Working Man's Poet: A Tribute To Merle Haggard Various Artists - Tribute To Merle Haggard

• 1 Misery and Gin 03:02
• 2 Footlights 04:13
• 3 Going Where the Lonely Go 04:56
• 4 Today I Started Loving You Again 02:53
• 5 Carolyn 02:35
• 6 Pancho and Lefty 04:57
• 7 You Take Me For Granted 03:35
• 8 Mama Tried 02:16
• 9 That's the Way Love Goes 03:09
• 10 Make up and Faded Blue Jeans 04:17
• 11 I'm a Lonesome Fugitive 03:10
• 12 Workin' Man Blues 02:42
• 13 Are the Good Times Really Over 04:33
• 14 Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room 03:10
• 15 I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink 03:37
• 16 The Fightin' Side of Me 03:01
• 17 My Favorite Memory 03:13
• 18 Ramblin' Fever 04:40
• 19 Sing Me Back Home 02:55
• Total Runtime 01:06:54

Info zu Working Man's Poet: A Tribute To Merle Haggard

One of Country music's all-time greats is getting a tribute album. Twenty, plus, of today's hottest acts will be lending their voices to honor the legendary, Merle Haggard.

The musical celebration, WORKING MAN’S POET: A TRIBUTE TO MERLE HAGGARD, features brand new covers of some of the living legend’s biggest hits, recorded by some of the hottest stars in Country music today. The album includes performances by: Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan, Kristy Lee Cook, Ben Haggard, Randy Houser, Toby Keith, Dustin Lynch, Joe Nichols, Jake Owen, Parmalee, Thompson Square and James Wesley.

BBR Music Group President/ CEO Benny Brown and Merle Haggard have been friends for nearly 40 years. Brown’s purpose for this album is to celebrate Merle Haggard’s incredible legacy and to endear his songs to a new generation of country music fans.

At the age of 76, the veteran singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer/bandleader is still making some of the most compelling music of his long and storied career. It almost goes without saying that Merle Haggard is widely regarded as country music’s greatest living recording artist. A rugged individualist who simultaneously embodies and transcends the genre, Haggard is both a seminal superstar and an unrepentant outsider. Over the course of a remarkably prolific five-decade career, he’s consistently shown himself to be an uncompromising creative force, far more concerned with pursuing his iconoclastic vision than with meeting the expectations of the music-industry establishment.

Along the way, Haggard has scored no less than 39 #1 country hits; won various Grammy, CMA and ACM awards; become the only California-born artist in the Country Music Hall of Fame; been the only country performer ever featured on the cover of the jazz bible Downbeat; as well as the only man to be invited to perform at the White House and invited to serve time in San Quentin Penitentiary.

His prison experiences led Haggard—who’d begun playing guitar at the age of 12 and worshipped Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell and Hank Williams—to take stock of his life and decide to pursue a career in music. Upon his 1962 release, he became a fixture on Bakersfield, California’s thriving country music scene, working manual labor jobs by day and playing local clubs by night. A string of singles for the local Tally label led to a deal with Capitol Records, and in 1965 Haggard launched an incredible string of classic hits including “Swinging Doors,” “The Bottle Let Me Down,” “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive,” “Branded Man,” “Sing Me Back Home,” “Today I Started Loving You Again,” “Mama Tried,” “Hungry Eyes,” “Silver Wings,” “Workin’ Man Blues,” “The Fightin’ Side of Me,” “If We Make It Through December” and the much-misunderstood “Okie From Muskogee.”

"Favoring sparse, no-frills production, a distinct blue-collar emphasis, and above all, wonderful and sturdy songwriting, Merle Haggard helped create the Bakersfield country sound of the 1960s, but as his career went on, Haggard became even more than that, becoming, in essence, his own quality brand. This homage features young contemporary country performers delivering tribute versions of several of his iconic songs, and while it's a fun set, it ultimately leads the listener back to Haggard's own versions, which, when you think about it, is what a good tribute should do." (Steve Leggett, AMG)

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