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The Bluegrass Sessions

by: Merle Haggard

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0829305000825
Label: Mccoury Music
Manufacturer: Mccoury Music
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mccoury Music
Release Date: October 02, 2007
Sales Rank: 7164
Studio: Mccoury Music



Disc 1:
  1. Runaway Momma
  2. Pray
  3. What Happened?
  4. Jimmie Rodgers Blues Medley - Merle Haggard,
  5. Learning to Live with Myself
  6. Mama's Hungry Eyes
  7. I Wonder Where I'll Find You at Tonight
  8. Holding Things Together
  9. Big City
  10. Momma's Prayers
  11. Wouldn't That Be Something
  12. Blues Stay Away from Me - Merle Haggard, Delmore, Alton
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Editorial Review:

Album Description:
Haggard’s first-ever foray into bluegrass-to be released by bluegrass luminary Del McCoury’s McCoury Music label-includes some new Haggard penned tune, several of his favorite hit songs, as well as Bluegrass standards. The bluegrass sessions was recorded in two days of intimate living room style sessions, as Marty Stuart explains in the disc’s line notes. Each take became a performance. Merle’s singing was totally inspired, Stuart writes. In fact, he got to the point where he didn’t even go in the control room to listen to playbacks. There was no need. All of us new what we were doing was right.

Amazon.com:
The Hag's 'first ever foray into bluegrass,' as his publicist tags it, isn't really so much traditional bluegrass, even though it's produced by Ronnie Reno and released on 'grass giant Del McCoury's McCoury Music label. Instead, it's a gathering of refurbished Haggard tunes ('Big City'), several new songs from the Country Music Hall of Famer ('Pray,' 'What Happened?'), and a couple of nods toward the blues (a medley of Jimmie Rodgers songs, as well as the Delmore Brothers' 'Blues Stay Away from Me') that helped form Haggard's country-blues-and-Western-swing core. He makes no attempt to try for a high tenor head voice, throw in a few bluegrass yips, adapt to bluegrass phrasing, or go for a lightning-fast, hard-charging bluegrass sound. But he's got the right pickers to transform his country material into something resembling the bluegrass idiom, calling on Marty Stuart to play mournful mandolin like an ensemble musician and not a star, as well as famed sidemen Carl Jackson, Rob Ickes, and Aubrey Haynie. (Alison Krauss also offers a vocal duet on 'Mama's Hungry Eyes.') There are no big surprises here--'What Happened' recalls his familiar theme of America going to hell in a handbasket, and throughout he sings of a woman who left him in the lurch ('Runaway Momma,' 'I Wonder Where to Find You'). But the great country icon sounds inspired and almost rejuvenated here, giving his all, and taking pains to do some of the most disciplined singing of his career. --Alanna Nash



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - merle haggard bluegrass
very good musicians on this session, but merle haggard is still merle and blugrass instrumentation ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Not bluegrass, but it's not bad . . .
Merle Haggard is for me the Tony Bennet of country music. With age, his voice has grown mellower and ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - seaview
I'm a great Merle Haggard fan so with this CD bluegrass style is a real plus . Love it


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Good CD, Not Bluegrass.
I like the CD very much, but it not bluegrass. It's typical Merle Haggare music, only with bluegrass ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Okay but lacking
I heard an interview about this CD on the radio and they played one song "Learning to Live With Myself" which ... Read More

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