1. Skid Row
2. Sing a Sad Song - Merle Haggard, Stewart, Wynn [1]
3. You Don't Even Try
4. Sam Hill - Merle Haggard, Collins, Tommy
5. (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers - Merle Haggard, Anderson, Liz
6. Just Between the Two of Us - Merle Haggard, Anderson, Liz
7. If I Had Left It Up to You
8. I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
9. Swinging Doors
10. The Bottle Let Me Down
11. High on a Hilltop - Merle Haggard, Collins, Tommy
12. I'll Look Over You
13. The Fugitive - Merle Haggard, Anderson, Liz
14. House of Memories
15. All of Me Belongs to You
16. Mary's Mine - Merle Haggard, Ward, Jerry
17. Someone Told My Story
18. Go Home - Merle Haggard, Collins, Tommy
19. Whatever Happened to Me
20. Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive - Merle Haggard, Cochran, Hank
21. I Threw Away the Rose
22. Branded Man
23. You Don't Have Very Far to Go
24. Somewhere Between
25. Sing Me Back Home
26. The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp - Merle Haggard, Frazier, Dallas
27. Seeing Eye Dog
28. The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
29. I Started Loving You Again
30. Is This the Beginning of the End? - Merle Haggard, Lewis, Wallace
31. I'll Always Know
32. Mama Tried
33. In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) - Merle Haggard, Parton, Dolly
34. Teach Me to Forget - Merle Haggard, Payne, Leon
35. I'm Looking for My Mind
36. The Day the Rains Came
37. California Blues - Merle Haggard, Rodgers, Jimmie [1]
38. I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am
39. I'm Bringin' Home Good News
40. I Can't Hold Myself in Line
41. It Meant Goodbye to Me When You Said Hello to Him - Merle Haggard, Frizzell, Lefty
42. Hungry Eyes
43. Silver Wings
44. Waiting for a Train - Merle Haggard, Rodgers, Jimmie [1]
45. Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (Women Make a Fool Out of Me) - Merle Haggard, Rodgers, Jimmie [1]
46. California Cottonfields - Merle Haggard, Frazier, Dallas
47. White Line Fever
48. Workin' Man Blues
49. Okie from Muskogee - Merle Haggard, Burris, Roy Edward
50. I Can't Stop Loving You - Merle Haggard, Gibson, Don
51. Huntsville
52. Irma Jackson
53. The Fightin' Side of Me
54. I'll Be a Hero (When I Strike) - Merle Haggard, Cochran, Hank
55. Right or Wrong - Merle Haggard, Biese, Paul
56. Trouble in Mind - Merle Haggard, Jones, Richard [1]
57. Stay a Little Longer - Merle Haggard, Duncan, Tommy
58. The Farmer's Daughter
59. Tulare Dust
60. Carolyn - Merle Haggard, Collins, Tommy
61. Someday We'll Look Back
62. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
63. Grandma Harp
64. It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) - Merle Haggard, Martin, Glenn
65. I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
66. If We Make It Through December
67. The Emptiest Arms in the World
68. Everybody's Had the Blues
69. Things Aren't Funny Anymore
70. Honky Tonk Night Time Man
71. Holding Things Together
72. Here in Frisco
73. Kentucky Gambler - Merle Haggard, Parton, Dolly
74. Always Wanting You
75. Living With the Shades Pulled Down
76. The Running Kind
77. It's All in the Movies
78. The Way It Was in '51
79. I Never Go Around Mirrors (I've Got a Heartache to Hide) - Merle Haggard, Frizzell, Lefty
80. What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana - Merle Haggard, Kirby, Dave
81. If We're Not Back in Love by Monday - Merle Haggard, Martin, Glenn
82. Ramblin' Fever
83. It's Been a Great Afternoon
84. Red Bandana
85. Footlights
86. My Own Kind of Hat
87. Misery and Gin - Merle Haggard, Durrill, Johnny
88. Leonard
89. I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
90. Rainbow Stew
91. Big City
92. Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)
93. You Take Me for Granted - Merle Haggard, Williams, Leona [1]
94. Pancho and Lefty - Merle Haggard, VanZandt, Townes
95. That's the Way Love Goes - Merle Haggard, Frizzell, Lefty
96. Someday When Things Are Good - Merle Haggard, Williams, Leona [1]
97. Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room
98. Kern River
99. Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Star
100. In My Next Life - Merle Haggard, Barnes, Max D.
Amazon.com
For a long time, Merle Haggard has been best known for his least-important music--"Okie from Muskogee" and its sequels, "The Fighting Side of Me" and "Are the Good Times Really Over." All three of these patriotic novelty songs are included on this four-CD box set, but they are dwarfed by the riches around them. Songs such as "Running Kind," "If We Make it Through December," and "I Started Loving You Again" eschew sloganeering to draw powerful portraits of working-class folks pulled in one direction by a longing for footloose freedom and in another by economic realities and emotional ties. The catchy directness, the poetic vernacular, and Haggard's baritone purr mark those numbers as examples of country music at its finest. Down Every Road is as crucial as Robert Johnson's Complete Recordings, Hank Williams' Original Singles Collection ... Plus, or Bob Dylan's Biograph. --Geoffrey Himes
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Down Every Road
- Audio CD: 0 pages (1996-04-02)
- Publisher: Capitol
- Label: Capitol
- Format: Box set
- Studio: Capitol
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 46 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #6744
Avg. Customer Review:
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Get this collection and prepare to get walloped 2008-07-22
Comment: To understand Merle Haggard, you must understand these facts:
1. Saving, perhaps, for one Arthur Fonzerelli, there has never been anyone as cool as Merle Haggard.
2. Merle Haggard meant every word he ever sang, even if he only meant it while he was singing it.
3. Since Merle Haggard, virtually every Honky-Tonk singer has tried to sound like Merle Haggard, and virtually every one of them has failed miserably.
In this collection you get 100 Haggard songs, and every one of 'em packs a mighty wallop.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Down Every Road by Merle Haggard 2008-06-18
Comment: Item was purchased as a gift. It was received in a very timely manner. Recipient was very pleased and has reported no problems with the CD set.
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Summary: Whole lotta Hag! 2008-04-26
Comment: I've got a lot of Hag around the house, but you don't want to hear about my wife--let's talk music instead.
Seriously though Hag fans, it's hard to go wrong with this set despite it being plenty pricey. It's a very good cross section of his finest years and disc two especially is great stuff.
To me Merle Haggard music should be a seperate genre. It's almost not fair to compare him to other country artists because no matter how you slice it, he is so unbelievably good. That voice, at once clear, effortless and moving. And what a prolific song writer as well, Hag was cranking out classics faster than others could have put a bunch of garbage on vinyl.
His songs just hit home with you and are a great source of Americana. There will never be another one like him and yet you hardly ever hear a Hag tune on the radio these days, which is kind of like taking George Washington off of the dollar bill.
I love Hag's stuff, and my wife too by the way. You'll like this one also. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: As good as country music gets 2007-03-24
Comment: When you think of traditional country music, few names command the respect Merle Haggard does. There are perhaps dozens of Merle compilations, but I find "Down Every Road" is arguably the best showcase of his versatile career.
It's amazing to see how far Haggard's career progressed from the early 60's to now; this collection covers the vast majority of his hits through 1994 or so, with a few minor exceptions ("Movin' On" isn't included, for example). It's all here. All the stories that make country music great: drinkin', trains, love gained, love lost, good-boy-gone wrong, etc. The thing is, Merle's lived most of this. The listener can almost feel the pain in his voice in a lot of this material, and it's completely believable. I guess that's why I like him so much, and one of the reasons he's been so well received over the course of his lengthy career. He's a road warrior, a survivor. I would recommend this collection to any real country music fan, but it's priceless for true Hag fans. Worth every penny.
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Not a good cover of Haggard's Career 2006-09-12
Comment: I cant believe I wasted my money on this box. It does a a lousy job of covering anything other then his Capitol years (doesnt surprise me being a Capitol box set) and I dont believe it even does a good job of that. Its a good thing its out of print and I wouldnt recommend anyone wasting their time trying to find a copy.
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