Author: Merle Haggard

Brand: WACR2

Format: CD

Release Date: 02-04-2009

Details: Product Description This 1994 CMA Hall of Fame inductee has put together what he calls his best album ever! This true "Americana" album features such signature Merle Haggard tunes as "Sin City Blues," "No Time to Cry," "Beer Can Hill" and much more. Full touring schedule planned for 1996. Amazon.ca Despite the budget-bin marketing of 1996--there are no photos or illustrations on the package--it includes nine new Haggard compositions and contributions from such admirers as Dwight Yoakam, Buck Owens, Iris DeMent, Johnny Paycheck, and John Anderson. 1996 may not match Haggard's great late-'60s work, but it's better than 95 percent of the country releases of the '90s. When two Haggard tribute albums appeared in 1994, the subject himself was most impressed by DeMent's version of "Big City." Haggard not only hired her as an opening act, but recorded her brilliant song about her father's death, "No Time to Cry," for 1996. Also impressive are the graceful, swinging, blue-collar laments "Truck Driver's Blues" and "Too Many Highways." --Geoffrey Himes

UPC: 715187779624

EAN: 0715187779624

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood