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Merle Haggard - If I Could Only Fly Audio CD

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Merle Haggard Band: Merle Haggard
Title: If I Could Only Fly
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Release Date: 2000-10-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Wishing All These Old Things Were New 2: Honky Tonky Mama 3: Turn to Me 4: If I Could Only Fly 5: Crazy Moon 6: Bareback 7: (Think About A) Lullaby 8: I'm Still Your Daddy 9: Proud to Be Your Old Man 10: Leavin's Getting Harder 11: Thanks to Uncle John 12: Listening (To the Wind)

Our greatest living vocal stylist
He sings off the beat better than anybody else who ever lived. I heard Merle sing the title track (If I Could Only Fly) at Bonnaroo this past weekend and many grown men wept openly. .


excellent music
I have always liked to listen to Merle Haggard, when I heard a couple of songs off this new album I just had to buy it to add to my collection of Merle Haggard's music.


One of the very very best
It was the first of his I'd bought, and it has become one of my all-time favorite recordings. I bought this CD years ago, when it first came out, with the other cover (just Merle's characterful face, staring out of a full-face portrait).

No need to cover the ground that everyone else here has, suffice it to say that it bleeds genuine feeling, excellent songwriting and song selection, spare but perfect instrumentation and those ever-so-excellent vocals. Quirky, too. Who'd have thought Merle would pen an ode to safe sex, in western swing style (Bareback)?

You should buy this CD.


this album is really really good
Thank you for your music. Merle, you have so much talent, I wish you the best luck and good times. It means so much to us, your fans. I wish the big labels would give you freedom to record new songs and the radio would play them. But anyways I'm happy that you seem to have found peace in your life, which I hear on this album.
I have listened to this album a lot during the last few years and I never get tired of it. Keep recording when the fish aren't biting. I'll be there to buy the album if you put another one out. I sure hope you do!.


Try it - you might just like it
And if you're a first time buyer of Merle's music, this one might not convince you that he is truly the legend he is. True, this is a different Merle we're hearing than the one most country fans are used to. But real HAG FANS, and music fans willing to take a bit of a risk, will appreciate this side of Merle. His voice was not what it could have been at the time he recorded this, and we've later found that this was due to his dental problems that have now been repaired. But it's still Merle. . . . the man with the golden pen who has an uncanny ability to capture emotions on a sheet of paper. I think anyone who REALLY listens to this album with an open mind and keen ear will agree that it's a beautiful collection.


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