Merle Haggard - Prison

Artist:

Haggard, Merle

UPC:

724353445324

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Description:

All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Perhaps taking a cue from Columbia`s theme-centered 2000 series of Johnny Cash compilations (GOD, MURDER, LOVE), Capitol gave Merle Haggard`s work a similar treatment in 2001. Like Cash, Haggard was always regarded as a poet of the working class, and the four volumes of this series (HURTIN`, DRINKIN`, CHEATIN`, and PRISON) reflect the proletarian ethos the hard-living Haggard knows so much about. The fact that his Capitol tenure encapsulated Haggard`s most commercially and aesthetically successful recording years means that much more impact for this quartet of honky-tonk treasures.
Haggard has more first-hand experience with the subject of PRISON than most country singers. In fact, he was serving a sentence at San Quentin when Johnny Cash played a concert there and inspired the young troublemaker to pursue a career in country music. Accordingly, some of Merle`s most acclaimed songs deal with crime and punishment. The outlaw`s tale of regret "Mama Tried," and the gospel-tinged death row narrative "Sing Me Back Home" are gems of the Haggard catalogue. "I Made the Prison Band" was written by Hag`s Bakersfield cohort Tommy Collins, but it seems made to order for Merle`s own life experience. The cold, hard facts of life have seldom been more acutely observed than in the PRISON songs of Merle Haggard.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Mama Tried
2. Sing Me Back Home
3. Green, Green Grass of Home
4. Huntsville
5. I Made the Prison Band
6. Folsom Prison Blues
7. I`m a Lonesome Fugitive
8. Life in Prison
9. Will You Visit Me on Sundays?
10. Branded Man
11. Medley: Old Time Religion/Pass Me Not/Sweet By and By: Old Time Religion / Pass Me Not / Sweet By And By

Album Information

Release Date:

09/25/2001

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Country

Subgenre:

Bakersfield

Label:

Capitol

Producer:

Jim Beavers (Compilation)

Catalog Number:

34453

Original Release Year:

2001

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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