16 Biggest Hits

by Merle Haggard

16 Biggest Hits cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 14 July 1998
  • Label: Legacy Recordings
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 59:45
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A single-disc survey of Merle Haggard's defining singles, from his Bakersfield honky tonk years onward. The selection centres on the working-class songwriting that made him one of country's central voices.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, storytelling, ballad, traditional, personal

Tracklist

  1. Swinging Doors (2:49)
  2. The Bottle Let Me Down (2:43)
  3. I'm A Lonesome Fugitive (3:09)
  4. Branded Man (3:09)
  5. Sing Me Back Home (11:50)
  6. Mama Tried (2:08)
  7. Hungry Eyes (3:35)
  8. Workin' Man Blues (2:41)
  9. Okie From Muskogee (2:41)
  10. The Fightin' Side Of Me (2:52)
  11. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) (3:39)
  12. I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink (3:40)
  13. Big City (3:00)
  14. Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver) (4:14)
  15. Going Where The Lonely Go (4:49)
  16. Silver Wings (2:46)

Credits

  • Carlos Grier - edited by [digitally]
  • Don Cobb - edited by [digitally]

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