King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller

Roger Miller - King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller

King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller
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Artist: Roger Miller
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1995-08-22
Music Label: Mercury Nashville
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. My Pillow
  2. Poor Little John
  3. Man Like Me
  4. Wrong Kind of Girl
  5. Jason Fleming
  6. World So Full of Love [#]
  7. When a House (Is Not a Home) [#]
  8. You Don't Want My Love
  9. When Two Worlds Collide
  10. Sorry, Willie
  11. So Saith He the Lord [#]
  12. Lock, Stock and Teardrops
  13. Ain't That Fine
  14. Less and Less [#]
  15. Chug-A-Lug
  16. Lou's Got the Flu
  17. Moon Is High (And So Am I)
  18. Dang Me
  19. It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
  20. Reincarnation
  21. Hard Headed Me
  22. Do-Wacka-Do
  23. Atta Boy Girl
  24. Our Hearts Will Play the Music
Music CD 2
  1. King of the Road
  2. As Long as There's a Shadow
  3. You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd
  4. Heartbreak Hotel
  5. Big Harlan Taylor
  6. One Dyin' and a Buryin'
  7. Last Word in Lonesome Is Me
  8. It Happened Just That Way
  9. Engine, Engine #9
  10. Kansas City Star
  11. England Swings
  12. I've Been a Long Time Leavin'
  13. Husbands and Wives
  14. Train of Life
  15. Dad Blame Anything a Man Can't Quit
  16. You're My Kingdom
  17. My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died
  18. Home
  19. Absence
  20. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
  21. Walkin' in the Sunshine
  22. Million Years or So
  23. Pardon This Coffin
Music CD 3
  1. Ballad of Waterhole #3
  2. Old Toy Trains
  3. Little Green Apples
  4. What I'd Give to Be the Wind
  5. Boeing Boeing 707
  6. Treat Me Like a Human [#][Outtake]
  7. What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings)
  8. Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line [#]
  9. Swiss Cottage Place
  10. Me and Bobby McGee
  11. Where Have All the Average People Gone
  12. Best of All Possible Worlds
  13. Invitation to the Blues
  14. Tall Tall Trees
  15. Don't We All Have the Right
  16. That's the Way I Feel
  17. Half a Mind
  18. Hoppy's Gone
  19. What Would My Mama Say
  20. Orange Blosson Special [Live][#]
  21. Old Friends - Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, Ray Price
  22. Guv'ment
  23. River in the Rain

Music reviews of King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller

Music Review: Comedic genius is selling Roger Miller short
Rating: 5 Stars

True, Roger Miller wrote some GREAT manic/comic country songs, but his depth as a writer (e.g.: the sadness and truth of a song like "Dang Me")is often overlooked and this is the best existing collection to allow listeners to more fully appreciate the many facets of a truly underestimated talent.

His back catalog is in a sad state of disrepair and has been for years. Buyer beware: numerous widely available budget "Best ofs" are actually re-recordings done in the 80s of classic Miller material. Still Roger Miller, just not the recordings done when his star was shining the brightest.

If you seek prime Miller in single disc form, you'd best seek out Smash Hits on Smash Records and the harder to find Country Tunesmith, a CD reissue of his 1970 "For The Country" record on which Miller actually recorded many of the songs he had written for Faron Young and others in the late 50s/early 60s.

By far, this box is the best thing out there for anyone looking for more than just a taste, and as close as you will come to a definitive collection until Smash decides to remaster and reissue the original great recordings in their entirety, which is long overdue.

Description of King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller

Comedy gets no respect. If Merle Haggard sums up the dilemma of the American working class from the hard-bitten perspective of "Mama Tried" or "The Bottle Let Me Down," he's called a blue-collar poet. If Roger Miller captures the same predicament from the warped, comic perspective of "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd," he's dismissed as a novelty writer. And yet, a great comic song is just as hard to write as a serious one and sheds just as much light on its subject. Nashville has been home to some gifted comic songwriters over the years--Tom T. Hall, Shel Silverstein, John Prine, and so on--but Miller was the best of the bunch and, as such, one of the best songwriters country music has ever known. He's finally getting some overdue respect with the release of a three-CD anthology, King of the Road: The Genius of Roger Miller. Almost everyone is aware of "King of the Road," the shining pinnacle of Miller's career and one of the most perfect country songs ever written. Many of us remember his brief moment in the sun in 1964-66, when he not only dominated the country charts but also put 10 songs in the pop top-40--including such top-10 hits as "Dang Me," "Chug-a-Lug," "King of the Road," "Engine Engine #9," and "England Swings." Exuberant, infectious comic classics one and all, but The Genius of Roger Miller reveals there was a lot more to this quirky artist than that. --Geoffrey Himes

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