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Music CD - Merle Haggard: Down Every Road
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Music CD: Down Every Road
Artist: Merle Haggard
List Price: $52.98
Our Price: $32.97
Your Save: $ 20.01 ( 38% )
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Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks:
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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. The Bottle Let Me Down
11. High On A Hilltop
12. I'll Look Over You
13. The 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. The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp
27. Seeing Eye Dog
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724383571123
Format: Box set
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 4
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: 1996-04-02
Studio: Capitol
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Whole lotta Hag!
Comment: 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.
Seriously though Hag fans, it's hard to go wrong with this set despite it being plenty pricey. 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.
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Summary: As good as country music gets
Comment: When you think of traditional country music, few names command the respect Merle Haggard does. There are perhaps dozens of Merle compilations, but I find "Down Every Road" is arguably the best showcase of his versatile career.
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.
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Summary: Not a good cover of Haggard's Career
Comment: I cant believe I wasted my money on this box. 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. 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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Summary: Can it be true this is out of print?
Comment: I know I've seen this excellent box set for sale on amazon, along with many positive reviews. Well, if the only way you can get 'Down Every Road' used then that's what you're going to have to do. That's if you're a fan of classic country music from one of the all time rebels.
From his earliest recordings all the way up to the late 80's you get a very nice overview of this guys stellar career. The music is remastered and flawless - even the very early stuff.
The songs range in topic from drinking beer over heartache to drinking beer for a good time. But that's not all. He sings songs about Vietnam POW's, father's giving their daughter's hands in marraige, civil rights, interracial love affair and anything else you can name. This guy covered it all.
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Summary: All the best, when Hag was young!
Comment: I got this set for my Dad after he made me a compilation of Merle's classics. I listened to it, and while it was the same songs, they weren't how I remebered them. I asked Dad where he got them and he said from a more recent best of package. Apparently, due to record label rights, they had to have the vocals re-recorded for legal purposes. So instead of hearing Merle when his voice was still young with more range, instead of the older, more mature tones of his current vocals. Don't get me wrong, I love the recent stuff too, but this is a great collection when he was at his best.
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Editorial Reviews:
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For a long time, Merle Haggard has been best known for his least-important music--"Okie from Muskogee" and its sequels, "The Fighting Side of Me" and "Are the Good Times Really Over." All three of these patriotic novelty songs are included on this four-CD box set, but they are dwarfed by the riches around them. Songs such as "Running Kind," "If We Make it Through December," and "I Started Loving You Again" eschew sloganeering to draw powerful portraits of working-class folks pulled in one direction by a longing for footloose freedom and in another by economic realities and emotional ties. The catchy directness, the poetic vernacular, and Haggard's baritone purr mark those numbers as examples of country music at its finest. Down Every Road is as crucial as Robert Johnson's Complete Recordings, Hank Williams' Original Singles Collection ... Plus, or Bob Dylan's Biograph. --Geoffrey Himes
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