Merle Haggard - Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World
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Artist: Merle HaggardEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-04-10
Music Label: Bgo
Soundtracks:
- Brown Skinned Gal
- Right Or Wrong
- Brain Cloudy Blues
- Stay A Little Longer
- Misery
- Time Changes Everything
- San Antonio Rose
- I Knew The Moment I Lost You
- Roly Poly
- Old Fashioned Love
- Corrine Corrina
- Take Me Back To Tulsa
- ItĀ?S All In The Movies
- NothingĀ?S Worse Than Losing
- After Loving You
- Stingeree
- I Know An Ending
- This Is The Song We Sing
- Living With The Shades Pulled Down
- HagĀ?S Dixie Blues #2
- LetĀ?S Stop Pretending
- Cotton Patch Blues
- Seeker
Music reviews of Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World
Music Review: Two great but contrasting seventies albums
Rating: 5 Stars
The first album here is a tribute to Bob Wills, in which Merle called on the services of six members of Bob's band, the Texas Playboys, to give the album an authentic feel. As is typical of tribute albums, this one contains some of Bob's biggest hits but includes plenty of less obvious selections. The familiar songs here include San Antonio Rose (often covered by country singers), Right or wrong (revived by George Strait, it became one of his earliest country hits) and Stay a little longer (a country hit for Willie Nelson in the seventies and later re-recorded by him for Greatest hits and some that will be). Although plenty of Bob's hits are missing, the inclusion of Time changes everything, Take me back to Tulsa and many other great song illustrates the depth of his music beyond the hits.
The second album here, It's all in the music, is a typical ~Merle Haggard album that features eight of his own songs including the classic title track. Among the other seven, I particularly like the upbeat This is the song we sing, but they're all worth a listen. The tune to one of them (Living with the shades pulled down) reminds me of Rocky top, so perhaps it`s not truly a Merle Haggard original. There are at least three covers, these being another Bob Wills song (Cotton patch blues), a Dolly Parton classic (The seeker) and an obscure Hank Cochran song (I know an ending). The liner notes say that there are four covers, but I can't trace another recording of Stingeree (the other song here that Merle didn't write) so I wonder whether it is a cover or a song that was written for him.
While it is possible to argue about which of Merle's albums are the best, I'll just say that he recorded many great albums and I was very pleased to see these two re-issued on CD, having originally had them on vinyl.
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Remastered. If any one album deserves credit for ushering in the Western swing revival, it's this previously buried treasure from 1970. Haggard taught himself to play fiddle before recording this album and augmented his band with members of Wills's pioneering Texas Playboys, including guitarist Eldon Shamblin and fiddler Johnny Gimble. Merle would become a more fluid fiddler in the future, and the Strangers would swing more cohesively, but that doesn't take away from the chemistry or adventurousness in this, his first effort in the genre. BGO. 2006.Country CDs
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