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Merle Haggard Album: “Presents His 30th Album/A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today”
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Presents His 30th Album/A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today |
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Release Date:2004-11-09
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Country, Classic Country, Greatest Country Hits
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Label:Beat Goes On
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:5017261206404
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| 1 |
Old Man From The Mountain Video |
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Things Aren't Funny Anymore |
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White Man Singin' The Blues |
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| 4 |
Travelin' |
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| 5 |
Girl Who Made Me Laugh |
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Honky Tonk Night Time Man Video |
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Holding Things Together Video |
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| 8 |
(The Seashores Of) Old Mexico |
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| 9 |
Don't Give Up on Me |
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| 10 |
King Without A Queen |
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| 11 |
It Don't Bother Me |
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Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today |
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| 13 |
Making Believe |
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| 14 |
Blues Stay Away From Me |
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| 15 |
Got a Letter from My Kid Today |
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| 16 |
When My Last Song Is Sung |
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Moanin' the Blues |
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| 18 |
Goodbye Lefty |
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| 19 |
Blues For Dixie |
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| 20 |
Running Kind Video |
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I'm A White Boy |
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Review - :
In an era in which a major artist will work an album for two or three years, it seems hard to believe, but {$Merle Haggard} managed to crank out 30 LPs between 1965 and 1974, and album number 30 is included on this two-fer CD reissue from {@Beat Goes On} along with one of {$Hag}'s last albums for {@Capitol}, 1977's {^A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today}. {^His 30th Album} was for the most part typical of {$Haggard}'s long-playing output in 1974 -- a few solid tunes dominated by plenty of filler, with the production and arrangements noticeably slicker than the glory days of his {\Bakersfield} period. But there are still some fine cuts here, with {$Haggard} sounding spunky on {&"Old Man from the Mountain"} and {&"It Don't Bother Me,"} emotionally resonant on {&"Things Aren't Funny Anymore"} and {&"Holding Things Together,"} and confident and committed even on the weakest material. {$Hag} sounds especially feisty on {^A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today}, with the tough title cut, a handful of {\blues} workouts, a heartfelt tribute to {$Lefty Frizzell}, and the edgy {&"I'm a White Boy,"} which falls short of being racist but would probably be described as "politically incorrect" these days (not that {$Hag} would be likely to care). While the album sounds like something {$Haggard} and his band could have tossed off in a few days, there's a loose but emphatic grit to the sessions, and {$Hag} sounds like he's having a good time throughout, which makes a difference -- even if he worked on the same assembly line as the average Nashville artist of the day, {$Haggard} always cared too much about his music to let his records sink into hackwork, and these two albums stand as proof. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
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