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Topic: Your favorite Merle Haggard song(s) |
Larry Behm
From:
Mt Angel, Or 97362
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Posted 21 Sep 2010 7:55 pm |
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I love to back a singer singing
The Farmers Daughter
Looking for a Place to Fall Apart
Shelly's Winter Love
Silver Wings
Sing Me Back Home
Merle does it for me, such emotion in his writing, it rips my heart out sometimes.
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Austin Tripp
From:
Westminster SC
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Posted 21 Sep 2010 8:14 pm
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"Misery and gin" and "Going where the lonely goes".
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Bob Vantine
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Freeville, New York, USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2010 8:37 pm
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Carolyn...Silver Wings...Always On A Mtn...If We Make It Thru December...Sing Me Back Home...Always Wanting You...etc , etc
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2010 8:40 pm
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The Way It Was In 51. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Leslie Ehrlich
From:
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 12:52 am
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Daddy Frank
I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
Branded Man
Mama Tried
Today I Started Loving You Again
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Owen Barnes
From:
Utopia, Texas, USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 1:54 am
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If We're Not Back In Love By Monday.  |
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Chris Brooks
From:
Providence, Rhode Island
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 4:16 am
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He's written lots of great tunes like the ones you guys have mentioned.
Lately we (Ray Cross and the Country Heartbeats) have been doing one that I didn't know before, "In the Arms of Love." I like the way it starts out very spare and "low-key," then builds to higher register with more passion.
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 4:41 am
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| Always Wanting You, All in the Movies, Carolyn. |
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Bob Vantine
From:
Freeville, New York, USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 4:45 am
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Chris....
I believe that's an old Tommy Collins song....great choice ! 
Use to be a time that we could've done 2hrs of Merle easy! 
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Jody Cameron
From:
Angleton, TX,, USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 5:24 am
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| I've always liked "Huntsville" - obscure, but has a great groove. jc |
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Michael Robertson
From:
Ventura, California. USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 5:27 am “Sing a Sad Song”
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“Sing a Sad Song”
I enjoy playing the solo.
Mr. Hamlet has such a soulful touch. |
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Bob Blair
From:
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 5:36 am
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Big City
Wake Up
And pretty much every song already mentioned. |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 5:41 am
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Today I Started Loving You Again
Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
Swinging Doors
I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
Sing Me Back Home
Mama Tried
Workin' Man's Blues
Silver Wings
Okie from Muskogee
The Fighting Side of Me
Big City
Going Where the Lonely Go
I tried to whittle it down to 10, but couldn't, so call it an even dozen. |
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Tony Farr
From:
Madison, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 5:52 am
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"You'll Always Be Special To Me"
a very beautiful song |
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Dennis Graves
From:
Maryville, Tennessee
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 5:58 am
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Someday When Things Are Good
I Threw Away The Rose |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 5:59 am
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Whittling down a Merle repertoire is tough, indeed. Tossing in a few of my favorites, not to the exclusion of any others ....
Always on a Mountain (side note - I have been amazed through the years how many bands do not get this song right!)
Misery and Gin
Carolyn
Footlights (tonight we'll kick the footlights out again) |
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 7:00 am
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"Always On A Mountain" by the man himself.
Radney Foster's cover of "The Running Kind."
And all the others already mentioned. |
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Larry Behm
From:
Mt Angel, Or 97362
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 7:17 am
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See what I mean, tons of just great songs. I think Merle might have wanted to be a steel player in another life, we are the winners here every time.
Larry Behm
I'm rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell, I live this stuff.  |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 7:39 am
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It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
Always On A Mountain also |
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David Griffin
From:
Jimmy Creek,Arkansas via Cowtown, USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 7:40 am
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"I Can't Hold Myself In Line","Things Aren't Funny Any More","Tulare Dust/Mama Tried","Everybody's Had The Blues","Heaven Was a Drink of Wine","I Set My Chickens Free" 
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Tony Rankin
From:
Land O’ Lakes, FL
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 7:59 am
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned, "I Could Have Gone Right".
I also like, "Holding Things Together". Just listen to Norm on this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Rm9hGzg6U
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 9:31 am
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| Hard to miss with a Merle tune. I'm sure this will grow into several pages. One of my all-time favorites I didn't mention is Mama's Hungry Eyes. |
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Dave Harmonson
From:
Seattle, Wa
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 9:49 am
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Too many great ones to pick a favorite, but Holding Things Together, From Now On All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers, Whiteline Fever are 3 of mine.
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 22 Sep 2010 10:38 am
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My fave's today would be "Every Fool has A Rainbow" "The Train Never stops At Our Town' and "What's Wrong With Stayin Home With Julie" 
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