Name: Best Of The '90s, Vol. 01
Brand: Haggard, Merle
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Best Of The '90s, Vol. 01

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Album: Best Of The '90s, Vol. 01
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Ramblin' Fever	More Info...
2)	Chores	More Info...
3)	I Am An Island	More Info...
4)	What's New In New York City	More Info...
5)	Today I Started Loving You Again	More Info...
6)	Me And Crippled Soldiers	More Info...
7)	When It Rains It Pours	More Info...
8)	Blue Jungle	More Info...
9)	Sometimes I Dream	More Info...
10)	Untanglin' My Mind	More Info...
11)	Sin City Blues	More Info...
12)	Five Days A Week	More Info...

Album: Best Of The '90s, Vol. 01
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Ramblin' Fever	More Info...
2)	Chores	More Info...
3)	I Am An Island	More Info...
4)	What's New In New York City	More Info...
5)	Today I Started Loving You Again	More Info...
6)	Me And Crippled Soldiers	More Info...
7)	When It Rains It Pours	More Info...
8)	Blue Jungle	More Info...
9)	Sometimes I Dream	More Info...
10)	Untanglin' My Mind	More Info...
11)	Sin City Blues	More Info...
12)	Five Days A Week	More Info...

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Merle Haggard, Jeff Carson, Johnny Paycheck.
Producers: James Stroud, Chuck Howard, Merle Haggard, Mary Yeary, Abe Manuel Jr.
Declining record sales and the rise of the "fresh country" (read: Shania Twain) radio format in the '90s may have deflated Merle Haggard's spirits, but this set makes clear that his songwriting skills remained undiminished. Here, he experiences the loss of a wife in small, significant ways in the tight "Chores" and trades on the same populist appeal of "Okie From Muskogee" with "Me and Crippled Soldiers," a classic Haggard blue-collar anthem against flag burning.
"When It Rains It Pours" is a timbale-laced foray into Jimmy Buffet territory that reveals Haggard chafing against his hitless status, but with "Blue Jungle" and "Sometimes I Dream" ("seldom I laugh / and seldom I ever cry / but there's times when I drink too much / and there's times when I lie" [lines that are classic Haggard]), he's back on his own turf. MERLE HAGGARD: BEST OF THE '90s is less a chronicle of the man's hits during that decade than of his absence from country's radar screen, and the loss it caused for fans and the country-music genre.