One of the original Bakersfield outlaws, he wears his life on a craggy face that seems to be chiseled from granite. Album starts with his 1969 Okie from Muskogee, an anthem to return to one's roots, which he does with the next nine songs.
The Fugitive, Sing Me Back Home, Mama Tried, and The Fightin' Side of Me reveal his outlaw ways with the law, family, and society in general. Mama's Hungry Eyes tells of a husband and father who tries to provide for his family. All of that is enough to bring anybody down low enough to believe that Everybody's Had the Blues.
Today I Started Loving You Again, Carolyn, and I Threw Away the Rose are ballads to love found and lost.
Excellent compilation of a legend.
