Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard (1994)

About this title: If you've been paying any attention at all, you know Merle Haggard ranks among the best singers country music has ever produced. What you might not realize is that he's also one of the genre's finest songwriters. For evidence, just listen to this tribute album, which finds a motley crew of roots artists performing 15 of their favorite Haggard tunes. Despite the absence of many of his best-known songs, the package leaves little doubt that, as the liner notes put it, "Haggard may be the last of a breed of great country songwriters that began with Jimmie Rodgers, and continued through Hank ... read more

Tracks:

1. Tulare Dust/They're Tearing the Labor Camps Down [Haggard]
2. Big City [Haggard/Holloway]
3. A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today [Haggard]
4. Holding Things Together [Haggard/Totten]
5. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) [Haggard]
6. White Line Fever [Haggard]
7. My Own Kind of Hat [Haggard/Lane]
8. Shopping for Dresses [Haggard/Dickens]
9. Silver Wings [Haggard]
10. Irma Jackson [Haggard]
11. You Don't Have Very Far to Go [Haggard/Simpson]
12. Ramblin' Fever [Haggard]
13. I Can't Be Myself [Haggard]
14. I Can't Hold Myself in Line [Haggard]
15. Kern River [Haggard]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.