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In spite of the song's title, it is not a blues but rather a folk song that uses the same chord pattern as Pachelbel's Canon. [1] Dylan scholar and musicologist Eyolf Ostrem notes that "[m]usically, it is a close cousin of "'Cross the Green Mountain" with which it shares the ever-descending bass line and some of the chord shadings that never manage to decide whether they're major or minor (and ...
"Workin' Man Blues" is Haggard's tribute to a core group of his fans: The American blue-collared working man. Backed by a strong electric guitar beat that typified Haggard's signature Bakersfield Sound, he fills the role of one of those workers expressing pride in values such as hard work and sacrifice, despite the resulting fatigue and the stress of raising a large family.
Roy Ernest Nichols (October 21, 1932 – July 3, 2001) was an American country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band The Strangers for more than two decades. He was known for his guitar technique, a mix of fingerpicking and pedal steel -like bends, usually played on a Fender Telecaster electric guitar.
Workin' Man Blues: 1999 Susan VanHecke: Race With The Devil: 2000 Ken Nelson: My First 90 Years Plus 3: 2007 Gary Church: Autobiography of a Nobody: 2012 Freddy Powers: The Spree of '83: 2017 Rachel Lee Rubin: Okie from Muskogee: 2018 Fuzzy Owen: Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens, & Me: 2019 Raymond H. McDonald: Merle Haggard was a Friend of Mine ...
The album contains two number-one country hits, "Hungry Eyes" (sometimes referred to as "Mama's Hungry Eyes") and "Workin' Man Blues".According to The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music, Haggard wrote "Hungry Eyes" as a tribute to his mother and the sacrifices she made for her family as a single mother (Haggard's father having died when he was 9), but it also stands as a tribute ...
"A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in August 1977 as the lead single from the album of the same name, A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today. The song peaked at number 16 on the U.S. country singles chart and at number 8 on the ...
Down Every Road 1962–1994 is a compilation album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in 1996. It covers music from his earliest work in the early 1960s to his Epic Records releases of the late 1980s. The boxed set includes three CDs of material recorded for Capitol Records (up to 1977) and one of Haggard's later MCA and Epic ...
A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today is a studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and the Strangers, released in 1977. Even though Haggard had moved to the MCA label, Capitol created this release from tracks previously recorded in 1975 and 1976.