Same Train A Different Time: S: Merle Haggard: Amazon.ca: Music

1. California Blues
2. Narration #1
3. Hobo's Meditation
4. Waitin' For A Train
5. Mother, The Queen Of My Heart
6. My Carolina Sunshine Girl
7. Narration #2
8. Train Whistle Blues
9. Why Should I Be Lonely?
10. Jimmie's Texas Blues
11. Blue Yodel No. 6
12. Narration #3
13. Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)
14. Peach Picking Time Down In Georgia
15. Down The Old Road To Home
16. Travelin' Blues
17. Miss The Mississippi And You
18. Frankie And Johnny
19. No Hard Times
20. Narration #4
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Oddly enough, Merle Haggard first heard the songs of Jimmie Rodgers on Lefty Frizzell's 1951 tribute record. Just as Frizzell (as well as Hank Snow and Ernest Tubb) did, Haggard took advantage of his station atop the country charts by paying homage to country's first legendary figure. Recorded across seven sessions between August 1968 and February 1969, the double-album Same Train barely registered on radar screens upon its initial release, but it remains a loving memorial to one of Hag's idols as well as one of Hag's most sensitive and engaging vocal performances. After all, Haggard could easily relate to the displaced and disillusioned characters that Rodgers portrayed. It's also testament to Rodgers's genius that his characters stayed relevant and his music fit seamlessly into the Strangers' clothes 40 years after the fact. --Marc Greilsamer

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Oddly enough, Merle Haggard first heard the songs of Jimmie Rodgers on Lefty Frizzell's 1951 tribute record. Just as Frizzell (as well as Hank Snow and Ernest Tubb) did, Haggard took advantage of his station atop the country charts by paying homage to country's first legendary figure. Recorded across seven sessions between August 1968 and February 1969, the double-album Same Train barely registered on radar screens upon its initial release, but it remains a loving memorial to one of Hag's idols as well as one of Hag's most sensitive and engaging vocal performances. After all, Haggard could easily relate to the displaced and disillusioned characters that Rodgers portrayed. It's also testament to Rodgers's genius that his characters stayed relevant and his music fit seamlessly into the Strangers' clothes 40 years after the fact. --Marc Greilsamer

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5.0 out of 5 stars fOR THE MUSICAN, FOR THE PERSON WITH EARS, Feb 12 2004

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Tony Thomas (SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Same Train a Different Time: a Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers (Audio CD)

If you are a musican than you should understand that this is as much a Jimmy Burton album as it is a Haggard album. Jimmy plays a lot of slide, a lot of dobro, and a lot of acoustic, and a lot of electric on these records. I think he produced most of the cuts that he appears on. It is his feel for the blues side of Country music that has created some of the best records by Haggard and Jerry Lee Lewis. He's the reigning master of rockabilly and one of the best producers of all time.

Burton actually was a bluegrass dobro player as a kid who got into rock as the guitarist in Ricky Nelson's original band. He's the one that taught Elvis how to play guitar and play well and brought the revival of his career in the Hawaii 1970 concert where Elvis played Scotty Moore's guitar and Scotty Played Elvis's. He was the person who put together the great Hotband that was supposed to be the basis for a new supertooled country rock revival of the KING. Unfortunately, the Kind died ,but Emmy Lou Harris, the backup woman singer in the band, took that band with Burton producing a lot of it to Stardom.

Not to say this is not one of Haggard's best. Haggard has respect for the history of the music. You see it not only on this great album, but in his Bob Wills Album and his Emmet Miller album and in some the great things he done on songs by singers like good old Left Frizzel.

Haggard's voice is so strong, his wryness is never so sharp as here, and he has the strength and dignity not to ever try to immitate Jimmy Rogers. He just sings his heart out on these songs.

I think anyone who is serious about signing, playing, or arranging blues, acoustic country, bluegrass, or western swing should study this album. The only problem with it is that once you get it on the CD player, it is hell to get it off. It;s hell to get it off repeat.

Thanks Merle, Thanks Jimmy Burton and thanks Mr. Rodgers!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dynamite Combo, Jan 10 2004

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Ken Dacey (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Same Train A Different Time: S (Audio CD)

I first heard this album in 69. My dad bought it but wasn't a country music fan he loved all those old Jimmie Rodgers songs of the depression era though.I loved country music and Merle Haggard.He taught me all about the depression and what the songs meant and I tought him about Merle Haggard and country music a combo that we came to love and sing for years to come. Simple music about tough times. Haggards voice at its finest and the Strangers are fabulous with Norman Hamlett on the steel and the dobros are an exceptional addition to the up tempo Dixieland sound.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best Tribute works ever assembled, Jun 18 2002

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Hershel Brown (Pine Bluff ,Arkansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Same Train a Different Time: a Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers (Audio CD)

This cd is the best tribute works that I have ever heard...In this tribute Merle Brings the music of Jimmie Rodgers to life in a way that even the most critical Rodgers purest will be impressed....Merle does not set out to immitate ,he brings to us his interpretation of the music as he feels it.He inserts bits of history on jimmie Rodgers between songs.I promise you if you are a Jimmie Rodgers and Merle Haggadd Fan .You will recognize these works as masterpieces.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the"Hag"
This may well be the best recording Merle Haggard ever made.He put feeling in these songs of Jimmie Rodgers that I have never heard in any of his other songs. Read more

Published on Jan 21 2002 by Richard D. Bailey

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless Recording---Timeless Material
I had wanted to get this recording shortly after it came out in 1969, but never got around to it for 32 years. Read more

Published on Jan 16 2002 by J. Brodnicki