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Down Every Road

Merle Haggard - Down Every Road Audio CD

A fair review of the Merle Haggard "Down Every Road" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Merle Haggard reviews here, or go back to the Merle Haggard tabs.

Band: Merle Haggard
Title: Down Every Road
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Release Date: 1996-04-02
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Skid Row 2: Sing a Sad Song 3: You Don't Even Try 4: Sam Hill 5: (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers 6: Just Between the Two of Us 7: If I Had Left It Up to You 8: I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can 9: Swinging Doors 10: Bottle Let Me Down 11: High on a Hilltop 12: I'll Look Over You 13: Fugitive 14: House of Memories 15: All of Me Belongs to You 16: Mary's Mine 17: Someone Told My Story 18: Go Home 19: Whatever Happened to Me 20: Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive 21: I Threw Away the Rose 22: Branded Man 23: You Don't Have Very Far to Go 24: Somewhere Between 25: Sing Me Back Home 26: Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp 27: Seeing Eye Dog 28: Legend of Bonnie and Clyde 29: I Started Loving You Again 30: Is This the Beginning of the End? 31: I'll Always Know 32: Mama Tried 33: In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) 34: Teach Me to Forget 35: I'm Looking for My Mind [#] 36: Day the Rains Came 37: California Blues [Blue Yodel No. 4] 38: I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am 39: I'm Bringin' Home Good News 40: I Can't Hold Myself in Line 41: It Meant Goodbye to Me When You Said Hello to Him 42: Hungry Eyes 43: Silver Wings 44: Waiting for a Train 45: Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (Women Make a Fool Out of Me) 46: California Cottonfields 47: White Line Fever 48: Workin' Man Blues 49: Okie from Muskogee 50: I Can't Stop Loving You [Live][#] 51: Huntsville 52: Irma Jackson 53: Fightin' Side of Me 54: I'll Be a Hero (When I Strike) [#] 55: Right or Wrong 56: Trouble in Mind 57: Stay a Little Longer 58: Farmer's Daughter 59: Tulare Dust 60: Carolyn 61: Someday We'll Look Back 62: Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) 63: Grandma Harp 64: It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) 65: I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me 66: If We Make It Through December 67: Emptiest Arms in the World 68: Everybody's Had the Blues [#] 69: Things Aren't Funny Anymore 70: Honky Tonk Night Time Man 71: Holding Things Together 72: Here in Frisco 73: Kentucky Gambler 74: Always Wanting You 75: Living With the Shades Pulled Down 76: Running Kind 77: It's All in the Movies 78: Way It Was in '51 79: I Never Go Around Mirrors (I've Got a Heartache to Hide) 80: What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana 81: If We're Not Back in Love by Monday 82: Ramblin' Fever 83: It's Been a Great Afternoon 84: Red Bandana 85: Footlights 86: My Own Kind of Hat 87: Misery and Gin 88: Leonard 89: I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink 90: Rainbow Stew 91: Big City 92: Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver) 93: You Take Me for Granted 94: Pancho and Lefty - Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson 95: That's the Way Love Goes 96: Someday When Things Are Good 97: Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room 98: Kern River 99: Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Star 100: In My Next Life

Get this collection and prepare to get walloped
Saving, perhaps, for one Arthur Fonzerelli, there has never been anyone as cool as Merle Haggard. To understand Merle Haggard, you must understand these facts:
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2. Merle Haggard meant every word he ever sang, even if he only meant it while he was singing it.
3. Since Merle Haggard, virtually every Honky-Tonk singer has tried to sound like Merle Haggard, and virtually every one of them has failed miserably.
In this collection you get 100 Haggard songs, and every one of 'em packs a mighty wallop.

Down Every Road by Merle Haggard
It was received in a very timely manner. Item was purchased as a gift. Recipient was very pleased and has reported no problems with the CD set.

Whole lotta Hag!

Seriously though Hag fans, it's hard to go wrong with this set despite it being plenty pricey. I've got a lot of Hag around the house, but you don't want to hear about my wife--let's talk music instead. It's a very good cross section of his finest years and disc two especially is great stuff.

To me Merle Haggard music should be a seperate genre. It's almost not fair to compare him to other country artists because no matter how you slice it, he is so unbelievably good. That voice, at once clear, effortless and moving. And what a prolific song writer as well, Hag was cranking out classics faster than others could have put a bunch of garbage on vinyl.

His songs just hit home with you and are a great source of Americana. There will never be another one like him and yet you hardly ever hear a Hag tune on the radio these days, which is kind of like taking George Washington off of the dollar bill.

I love Hag's stuff, and my wife too by the way. You'll like this one also. I highly recommend it. .

As good as country music gets
There are perhaps dozens of Merle compilations, but I find "Down Every Road" is arguably the best showcase of his versatile career. When you think of traditional country music, few names command the respect Merle Haggard does.

It's amazing to see how far Haggard's career progressed from the early 60's to now; this collection covers the vast majority of his hits through 1994 or so, with a few minor exceptions ("Movin' On" isn't included, for example). It's all here. All the stories that make country music great: drinkin', trains, love gained, love lost, good-boy-gone wrong, etc. The thing is, Merle's lived most of this. The listener can almost feel the pain in his voice in a lot of this material, and it's completely believable. I guess that's why I like him so much, and one of the reasons he's been so well received over the course of his lengthy career. He's a road warrior, a survivor. I would recommend this collection to any real country music fan, but it's priceless for true Hag fans. Worth every penny.

Not a good cover of Haggard's Career
It does a a lousy job of covering anything other then his Capitol years (doesnt surprise me being a Capitol box set) and I dont believe it even does a good job of that. I cant believe I wasted my money on this box. Its a good thing its out of print and I wouldnt recommend anyone wasting their time trying to find a copy.

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