One could easily get the impression, just perusing the front and back covers of this
album, that it contains the original recordings of some of Merle Haggard's most popular recordings -- this is, as a sleeve note puts it, a ...
A good budget-priced collection, 20 Hits Special Collection, Vol. 1 features most of Merle Haggard's
biggest hits for Capitol, from (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers and Swingin' Doors to Everybody's Had the Blues. Though there are better, more thorough ...
Most of Merle Haggard's biggest hits for Capitol Records, classics like Mama Tried, Branded Man,
The Bottle Let Me Down, The Fightin' Side of Me, Okie from Muskogee, Hungry Eyes, and I'm a Lonesome Fugitive, are on the first hits ...
This compilation features 11 Capitol recordings by Buck Owens from 1963 through 1971. The twangy
honky tonk hits include Love's Gonna Live Here, Open Up Your Heart, and Your Tender Loving Care. There's also a fun cover of Chuck Berry's ...
Bear Family's fine ongoing series of country chart hits year by year is not only
an eye-opening history of country music's various trends and fashions, it also serves as a reminder of how a pop music genre builds, grows, and ...
What happened in country music in 1968 was this: it got harder and leaner in
some places and much softer in others, a schism Bear Family's wonderful 1968 volume in their ongoing Dim Lights, Thick Smoke & Hillbilly Music: Country ...
A two-disc, 32-track collection drawn from Time Life's ten-disc survey of modern country music called
Golden Age of Country, this volume includes such classics as George Jones' White Lightning, Roger Miller's King of the Road, Patsy Cline's Walkin' After Midnight, ...
Great Records of the Decade: '40s Hits -- Country, Vol. 1 is a budget-line collection
that features 11 hits from the '40s -- Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette), Mule Train, Divorce Me C.O.D., You Are My Sunshine, One Has My ...