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Haggard went on to name his band the Strangers after the record's success. The song was subsequently recorded by scores of additional country stars as an album track including George Jones , Ernest Tubb , Porter Wagoner , Ferlin Husky , as well as Liz Anderson herself and Anderson's daughter Lynn Anderson .
Goin' Home for Christmas is the 36th studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers, released in 1982. A Christmas album, it reached Number 41 on the Billboard Country album chart. [1] It was re-issued on Epic in 1984 with a completely different sleeve.
As Haggard relates in his spoken introduction to the song, "They're Tearin' the Labor Camps Down" is about the disappearance of labor camps like the one he had spent time at in Houston, California when he was a boy. The camps were homes for transplanted "Okies" trying to make a better life for themselves
"The Fightin' Side of Me" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in January 1970 as the first single and title track from the album The Fightin' Side of Me. The song became one of the most famous of his career.
Just Between the Two of Us hit number 4 on the country albums chart. In a retrospective review by Mark Deming for AllMusic, Deming wrote that the album is for "Haggard completists" and notes, "while Bonnie Owens was a good honky tonk singer, she was hardly a great one like Haggard, who seems to be holding himself back a bit musically as he defers to his spouse."
AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls the album a "frustrating listen," and a "fitfully entertaining album, equally divided between the excellent and the mediocre. A few of the throwaways are entertaining, particularly the rolling 'New York City Blues,' but songs like 'Dad's Old Fiddle' and 'My Woman Keeps Lovin' Her Man' fail to make an impression."
"Sing Me Back Home" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in November 1967 as the first single and title track from the album Sing Me Back Home. The song was Merle Haggard and The Strangers third number one.
Single by Merle Haggard and The Strangers; from the album Keep Movin' On; B-side "Here in Frisco" Released: May 12, 1975: Recorded: 1975: Genre: Country, truck-driving country: Length: 2: 16: Label: Capitol 3746: Songwriter(s) Merle Haggard: Producer(s) Fuzzy Owen: Merle Haggard and The Strangers singles chronology "