Album
20 Greatest Hits
2002Country · Music · Honky Tonk · Traditional Country
One of country's surest voices takes on love, politics and prison.
Tracks
- 12:11
- 22:35
- 32:43
- 43:07
- 52:55
- 62:58
- 73:06
- 82:35
- 92:42
- 102:54
- 112:48
- 122:46
- 132:20
- 143:13
- 152:41
- 162:48
- 173:08
- 182:55
- 193:27
- 202:18
About this album
This LP traces Merle Haggard's journey from unknown ex-con to country music superstar, mixing proudly sung prison tunes ("Sing Me Back Home") with love songs as devastating as the finger-picked Christmas downer "If We Make It Through December". Then there’s "Okie From Muskogee", which sets wry, nationalist lyrics to clean, rock-influenced beats. And even though "What Have You Got Planned Tonight, Diana"—combining spoken-word narration with some of Haggard’s most glorious bellows—may have originally been a B-side, the warm odyssey of frontier romance holds its own amid genuine chart-toppers.