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The LP also contains some of Haggard's most delicately sung love songs, such as the melancholy "Shelly's Winter Love" and "The Farmer's Daughter." Haggard would rerecord "No Reason to Quit" for his 1983 duet album Pancho and Lefty with Willie Nelson. Hag was reissued along with Let Me Tell You About a Song on CD by Beat Goes On Records in 2002. [1]
The Essential Merle Haggard: The Epic Years: Release date: August 31, 2004; Label: Epic Records — 139 Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard: Release date: September 12, 2006; Label: Capitol Nashville; 59 — 10 Great Songs: Release date: July 3, 2012; Label: Capitol Nashville; 75 — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Haggard was born in Oildale, California , toward the end of the Great Depression .
Haggard spent a few scant months learning the fiddle, an instrument that he had not touched since his childhood violin lessons. Unlike Haggard's previous tribute album to Jimmie Rodgers, which gave the original songs a new sound, his Wills LP remained true to the original arrangements. As Cantwell observes, "The album's most charming quality ...
As Jonathan Bernstein recounts in his online Rolling Stone article "Merle Haggard Reluctantly Unveils 'The Fightin' Side of Me'", "Hoping to distance himself from the harshly right-wing image he had accrued in the wake of the hippie-bashing "Muskogee," Haggard wanted to take a different direction and release "Irma Jackson" as his next single...
Haggard's music has long been a favorite among the Republican party, but Haggard lived by his own rules and his music ran the gamut from ultra-patriotic to an ode to longtime Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys were a major influence on the music of Asleep at the Wheel during its formative years. According to frontman Ray Benson, the band was initially "pretty primitive ... playing hippie-country-western-rock", before he heard Merle Haggard's tribute to Wills, A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills), which was released in ...
It features a mix of Haggard's big hits and other, more obscure tracks. The title cut, written by Freddy Powers, is a paean to the American farmer, in keeping with the spirit of the Willie Nelson-spearheaded Farm Aid benefit, as does "Tulare Dust" and "The Farmer's Daughter."