Merle Haggard: Country music album

MERLE HAGGARD AND THE STRANGERS - "05/04/84 FRESNO, CA" (1 DVD)

01 - Air Mail Special - Intro
02 - think I'll Stay 03
03 - i think i'll Just Stay here & drink 04
04 - Swinging Doors 05
05 - All my friends ara gonna be Strangers 06
06 - What am i gonna do 07
07 - mama Tried 08
08 - today i Started Loving you Again 09
09 - Back to The Barrooms 10
10 - Workin ' man blues 11
11 - Always latiti 12
12 - i never go home Anymore 13
13 - Lookin ' for a Place ( to fall Apart -> Country music album
14 - Faded Love 15
15 - Bill Cheatum 16
16 - That's The Way Love goes 17
17 - Okie outro

Country music album Multi Cam Video + Sbd Audio >?>VHS>DVD
The video is missing for the first 37 minutes, and it cuts out a bit too soon during the exit music at the end.
Concert recording with really great quality.
He performs mama Tried as a tribute to his mother, who was actually there in the crowd.

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MERLE HAGGARD AND THE STRANGERS - "LIVE AT ANAHEIM STADIUM", 1981 (1 DVD)

01 - Misery and gin 02
02 - Back to The Barrooms Again 03
03 - Our Paths May never Cross 04
04 - Blue Yodel #9 05
05 - The Running Kind / I'm a Lonesome Fugitive 06
06 - Workingman blues / Always latiti 07
07 - Life in Jail 08
08 - Faded Love 09
09 - Fiddle Breakdown 10
10 - Sing me Back home 11
11 - Okie

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Man, this looks incredible!
Thanks!🎉 🎉 🎉

Please, if you wouldn't mind—and thank you in advance 🙂

Just like always, I'm in the game...😬

I believe it’s abundantly clear that I’ve made the list as well... 😬

Dana Anderson4 said:Just like always, I'm in the game...😬

It feels too good to be true... there's no way there are this many country fans hanging out here.😎

No, nothing at all.
I'm doing this for a buddy—trying to unteach him his obsession with Jackie Breaker, Hard to be Ray Cyrus, and all those similar acts. 🙄

Raymond Barrett12 said:Nah, no way.

Hmm, yeah, you definitely need a specific kind of vibe to get that...😁

wiredlynx3 said:This feels too good to be true. I can't believe there are actually this many country music fans in one place.😎

Well, yeah... I'm pretty surprised myself. 😕

Therefore:

wiredlynx3
brightridge19
Dana Anderson4
Raymond Barrett12
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Just wanted to mention how incredibly tough it is to track down Merle's DVDs... I really had to struggle to find them. 😠
This was sent to me by an old country fan from Japan who personally ripped everything over from VHS tapes. I'm using this to say thanks to him... 😬

wiredlynx3 said:Well, yeah—you need a very specific kind of sensibility to pull that off...😁

Absolutely.
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Noah Myers67 said:Well, damn... I'm actually pretty surprised myself... 😕

Man, we’ve got a real knack for marketing once people actually start swarming in like this...😁

Noah Myers67 said:Just wanted to mention how incredibly hard it is to track down Merle's DVDs... seriously, I had to jump through hoops just to find them... 😠
An old-school Japanese country fan sent this to me—he’s one of those guys who personally ripped everything from VHS tapes back in the day. Just wanted to give him a huge shout-out through this post... 😬

Here’s a snippet from an Interview transcript featuring Merle:

I actually met Johnny Cash back in '63 in a restroom in Chicago. I was just taking a leak when he strolls up next to me with a flask of wine tucked under his coat and goes, "Haggard, you want some of this?" That was the very first thing he ever said to me. Honestly though, I’d already been totally floored by him since watching him play on New Year's Day in 1958 at San Quentin Prison while I was an inmate there. He’d actually lost his voice the night before out in San Francisco and couldn't even sing that well; I seriously thought he was washed up, but the guy completely won over the prisoners. He just had the perfect attitude—chewing gum, looking all arrogant, flipping the bird at the guards... he basically did everything every single prisoner wanted to do. He was this tough guy from the South who showed up just because he cared about us. By the time he walked off that stage, every single person in that place was a Johnny Cash fan. There were 5,000 inmates in San Quentin and maybe thirty guitar players between them; I was easily one of the top five guys in there. Man, the day after Johnny's show, every guitar player in San Quentin was breathing down my neck, begging me to teach them how to play like him. It was exactly like how, the day after a Muhammad Ali fight, you'd see everyone out in the yard shadowboxing... except that day, everyone was just trying to figure out "Folsom Prison Blues"...

Noah Myers67 said:Just wanted to mention that tracking down Merle's DVDs is a real struggle... honestly, it was a huge pain to find them. 😠
An old-school Japanese country fan sent this to me—he’s the kind of guy who personally transferred everything from VHS tapes. Just wanted to say thanks to him through this post. 😬

Right back at you. 🙂
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Moose said:Here's one for you. 👍 Noah Myers67, thanks for this... isn't there already a female forum member on the list that I know personally? 🙂 )

Could it be brightridge19? 😬

Moose said:By the way, you’ve stirred up quite a storm in our little country music community with this Merle's DVD. A bandmate actually called me this afternoon asking, "What on earth is that Vine on the forum? How can I get my hands on that DVD?"🙂

Actually, those are two different DVDs. 😉
Man, I am so glad to see there's this much interest! 👍

Johnny Cash & Merle Haggard - "Sing Me Back Home"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI2EToAtLDc

moose said:here's one 👍
btw., you've really stirred up a hornets' nest in our little country community with this Haggard DVD.

Country community??!

So how does one even join that club?😎

😁
just checking in regarding the community treasury..

It isn't exactly what one would call a Rotary Club😁 but we are making progress, I suppose. Just a few months ago, Roger Jones5 couldn't have told you who Gram Parsons was, and Steven Hernandez9's drummer was strictly a Radiohead fan. Then, during a van ride down to Los Angeles for a concert where GP was playing, the drummer starts singing along to the chorus of Streets of Baltimore, and Roger Jones5 asks if that’s the one with In My Hour of Darkness😎

Steven Hernandez9 said:It’s definitely not exactly a Rotary Club yet,😁 but we're getting there. Just a few months ago, Roger Jones5 couldn't even wrap his head around Gram Parsons, and Steven Hernandez9's drummer was strictly a Radiohead guy. Then the other day, we're driving a van down to San Diego for a concert, Gram Parsons comes on, the drummer starts singing along to "Streets of Baltimore," and Roger Jones5 actually asks if that's the one with the *In My Hour of Darkness* album.😎

😱 😲

I see if I should set up and gram Parsons vinyl soon 😬