Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Sing a Sad Song
2. You Don't Even Try
3. Life in Prison (False Start)
4. Life in Prison
5. You Don't Have Very Far to Go
6. Sam Hill
7. Sam Hill
8. Please Mr. D.J.
9. I'd Trade All of My Tomorrows (For Just One Yesterday)
10. (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
11. Slowly But Surely - Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens
12. Just Between the Two of Us - Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens
13. So Much for Me So Much for You - Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens
14. Falling for You
15. I Wanta Live Again
16. House Without Love Is Not a Home
17. Walking the Floor Over You
18. Worst Is Yet to Come
19. Piedras Negras (Go Home)
20. Singin' My Heart Out
21. Skid Row
22. Falling for You [Without String Overdub]
23. I'd Trade All of My Tomorrows (For Just One Yesterday) [Without String
24. If I Had Left It Up to You
25. I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
26. Stranger in My Arms - Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens
27. If I Could Be Him
28. Shade Tree (Fix-It-Man)
29. This Town's Not Big Enough

Disc 2:

1. I'll Take a Chance on Loving You - Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens
2. Our Hearts Are Holding Hands - Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens
3. Too Used to Being With You - Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens
4. That Makes Two of Us - Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens
5. Forever and Ever - Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens
6. Wait a Little Longer Please Jesus - Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens
7. Swinging Doors
8. Swinging Doors [Alternate Take]
9. Girl Turned Ripe
10. I Threw Away the Rose
11. Fugitive
12. Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive
13. Someone Told My Story
14. I Threw Away the Rose
15. Hang Up My Gloves
16. Longer You Wait
17. Bottle Let Me Down
18. I Can't Stand Me
19. Someone Else You've Known
20. High on a Hilltop
21. I'll Look Over You
22. No More You and Me
23. Mixed Up Mess of a Heart
24. I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
25. Life in Prison
26. House of Memories
27. All of Me Belongs to You

Disc 3:

1. Mary's Mine
2. If You Want to Be My Woman
3. Someone Told My Story
4. Piedras Negras (Go Home)
5. Whatever Happened to Me
6. Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive
7. Skid Row
8. Drink Up and Be Somebody
9. Gone Crazy
10. I Threw Away the Rose
11. Some of Us Never Learn
12. Branded Man
13. You Don't Have Very Far to Go
14. Wine Take Me Away
15. If You See My Baby
16. Somewhere Between
17. Don't Get Married
18. My Hands Are Tied
19. I Made the Prison Band
20. Look Over Me
21. Long Black Limousine
22. I'll Leave the Bottle on the Bar
23. Sing Me Back Home
24. Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp
25. Seeing Eye Dog
26. Will You Visit Me on Sundays?
27. Home Is Where a Kid Grows Up

Disc 4:

1. Where Does the Good Times Go
2. Good Times
3. News Break
4. My Past Is Present
5. Mom and Dad's Waltz
6. My Ramona
7. Because You Can't Be Mine
8. Train Never Stops (At Our Town)
9. You Still Have a Place in My Heart
10. Money Tree
11. Picture from Two Sides of Life
12. Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
13. I Started Loving You Again
14. Love Has a Mind of Its Own
15. Fool's Castle
16. Is This the Beginning of the End?
17. Sunny Side of My Life
18. Run 'Em Off
19. I'll Always Know
20. You'll Never Love Me Now
21. Mama Tried
22. In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
23. Little Ole Wine Drinker Me
24. Teach Me to Forget
25. Lookin' for My Mind [Takes 1-2]
26. Lookin' for My Mind [Takes 3-5]
27. Lookin' for My Mind [Take 6]

Disc 5:

1. Green, Green Grass of Home
2. I Could Have Gone Right
3. Day the Rains Came
4. I Think We're Livin' in the Good Old Days
5. Somewhere on Skid Row
6. Who Do I Know in Dallas
7. Folsom Prison Blues
8. Too Many Bridges to Cross Over
9. You're Not Home Yet
10. I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am
11. I Just Want to Look at You One More Time
12. I'm Bringin' Home Good News
13. Keep Me from Cryin' Today
14. I Can't Hold Myself in Line
15. I'm Free
16. It Meant Goodbye to Me When You Said Hello to Him
17. Who'll Buy the Wine
18. She Thinks I Still Care
19. What's Wrong With Stayin' Home
20. When No Flowers Grow
21. Every Fool Has a Rainbow
22. Hungry Eyes
23. Silver Wings

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #446340 in Music
• Released on: 1995-05-02
• Format: Box set

Album Description
5 CD box set of Merle's complete recordings for Tally and Capitol from 1962 to 1968 (except the Jimmie Rodgers tribute available separately). The classic early hits are here, like Strangers, Swinging Doors, The Bottle Let Me Down, I Threw Away The Rose, Branded Man, Sing Me Back Home, Lonesome Fugitive, and Mama Tried, but the importance of this set is that it shows Merle's developing artistry in the album tracks, abandoned cuts, and rare singles. Other sets skim the surface; this one tells the complete story.

Customer Reviews

Haggard at his BEST!!
This box set is a MUST-HAVE for any music fan. If you think Garth Brooks and Shania Twain are country singers, then this box set will set you straight. You owe it to yourself. Haggard is one of the finest voices ever in ANY kind of music. In country music, I might rank him a close second to Johnny Cash, but now is not the time to entertain such silly debates. These songs are timeless and transcendental. They will lift you up to another place.

For Hags Everywhere.
I gave this set 5 stars only because it doesn't go higher.
This is an outstanding collection of the Hag's early work. Much of his Talley recordings are here as well as his capitol.It covers 1962-1968 It is a great companion to his "Down Every Road" Which focus on his later work. Some of the hightlights are the false starts which give you a tiny peak into the recording session. Hag's voice was just as rich then as it is now.

For the true Haggard Fan
This box set is a must have for the true Haggard and country music fan. Nashville has long turned it's collective back on Haggard - and he seems to have reciprocated. Unfortunately this has left a void in young people's appreciation of what has come before the Toby Keiths and Trace Adkins' of the world. This set gives not only a great insight into who Merle Haggard is, but also into the evolution of some of the many classics he's written and recorded. We get several inside glimpses into the recording process of the classics through the outtakes that are included here. Untamed Hawk shows you why Haggard will always be a legend in country music and why he's one of the "First Name" club members of country music along with Hank, Johnny and Lefty. The only drawback is that this is a Bear Family collection and as such the artist receives precious little, if any, of the money you pay out for it.