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Down Every Road | 
 enlarge | Artist: Merle Haggard
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
List Price: $52.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 4906
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 6.3 x 1.4
MPN: 35711
UPC: 724383571123
EAN: 0724383571123
ASIN: B000002U0R
Release Date: April 2, 1996
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Disc 1
| • | Skid Row | | • | Sing a Sad Song - Merle Haggard, Stewart, Wynn [1] | | • | You Don't Even Try | | • | Sam Hill - Merle Haggard, Collins, Tommy | | • | (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers - Merle Haggard, Anderson, Liz | | • | Just Between the Two of Us - Merle Haggard, Anderson, Liz | | • | If I Had Left It Up to You | | • | I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can | | • | Swinging Doors | | • | The Bottle Let Me Down | | • | High on a Hilltop - Merle Haggard, Collins, Tommy | | • | I'll Look Over You | | • | The Fugitive - Merle Haggard, Anderson, Liz | | • | House of Memories | | • | All of Me Belongs to You | | • | Mary's Mine - Merle Haggard, Ward, Jerry | | • | Someone Told My Story | | • | Go Home - Merle Haggard, Collins, Tommy | | • | Whatever Happened to Me | | • | Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive - Merle Haggard, Cochran, Hank | | • | I Threw Away the Rose | | • | Branded Man | | • | You Don't Have Very Far to Go | | • | Somewhere Between | | • | Sing Me Back Home | | • | The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp - Merle Haggard, Frazier, Dallas | | • | Seeing Eye Dog |
Disc 2
| • | The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde | | • | I Started Loving You Again | | • | Is This the Beginning of the End? - Merle Haggard, Lewis, Wallace | | • | I'll Always Know | | • | Mama Tried | | • | In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) - Merle Haggard, Parton, Dolly | | • | Teach Me to Forget - Merle Haggard, Payne, Leon | | • | I'm Looking for My Mind | | • | The Day the Rains Came | | • | California Blues - Merle Haggard, Rodgers, Jimmie [1] | | • | I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am | | • | I'm Bringin' Home Good News | | • | I Can't Hold Myself in Line | | • | It Meant Goodbye to Me When You Said Hello to Him - Merle Haggard, Frizzell, Lefty | | • | Hungry Eyes | | • | Silver Wings | | • | Waiting for a Train - Merle Haggard, Rodgers, Jimmie [1] | | • | Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (Women Make a Fool Out of Me) - Merle Haggard, Rodgers, Jimmie [1] | | • | California Cottonfields - Merle Haggard, Frazier, Dallas | | • | White Line Fever | | • | Workin' Man Blues | | • | Okie from Muskogee - Merle Haggard, Burris, Roy Edward | | • | I Can't Stop Loving You - Merle Haggard, Gibson, Don | | • | Huntsville | | • | Irma Jackson | | • | The Fightin' Side of Me | | • | I'll Be a Hero (When I Strike) - Merle Haggard, Cochran, Hank |
Disc 3
| • | Right or Wrong - Merle Haggard, Biese, Paul | | • | Trouble in Mind - Merle Haggard, Jones, Richard [1] | | • | Stay a Little Longer - Merle Haggard, Duncan, Tommy | | • | The Farmer's Daughter | | • | Tulare Dust | | • | Carolyn - Merle Haggard, Collins, Tommy | | • | Someday We'll Look Back | | • | Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) | | • | Grandma Harp | | • | It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) - Merle Haggard, Martin, Glenn | | • | I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me | | • | If We Make It Through December | | • | The Emptiest Arms in the World | | • | Everybody's Had the Blues | | • | Things Aren't Funny Anymore | | • | Honky Tonk Night Time Man | | • | Holding Things Together | | • | Here in Frisco | | • | Kentucky Gambler - Merle Haggard, Parton, Dolly | | • | Always Wanting You | | • | Living With the Shades Pulled Down | | • | The Running Kind | | • | It's All in the Movies | | • | The Way It Was in '51 | | • | I Never Go Around Mirrors (I've Got a Heartache to Hide) - Merle Haggard, Frizzell, Lefty | | • | What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana - Merle Haggard, Kirby, Dave |
Disc 4
| • | If We're Not Back in Love by Monday - Merle Haggard, Martin, Glenn | | • | Ramblin' Fever | | • | It's Been a Great Afternoon | | • | Red Bandana | | • | Footlights | | • | My Own Kind of Hat | | • | Misery and Gin - Merle Haggard, Durrill, Johnny | | • | Leonard | | • | I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink | | • | Rainbow Stew | | • | Big City | | • | Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver) | | • | You Take Me for Granted - Merle Haggard, Williams, Leona [1] | | • | Pancho and Lefty - Merle Haggard, VanZandt, Townes | | • | That's the Way Love Goes - Merle Haggard, Frizzell, Lefty | | • | Someday When Things Are Good - Merle Haggard, Williams, Leona [1] | | • | Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room | | • | Kern River | | • | Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Star | | • | In My Next Life - Merle Haggard, Barnes, Max D. |
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 41 more reviews...
 Get this collection and prepare to get walloped July 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
To understand Merle Haggard, you must understand these facts:
1. Saving, perhaps, for one Arthur Fonzerelli, there has never been anyone as cool as Merle Haggard.
2. Merle Haggard meant every word he ever sang, even if he only meant it while he was singing it.
3. Since Merle Haggard, virtually every Honky-Tonk singer has tried to sound like Merle Haggard, and virtually every one of them has failed miserably.
In this collection you get 100 Haggard songs, and every one of 'em packs a mighty wallop.
Down Every Road by Merle Haggard June 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Item was purchased as a gift. It was received in a very timely manner. Recipient was very pleased and has reported no problems with the CD set.
Whole lotta Hag! April 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've got a lot of Hag around the house, but you don't want to hear about my wife--let's talk music instead.
Seriously though Hag fans, it's hard to go wrong with this set despite it being plenty pricey. It's a very good cross section of his finest years and disc two especially is great stuff.
To me Merle Haggard music should be a seperate genre. It's almost not fair to compare him to other country artists because no matter how you slice it, he is so unbelievably good. That voice, at once clear, effortless and moving. And what a prolific song writer as well, Hag was cranking out classics faster than others could have put a bunch of garbage on vinyl.
His songs just hit home with you and are a great source of Americana. There will never be another one like him and yet you hardly ever hear a Hag tune on the radio these days, which is kind of like taking George Washington off of the dollar bill.
I love Hag's stuff, and my wife too by the way. You'll like this one also. I highly recommend it.
As good as country music gets March 24, 2007
When you think of traditional country music, few names command the respect Merle Haggard does. There are perhaps dozens of Merle compilations, but I find "Down Every Road" is arguably the best showcase of his versatile career.
It's amazing to see how far Haggard's career progressed from the early 60's to now; this collection covers the vast majority of his hits through 1994 or so, with a few minor exceptions ("Movin' On" isn't included, for example). It's all here. All the stories that make country music great: drinkin', trains, love gained, love lost, good-boy-gone wrong, etc. The thing is, Merle's lived most of this. The listener can almost feel the pain in his voice in a lot of this material, and it's completely believable. I guess that's why I like him so much, and one of the reasons he's been so well received over the course of his lengthy career. He's a road warrior, a survivor. I would recommend this collection to any real country music fan, but it's priceless for true Hag fans. Worth every penny.
 Not a good cover of Haggard's Career September 12, 2006
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I cant believe I wasted my money on this box. It does a a lousy job of covering anything other then his Capitol years (doesnt surprise me being a Capitol box set) and I dont believe it even does a good job of that. Its a good thing its out of print and I wouldnt recommend anyone wasting their time trying to find a copy.
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