It's Been a Great Afternoon
6. Footlights
7. Way I Am, The
8. Misery and Gin
9. I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
10. Rainbow Stew
11. My Favorite Memory
12. Big City
13. Pancho and Lefty - (with Willie Nelson)
14. Are the Good Times Really Over
15. Going Where the Lonely Go
16. Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room
17. Place to Fall Apart, A
18. That's the Way Love Goes - (with Jewel)
19. Natural High
20. Kern River
21. Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star
Album Notes
FOR THE RECORD contains new recordings of Merle Haggard's hits.
Personnel: Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson (vocals, guitar) Jewel, Alabama, Brooks & Dunn (vocals); Abe Manuel (guitar, mandolin, fiddle, accordion, percussion, background vocals); Tim Howard, Terry Hardesty, Freddy Powers, Clint Strong, Red Lane, Red Volkaert (guitar); Norm Hamlett (steel guitar, dobro); John Hickman (banjo); Mark Howard (harmonica); Don Markham (saxophone, trumpet, background vocals); Floyd Domino, Doug Colosio, Bobby Wood (piano, keyboards); Joe Reed, Eddie Curtis (bass); Biff Adam, Terry Dominque (drums); Bonnie Owens, Teresa Lane, Debbie Parret, Al Brumley, Jr.
(background vocals).
Principally recorded at Tally Studio, Palo Cedro, California. Includes liner notes by Wade Jessen.
What Bob Dylan is to rock & roll, Merle Haggard is to country music. As Dylan built on what Chuck Berry, Leadbelly, and Woody Guthrie did before him to influence several generations, Haggard did the same, by building on the foundations laid by Hank Williams, George Jones, and the influential but little-heard Wynn Stewart. His sound has never strayed far from country music's roots (while also absorbing influence from jazz and blues) yet stays contemporary in the way all great songwriters do: by telling stories about life in achingly human terms. This 2-CD set has all of Haggard's hits and best-known songs, mostly written by him, re-recorded in 1999 with his touring band and some special guests. Lefty Frizzell's "That's the Way Love Goes" and the Haggard-penned classic "Silver Wings" are sung with Jewel and "Movin' On" with Brooks & Dunn. Haggard peer Willie Nelson plays guitar throughout. For fans, it's a chance to get all the old favorites in one place. For the curious, it's a way to get a superb survey of Haggard in full digital glory.
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