merle haggard

Two countdowns, one with country songs and one with the “Hot 100,” and on some days you just can’t get away from genre one or the other. While I wait for my new refrigerator to be delivered (because I just...

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My 100 Favorite Charted Country Songs: Sing Me Back Home

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 9 Nov 24

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It’s an exciting day! I’m going to meet Lou here in an hour or so (she’s giving me her extra weighted blanket). Before that happens I’m gonna eat my salad (I swear they keep one in the fridge for me ) and hit you...

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Gonna Be a Countdown: (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 14 Nov 23

Well, you people who hate country music knew your luck would run out eventually. Today is that day. At the halfway point of this countdown of songs centered around airplanes, an extension of a suggestion and discussion from...

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Airplane-Themed Top Ten: Silver Wings (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 18 Nov 21

Someday! It’s like tomorrow, it never comes. Ah, but it’ll be around for the next ten songs here as I count down favorites with someday in the title. Let’s get started where I always start…country music! [b]#10: Someday...

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Someday Top Ten: Someday We-ll Look Back (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 12 Oct 21

National Siamese Cat Day National Twinkie Day 1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporated the American Fur Company which eventually made him the first millionaire in America. 1869 - Celluloid is patented. 1947 - The first Tony Awards...

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April 6, 2020 - What happened that day?

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222623) • United States 6 Apr 20

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Such An Awesome Song

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (3452) • United States 12 Feb 20

I found a song I absolutely fell in love with instantly. It's from Blaine Larsen, originally known to me for the song "How Do You Get That Lonely". The song I want to talk about though, is called "If Merle Would Sing My Song". I...

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Country Love Top Ten: Its Not Love (But Its Not Bad) (#8)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 7 Feb 20

Hey, it snowed overnight! Where’s that dang groundhog? He’s about as accurate as the trained weathermen! Oh, well. We’re just a week away from Valentines Day and the ending of this month-and-a-half countdown of favorites that...

Good morning! I’m worn out from watching severe weather coverage in Oklahoma yesterday, so I can only imagine what the poor people who live there feel like after an intense day of rain, rain, tornadoes, and still more rain....

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Ten Favorite Mother Songs: Mama Tried (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 21 May 19

It's time to back on out of here with songs that have the word "back" in the title. It's been a lot of fun, especially since my back (that inspired the theme) is feeling good (today). Here's my favorite "back" song. [b]#1: Sing...

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Ten Favorite Back Songs: Sing Me Back Home (#1)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 6 Dec 17

Thanks to an idea sprung on me by @TRBRocks420 listing his favorite patriotic/American songs, I'm counting down my favorite songs that deal with soldiers in one capacity or another. As I mentioned earlier, eight of the ten are...

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Ten Favorite Soldier Songs: I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me (#4)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 10 Jul 17

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Ten Favorite Work Songs: Workin' Man Blues (#5)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 20 Apr 17

All hail the conquering hero! I played less terribly than everyone else last night (seriously, winning score was a measly seven under par) to take my first Putt Putt tournament of the year. Back to work this morning, and that...

And now for my number one, all-time favorite Merle Haggard song. There's nothing even close to this one in my personal taste. #1: Sing Me Back Home Set on death row, a condemned man has a final request: "sing...

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Top 20 Merle Haggard Songs: Sing Me Back Home (#1)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 17 Apr 16

Before I reveal my all-time favorite Merle Haggard song, I should give a nod to the songs that didn't make the list. It's not that I don't like these songs (it's hard for me to find a Haggard song that I don't like!), but...

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Top 20 Merle Haggard Songs: The "Also-Rans"

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 17 Apr 16

When I began I said that most of these selections were hits but that there would be a couple of curve balls thrown in. For my second most-favorite Merle Haggard song I'm turning to an album cut. [b]#2: California Cotton...

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Top 20 Merle Haggard Songs: California Cotton Fields (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 16 Apr 16

The top three! This is the cream of the cream of the crop of Merle Haggard songs. There are great, and really great, but these are the three I'd take to a deserted island with me. #3: The Way I Am This is so...

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Top 20 Merle Haggard Songs: The Way I Am (#3)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 16 Apr 16

I continue through a way-too-brief look at what are my personal favorite Merle Haggard songs. We were talking about Merle last night after the Robbie Fulks show, and both steel player Pete Finney and bass player Todd Phillips...

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Top 20 Merle Haggard Songs: The Fightin' Side of Me (#4)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 15 Apr 16

I was off yesterday because of (a) sleeping late (sleeping off the medication for my stomach), (b) going to work, and (c) leaving right from work to go to Cincinnati for the Robbie Fulks concert. (A quick aside: last year I saw...

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Top 20 Merle Haggard Songs: I Take A Lot of Pride in What I Am (#5)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 15 Apr 16

For a moment my Zevon song countdown and my Haggard song countdown are on the same number! We lost Merle Haggard, a true legend in music, a week ago. I've been counting down my 20 favorite songs of his in remembrance of a...

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Top 20 Merle Haggard Songs: Big City (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 13 Apr 16

Listing my top ten favorite Merle Haggard songs in a particular order (save for #1 and #2) is pretty hard. Most of these songs can be moved around depending on the day and the mood. This one is probably in most fans' top...

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Top 20 Merle Haggard Songs: Mama Tried (#7)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 13 Apr 16