Merle Haggard - Icon (2013)mp3@ 320{1337x}-kawli

Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country and Western song writer, singer, guitarist, fiddler, and instrumentalist. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era.

By the 1970s, Haggard was aligned with the growing outlaw country movement, and has continued to release successful albums through the 1990s and into the 2000s. In 1994, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1997, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.

Universal's 2013 Merle Haggard Icon title -- there was a different one released just the year before -- arrives after the Universal/EMI merger, which means that this collection gets to merge hits from Capitol with hits from ABC, resulting in a terrific single-disc sampler of Hag's biggest and best hits. Opening with "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" and closing with "Branded Man," this doesn't follow a chronological order -- it alternates between the '60s and '70s -- but it doesn't matter, as everything here is first-rate. Any listener who just wants the hits will certainly be pleased by this excellent budget-line compilation.

Tracklist:

1. I Think I’ll Just Stay Here And Drink 4:31
2. Workin’ Man Blues 2:35
3. Okie From Muskogee 2:43
4. Ramblin’ Fever 3:09
5. The Bottle Let Me Down 2:48
6. Mama Tried 2:12
7. I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am 2:48
8. Sing Me Back Home 2:49
9. Misery And Gin 2:49
10. I’m A Lonesome Fugitive 2:55
11. Branded Man 3:06

Media Info:
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: stereo
Samplerate: 44100
Encoder: LAME 3.92
MPEG-1 layer 3

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