TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
1.9351
Merle Haggard Album Rankings
1
Merle Haggard is a rarity: a complex artist whose rich scope can accurately be summarized through singles, but who has far more great material than can be fit on one or two discs.
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2
WhenMerle Haggard & the Strangers, along with producerLewis Talley, entered a recording studio in July of 1981 to make his debut album for Epic -- after leaving his long association with MCA -- he had
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3
With a title like40 #1 Hits, it's easy to assume that the collection will contain nothing but number one hits, whether it's from the Billboard charts or Cash Box, and it's also easy to assume that it
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4
Has the Okie from Muskogee gone radical on us? Not quite: Although with Chicago Wind Merle Haggard rails against the Iraq war in ''Rebuild America First,'' ''Where's All the Freedom'' seems to argue a
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5
At this point, Merle Haggard's musical territory is staked out and grazed to the nubbin: slow, sauntering ballads, up-tempo country boogie, occasionally a little Western swing.
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6
Duet mania seems to be sweeping country music, but the trend is getting old fast.
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7
In 2002, BGO released Merle Haggard's 1971 albumHagand 1972 effortLet Me Tell You About a Songon a single CD.
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8
LikeSwinging Doorsbefore it,Branded Man/I Threw Away the Roseis merely a collection of songs pieced together to cash in on a couple of hit singles.
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9
Part of Universal's massive20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection, this 12-song budget set draws on songs from Haggard's tenure with MCA.
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10
On his '90s comeback album, If I Could Only Fly, this country legend makes a reference to the "roaring '80s.
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11
Haggard managed four top 40 singles from this album, but it's a typically uneven product from the singer's Epic days.
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12
Though it is a bit uneven, 5:01 Blues is a mature, subtle and often engaging latter-day release from Merle Haggard.
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16
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
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17
Merle Haggard has worn a lot of different hats: flag-waving reactionary and thoughtful social critic, sensitive balladeer and jazzy western swinger, hardened convict and family man.
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18
As the '90s drew to a close, Merle Haggard left major labels behind, putting out a pair of excellent records on the punk label Epitaph before parting ways with them and releasing a politically charge
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20
Mama Tried is a typically fine late-'60s LP from Merle Haggard, comprised of a number of strong originals and several excellent covers.
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21
MCA Special Products' I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink contains ten highlights from Hag's late-'70s and early-'80s recordings for MCA Records.
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24
Capitol Special Markets' Okie from Muskogee should not be confused with the 1969 live album of the same name.
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29
Rhino's More of the Best was designed to compliment the hits compilation Capitol Collectors Series that was released concurrently, and the single-disc collection certainly does cover many of the song
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59
Remember "Okie from Muskogee" and "Fightin' Side of Me," the two Merle Haggard anthems that served as right-wing rallying cries during the volatile turn of this decade? Sure, you do.
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62
Haggard was just starting to hit his commercial peak when this album came out.
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