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I'm A Lonesome Fugitive | Merle Haggard | 03:06 | |
Same Old Train | Marty Stuart, Earl Scruggs, Clint Black, Joe Diffie | 06:01 | |
Always Wanting You | Merle Haggard | 03:07 | |
Mama Tried | Merle Haggard | 02:14 | |
Pancho and Lefty | Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson | 04:48 | |
Missing Ol' Johnny Cash | Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard | 03:26 | |
Big City | Merle Haggard | 02:59 | |
Workin' Man Blues | Merle Haggard & The Strangers | 02:35 | |
The Bottle Let Me Down | Merle Haggard | 02:48 | |
I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am | Merle Haggard | 02:49 |
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Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver) | |
Someday When Things Are Good | |
Yesterday's Wine |
One of the great country music outlaws, Merle Haggard stands as a rebel soul with a swaggering purr and a killer turn of phrase. Raised in Oildale, California, his father's death when Merle was nine resulted in his teenage years being spent in and out of juvenile detention centres. His wild lifestyle continued when he was imprisoned in San Quentin for three years, but he turned his life around upon release and found success when his version of Wyn Stewart's Sing A Sad Song became a small hit in 1963. Alongside Buck Owens, Haggard became key in defining the Bakersfield Sound, a harsher, more raucous, electrified answer to Nashville's country pop slickness, that came seeping out of the honky tonk bars. He became a leading star throughout the 1960s and 1970s, scoring 38 Number 1 hits on the country charts and producing the classics Okie From Muskogee, Mama Tried and The Fightin' Side of Me, but his fame waned in the 1980s with the onset of a new generation of stars. A comeback in 2000 saw him given a new lease of life to reaffirm his status as a hugely influential, bona fide country legend.