Down Every Road (1996)

About this title: Merle Haggard is a rarity: a complex artist whose rich scope can accurately be summarized through singles, but who has far more great material than can be fit on one or two discs. Which, of course, makes him the perfect candidate for a box set, and Capitol released the first comprehensive Hag retrospective in 1996 with the four-disc set Down Every Road. Since Haggard has such a rich, consistent body of his work -- the best of his MCA and Epic periods, two eras that are covered here, hold their own next to his seminal Capitol material -- even four discs leave behind many a great song, yet only ... read more

Tracks:

1. Skid Row [Haggard]
2. Sing a Sad Song [Stewart]
3. You Don't Even Try [Haggard/Owen]
4. Sam Hill [Collins]
5. (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers [Anderson]
6. Just Between the Two of Us [Anderson]
7. If I Had Left It Up to You [Haggard]
8. I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can [Haggard]
9. Swinging Doors [Haggard]
10. The Bottle Let Me Down [Haggard]
11. High on a Hilltop [Collins]
12. I'll Look Over You [Haggard]
13. The Fugitive [Anderson/Anderson]
14. House of Memories [Haggard]
15. All of Me Belongs to You [Haggard]
16. Mary's Mine [Ward]
17. Someone Told My Story [Haggard]
18. Go Home [Collins]
19. Whatever Happened to Me [Haggard]
20. Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive [Cochran]
21. I Threw Away the Rose [Haggard]
22. Branded Man [Haggard]
23. You Don't Have Very Far to Go [Haggard/Simpson]
24. Somewhere Between [Haggard]
25. Sing Me Back Home [Haggard]
26. The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp [Frazier/Haggard]
27. Seeing Eye Dog [Haggard]
28. The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde [Haggard/Owens]
29. I Started Loving You Again [Haggard/Owen]
30. Is This the Beginning of the End? [Lewis/Mize/Stewart]
31. I'll Always Know [Haggard]
32. Mama Tried [Haggard]
33. In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) [Parton]
34. Teach Me to Forget [Payne]
35. I'm Looking for My Mind [Haggard]
36. The Day the Rains Came [Haggard]
37. California Blues [Blue Yodel No. 4] [Rodgers]
38. I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am [Haggard]
39. I'm Bringin' Home Good News [Haggard]
40. I Can't Hold Myself in Line [Haggard]
41. It Meant Goodbye to Me When You Said Hello to Him [Frizzell/Mulkey]
42. Hungry Eyes [Haggard]
43. Silver Wings [Haggard]
44. Waiting for a Train [Rodgers]
45. Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (Women Make a Fool Out of Me) [Rodgers]
46. California Cottonfields [Frazier/Montgomery]
47. White Line Fever [Haggard]
48. Workin' Man Blues [Haggard]
49. Okie from Muskogee [Burris/Haggard]
50. I Can't Stop Loving You [Live] [Gibson]
51. Huntsville [Haggard/Simpson]
52. Irma Jackson [Haggard]
53. The Fightin' Side of Me [Haggard]
54. I'll Be a Hero (When I Strike) [Cochran/Lane]
55. Right or Wrong [Biese/Gillespie/Siz]
56. Trouble in Mind [Jones]
57. Stay a Little Longer [Duncan/Wills]
58. The Farmer's Daughter [Haggard]
59. Tulare Dust [Haggard]
60. Carolyn [Collins]
61. Someday We'll Look Back [Haggard]
62. Grandma Harp [Haggard]

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