Best Haggard
Same Train, A Different Time is Merle Haggard's 1969 double album, released on Capitol Records as a tribute to country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers (1897–1933). Haggard covers songs from throughout Rodgers's career, interspersed with spoken narration about the Singing Brakeman's life and influence....
Why this score?
Ambitious Jimmie Rodgers tribute, strong critical respect, major Haggard musicianship, specialist appeal.
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Okie from Muskogee is a 1969 live album by country singer-songwriter Merle Haggard and his band the Strangers, recorded at a performance in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The title track became one of Haggard's most famous and culturally significant songs, expressing small-town American values during a period...
Why this score?
Historically significant and commercially major, but controversial politics and live-album format temper consensus.
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Allan Quatermain is an adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1887. It follows the English professional hunter Allan Quatermain and serves as a sequel to King Solomon's Mines, the 1885 novel in which the character first appeared. The book is part of Haggard's broader Quatermain seri...
