Natural High By Merle Haggard

This extensive best-of illustrates both the breadth of Merle Haggard's songwriting and his ability to unerringly hit a nerve with the American public. Blue-collar songs, drinking songs, outlaw songs, and prison songs are all well-represented here. Barroom songs like "I ...

Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the Country Music icon on one CD: Amber Waves Of Grain and Kern River (both originally released in 1985). One of the most successful and prolific Country artistes of all time, ...

Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the Country Music icon on one CD: Amber Waves Of Grain and Kern River (both originally released in 1985). One of the most successful and prolific Country artistes of all time, ...

This energetic live recording from the popular Fort Worth venue, Billy Bob's, finds Merle Haggard in feisty form performing a wide variety of his hits, as well as a couple of Hank Williams songs and some Western swing-influenced crowd-pleasers like ...

When Merle Haggard signed with Epic Records in 1981 he was a bona fide country star, if not quite an icon yet (that would happen in the 1990s when his influence was everywhere with country's new stars -- although he ...

Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the Country great on one disc. That's the Way Love Goes (1983) reached #8 on the Billboard Country album chart. Three singles were released with both "That's the Way Love Goes" ...

After spending the first half of the decade concentrating on melancholy ballads, Haggard turned to the light, uptempo songs that dominate this collection. Pleasant, sprightly fare like "A Friend In California" and "Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room" benefit ...

FOR THE RECORD contains new recordings of Merle Haggard's hits. Principally recorded at Tally Studio, Palo Cedro, California. Includes liner notes by Wade Jessen. What Bob Dylan is to rock & roll, Merle Haggard is to country music. As Dylan built on ...

A number of Merle Haggard box sets preceded this one to fruition, among them 1996's four-disc,100-track Down Every Road, as comprehensive and essential a collection of country music as you're ever likely to hear. At three discs and 60 tracks, ...

After spending the first half of the decade concentrating on melancholy ballads, Haggard turned to the light, uptempo songs that dominate this collection. Pleasant, sprightly fare like "A Friend In California" and "Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room" benefit ...

Track Listing: Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Star; Natural High; Carolyn; Big City; My Favorite Memory; Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room; Legend of Bonnie and Clyde, The; Are the Good Times Really Over; Things Aren't Funny Anymore; Branded Man; Roots ...

American Beat's 2010 two-fer combines two of Merle Haggard's most distinctive albums from the mid-`80s -- 1985's Kern River and 1987's Chill Factor -- onto one CD. Arriving in 1985, Kern River is a curious mix of Haggard's dry, spare ...

Merle Haggard fans expecting the tough-talking, hard-living honky-tonk man of his Capitol years will likely be surprised by what they encounter on LOVE SONGS. It's not that Merle's 1960s output was entirely devoid of sentimental material, but this particular collection ...

After a nearly five-year stint at MCA, Merle Haggard left the label for Epic in 1981, where he continued his remarkable string of number one country singles and chart-topping albums. Even though he had no less than nine number one ...

In the early '80s, Merle Haggard's commercial star was about to be eclipsed by a new wave of country performers such as Randy Travis and George Strait. On this period's album's, however, such as 1984's IT'S ALL IN THE GAME, ...

Track Listing: Natural High; I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am; Old Man From The Mountain; Motorcycle Cowboy; C. C. Waterback; Misery And Gin; Bar Room Buddies; My Favorite Memory; Pancho And Lefty; Carolyn; Always Wanting You; ...

Track Listing: Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room; A Place To Fall Apart; It's All In The Game; Little Hotel Room; I Never Go Home Anymore; All I Want To Do Is Sing My Song; Natural High; Thank Heaven ...

Track Listing: Big City; Kern River; You Take Me For Granted; Are The Good Times Really Over; Reasons To Quit; What Am I Gonna Do; Going Where The Lonely Go; Natural High; Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room; A ...

Track Listing: Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room; Place To Fall Apart; It's All In the Game; Little Hotel Room; I Never Go Home Anymore; All I Want To Do Is Sing My Song; Natural High; Thank Heaven For ...

Track Listing: Kern River; Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle To You; There I've Said It Again; You Don't Love Me Anymore; Natural High; Big Butter and Egg Man; Ridin' High; There's Somebody Else On Your Mind; I Wonder Where ...

Though these 22 songs could easily have fit onto a single disc, Madacy's Merle Haggard wrap-up The Collection is an agreeable collection -- it includes nearly all of his best-known songs and doesn't miss too many of the essentials. The ...

After spending the first half of the decade concentrating on melancholy ballads, Haggard turned to the light, uptempo songs that dominate this collection. Pleasant, sprightly fare like "A Friend In California" and "Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room" benefit ...

This brief budget introduction to Merle Haggard's early years really isn't the best of this American icon's work at all, since it lacks classics like "Mama Tried," "Branded Man," "The Bottle Let Me Down," and "The Fightin' Side of Me," ...

Arriving in 1985, Kern River is a curious mix of Haggard's dry, spare narratives and nostalgic, big-band throwbacks, a combination that might initially seem to clash, but Hag handles it with an understated ease. If anything, the melancholic undercurrent of ...

Track Listing: I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink; Natural High; Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room; The Roots Of My Raising; Workin' Man Blues; Are The Good Times Really Over; It's Not Love; If We Make It ...

In the early '80s, Merle Haggard's commercial star was about to be eclipsed by a new wave of country performers such as Randy Travis and George Strait. On this period's album's, however, such as 1984's IT'S ALL IN THE GAME, ...

Track Listing: Branded man; bottle let me down, The; I'm a lonesome fugitive; Swinging doors; I threw away the rose; ; Mama tried; Sing me back home; legend of Bonnie and Clyde, The; Hungry eyes; I take a lot of ...