You can't go wrong with this Merle Haggard best-of: it features 11 of his greatest, and biggest-selling, songs, including the classic redneck anthems "Okie From Muskogee" and "The Fightin' Side of Me," the barroom song "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink," and his tribute to the recently downsized, "If We Make It Through December." Haggard is a giant of country music: his identification with his hardscrabble roots gives him an unerringly sympathetic ear for the hardships endured by plain working people light years away from 21st-century country glamour.
Cory L. Schwent (Bloomsdale, MO United States) - August 13, 2005
- Remakes
A few years ago, Merle Haggard sat down and remade almost all of his biggest hits in a mamoth recording session. Now all of these songs are spreading around to every cheap record company who repackages them.
