MERLE HAGGARD - THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY ALBUM

ARTIST:

Merle Haggard

TITLE:

The 25th Anniversary Album

LABEL:

EMI

CATNO:

EMS 1313

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FORMAT:

Vinyl record

DESCRIPTION:

348/292

PRICE:

£4.98

RELEASED YEAR:

1988

SLEEVE:

Very Good Plus (VG+)

MEDIA:

Very Good Plus (VG+)

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Please Mr D.J.

I Wonder What She'll Think About Me Leaving

Life's Like Poetry

Holding Things Together

I've Done It All

Home Is Where A Kid Grows Up

The Girl Turned Ripe

Irma Jackson

White Man Singing The Blues

Love And Honor

I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can

The Farmer's Daughter

Wine Take Me Away

I Wonder Where I'll Find You At Tonight

Someone Told My Story

After Loving You

A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today

I Can't Hold Myself In Line

The Way It Was In '51

Silver Wings

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Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Haggard was born in Oildale, California, during the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launch a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class that occasionally contained themes contrary to the prevailing anti-Vietnam War sentiment of much popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s. He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), a BMI Icon Award (2006), and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977), Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997). He died on April 6, 2016 — his 79th birthday — at his ranch in Shasta County, California, having recently suffered from double pneumonia. Haggard's last recording, a song called "Kern River Blues", described his departure from Bakersfield in the late 1970s and his displeasure with politicians. The song was recorded February 9, 2016, and features his son Ben on guitar. This record was released on May 12, 2016. Haggard endorsed Fender guitars and had a Custom Artist signature model Telecaster. The guitar is a modified Telecaster Thinline with laminated top of figured maple, set neck with deep carved heel, birdseye maple fingerboard with 22 jumbo frets, ivoroid pickguard and binding, gold hardware, abalone Tuff Dog Tele peghead inlay, 2-Colour Sunburst finish, and a pair of Fender Texas Special Tele single-coil pickups with custom-wired 4-way pickup switching. He also played six-string acoustic models. In 2001, C. F. Martin & Company introduced a limited edition Merle Haggard Signature Edition 000-28SMH acoustic guitar available with or without factory-installed electronics. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.