Merle Haggard Album Recommendations

the capitol years

I suspect major lables will provide their top draws with top flight recording and mastering gear. Capitol, Columbias, RCA, and others did pretty well with the recordings I've heard from them and going back a good ways too..

Try some and see.

Hi Jim,

I am a big fan of Merle, and I might suggest Big City as one of his greatest. Kern River is up there too. And his latest, The Bluegrass session I think is the title, is great. A friend in california, could go on and on. But give Big City a listen, you will be pleased.

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this person has spent a lot of time on discovery and collection.

I do think his latest album though is Last of the Breed, with Wille and Ray.

Getting Hags now fading voice at it's best will require getting into his older stuff for the most part. I think Chicago Wind is an exception however.... but mostly, yeah, ya gotta go back into the nineties and earlier.