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Merle Haggard Album: “My Love Affair With Trains/The Roots of My Raising”
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My Love Affair With Trains/The Roots of My Raising |
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Release Date:2002-05-21
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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:5017261205445
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| 1 |
My Love Affair With Trains |
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| 2 |
Union Station |
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Here Comes the Freedom Train |
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So Long Train Whistle |
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Silver Ghost |
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No More Trains to Ride |
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Coming and the Going of the Trains |
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| 8 |
I Won't Give Up My Train |
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| 9 |
Where Have All the Hobos Gone |
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Railroad Lady |
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| 11 |
Hobo |
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Roots of My Raising |
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What Have You Got Planned Tonight, Diana Video |
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Waltz You Saved For Me |
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Walk On The Outside |
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Gambling Polka Dot Blues |
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Cherokee Maiden |
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Am I Standing In Your Way |
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Colorado |
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I Never Go Around Mirrors (I've Got a Heartache to Hide) |
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Mississippi Delta Blues |
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Review - :
This import {@BGO} two-fer combines {$Merle Haggard}'s last two records for {@Capitol}, both of them from 1976. {^My Love Affair With Trains} harkens back to {$Haggard}'s {\tribute album} to {$Jimmie Rodgers} in spirit. It is narrated between cuts, offering different facts, from the history of the railroads to {$Haggard}'s personal observations. While he only contributes one original to the set ({&"No More Trains to Ride"}), it nonetheless bears a deeply personal and heartfelt stamp with cuts by {$Mark Yeary}, the title by {$Dolly Parton}, {$Dave Kirby}, and {$Red Lane}. {$Haggard} weaves an iconographic history of the rails -- from past to present to uncertain future -- seamlessly and with great taste. Likewise, {^The Roots of My Raising} is also a deep and moving personal statement. Again, there is only one original on the set ({&"Am I Standing in Your Way"}), but it is no less symbolic an album than {^My Love Affair With Trains}. {^The Roots of My Raising} garnered {$Haggard} two number one singles in the title track and {$Cindy Walker}'s classic {&"Cherokee Maiden,"} which had been a hit for {$Bob Wills} in 1941 -- {$Haggard}'s version uses the same melody. These "roots" {$Haggard} is referring to are loose and slippery; some of them are stylistic and musical roots, hence {$Jimmie Rodgers}' {&"Delta Blues"} and {&"Gamblin' Polka Dot Blues"} as well as {$Lefty Frizzell}'s {&"I Never Go Around Mirrors,"} while others seem episodically biographical, such as {$Dave Kirby}'s {&"Walk on the Outside,"} {$Norm Hamlet}'s {&"The Waltz You Saved for Me,"} and the mythical but symbolic {&"What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana?"} Together they mark an excellent bookend to the {@Capitol} period, but both albums stand up just as well on their own. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
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