Merle Haggard - Down Every Road (1962-1994) (CD-Rip)

CD 1 - 1962-67
1. Skid Row (1:48)
2. Sing A Sad Song (2:36)
3. You Don't Even Try (2:19)
4. Sam Hill (2:35)
5. (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers (2:32)
6. Just Between The Two Of Us (2:46)
7. If I Had Left It Up To You (2:26)
8. I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can (2:02)
9. Swinging Doors (2:55)
10. The Bottle Let Me Down (2:50)
11. High On A Hilltop (3:01)
12. I'll Look Over You (2:12)
13. The Fugitive (3:00)
14. House Of Memories (2:49)
15. All Of Me Belongs To You (2:43)
16. Mary's Mine (2:59)
17. Someone Told My Story (2:35)
18. Go Home (2:37)
19. Whatever Happened To Me (3:00)
20. Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive (2:37)
21. I Threw Away The Rose (3:23)
22. Branded Man (3:09)
23. You Don't Have Very Far To Go (2:22)
24. Somewhere Between (3:08)
25. Sing Me Back Home (2:51)
26. The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp (3:01)
27. Seeing Eye Dog (2:00)

CD 2 - 1968-70
1. The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde (2:08)
2. I Started Loving You Again (2:24)
3. Is This The Beginning Of The End (3:06)
4. I'll Always Know (2:24)
5. Mama Tried (2:15)
6. In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) (2:47)
7. Teach Me To Forget (3:17)
8. I'm Looking For My Mind (2:12)
9. The Day The Rains Came (2:42)
10. California Blues (Blue Yodel #4) (2:52)
11. I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am (2:50)
12. I'm Bringin' Home Good News (2:50)
13. I Can't Hold Myself In Line (2:57)
14. It Meant Goodbye To Me When You Said Hello To Him (2:34)
15. Hungry Eyes (3:30)
16. Silver Wings (2:46)
17. Waitin' For A Train (2:54)
18. Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (The Women Make A Fool Out Of Me) (3:09)
19. California Cottonfields (2:49)
20. White Line Fever (2:51)
21. Workin' Man Blues (2:37)
22. Okie From Muskogee (2:46)
23. I Can't Stop Loving You (Live) (2:56)
24. Huntsville (3:09)
25. Irma Jackson (2:29)
26. The Fightin' Side Of Me (2:55)
27. I'll Be A Hero (When I Strike) (2:03)

CD 3 - 1971-76
1. Right Or Wrong (2:38)
2. Trouble In Mind (3:14)
3. Stay A Little Longer (2:49)
4. The Farmer's Daughter (2:55)
5. Tulare Dust (1:47)
6. Carolyn (2:33)
7. Someday We'll Look Back (2:30)
8. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) (3:10)
9. Grandma Harp (2:11)
10. It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) (3:20)
11. I Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me (2:50)
12. If We Make It Thought December (2:42)
13. The Emptiest Arms In The World (2:52)
14. Everybody's Had The Blues (3:07)
15. Things Aren't Funny Anymore (2:42)
16. Honky Tonk Night Time Man (2:38)
17. Holding Things Together (2:58)
18. Here In Frisco (2:29)
19. Kentucky Gambler (2:40)
20. Always Wanting You (3:06)
21. Living With The Shades Pulled Down (2:56)
22. Running Kind (3:02)
23. It's All In The Movies (3:12)
24. The Way It Was In '51 (3:21)
25. I Never Go Around Mirrors (2:44)
26. What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana (3:06)

CD 4 - 1977-94
1. If We're Not Back In Love By Monday (3:18)
2. Ramblin' Fever (3:11)
3. It's Been A Great Afternoon (2:49)
4. Red Bandana (2:35)
5. Footlights (4:04)
6. My Own Kind Of Hat (2:57)
7. Misery And Gin (2:52)
8. Leonard (3:40)
9. I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink (4:33)
10. Rainbow Stew (2:39)
11. Big City (3:04)
12. Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver) (4:17)
13. You Take Me For Granted (2:46)
14. Pancho And Lefty (4:49)
15. That's The Way Love Goes (3:04)
16. Someday When Things Are Good (3:34)
17. Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room (2:53)
18. Kern River (3:24)
19. Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star (3:26)
20. In My Next Life (3:50)

Product Description
A 4-CD, 100-track set that not only covers the classic '60s Capitol years, but also his 1977-1994 MCA, Curb and Epic sides as well as his '70s Capitol recordings! A full 55 of Merle's biggest singles are here, from The Fugitive through Okie from Muskogee; If We Make It Through December, and Pancho and Lefty . Along the way there's early Tally tracks, three unissued cuts and a host of tracks from Merle's long-out-of-print Capitol LPs. Merle's had an amazing career, and this set just about covers it.

Amazon.com
For a long time, Merle Haggard has been best known for his least-important music--"Okie from Muskogee" and its sequels, "The Fighting Side of Me" and "Are the Good Times Really Over." All three of these patriotic novelty songs are included on this four-CD box set, but they are dwarfed by the riches around them. Songs such as "Running Kind," "If We Make it Through December," and "I Started Loving You Again" eschew sloganeering to draw powerful portraits of working-class folks pulled in one direction by a longing for footloose freedom and in another by economic realities and emotional ties. The catchy directness, the poetic vernacular, and Haggard's baritone purr mark those numbers as examples of country music at its finest. Down Every Road is as crucial as Robert Johnson's Complete Recordings, Hank Williams' Original Singles Collection ... Plus, or Bob Dylan's Biograph. --Geoffrey Himes