Merle Haggard - 1994 info.txt
Merle Haggard - 1994
Curb
D2-77636
1994
Tracklist :
01. I Am An Island
02. In My Next Life
03. Way Back In The Mountains
04. What's New In New York City
05. Set My Chickens Free
06. Chores
07. Valentine
08. Solid As A Rock
09. Bye, Bye, Travelin' Blues
10. Troubadour
11. Ramblin' Fever
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After a four-year recording silence, he returns with his strongest record
since 1981's Big City. The first single, "In My Next Life" (written by Max
D. Barnes), is the latest entry in Haggard's incomparable registry of the
unfulfilled dreams of the salt of the bitter earth.
-- Dan Cooper
Some men might turn complacent after thirty-one years at the top of their
field. Not Merle Haggard. 1994, Haggard's first effort for Curb Records,
shows Haggard to be the same ornery, melancholy iconoclast he was when he
cut his first single for Tally Records in 1963. The
setting may be a little slicker and the drums a little louder, but beyond
the superficial differences, 1994 is a fine, typical Haggard effort.
1994 kicks off with two Max D. Barnes compositions, "I Am An Island" and "In
My Next Life." These numbers are 1994's most lavishly produced, and the fact
that neither managed to crack country radio playlists has less to do with the
tracks' quality than with country radio's current distaste for the genre's
older artists. "Way Back In The Mountains," the album's best song, follows in
the footsteps of Haggard's 1982 hit "Big City," rejecting city life and
responsibilities. Haggard indulges his love of Western Swing on "What's New In
New York City," covers Willie Nelson's lovely "Valentine," and goes Cajun-esque
on "Bye Bye Travelin' Blues." He missteps only once, on 1994's closing line-dance-
friendly reworking of the 1977 hit "Rambin' Fever."
-- CD Universe
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Ripped with :
EAC 1.0b3
Secure Mode
Test & Copy
Flac 8
All artwork is also included
in 600 dpi scans in PNG
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