A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World is the eleventh studio album by Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers,released in 1970.
I Love Dixie Blues is a live album by American country singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers,released in 1973.
If We Make It Through December is the sixteenth studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers,released in 1974. It reached number 4 on the Billboard country album charts. The title track was previously released on Haggard's Christmas release of 1973,A Christmas Present. The single spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in December 1973 and January 1974,and cracked the Top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100. "If We Make It Through December" was the No. 2 song of the year on Billboard's Hot Country Singles 1974 year-end chart.
Merle Haggard Presents His 30th Album is the seventeenth studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers,released in 1974. Contrary to the album's title,this was his 17th studio album;however,the number 30 included his six collaborative albums,three live albums,one 'live' gospel album,one Christmas album,and two greatest hits compilations up to that point.
My Love Affair with Trains is the twentieth studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers,released in 1976. The LP rose to number 7 on the Billboard country albums chart.
The Roots of My Raising is the twenty-first studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers,released in 1976. It was his third release in 1976 and his last on the Capitol label until his return in 2004. It reached number 8 on the Billboard country albums chart.
Ramblin' Fever is the twenty-second studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard,released in 1977. It was his first on the MCA label after recording for Capitol Records since 1965. It was also his first album without crediting The Strangers. It reached Number 5 on the Country album chart. Ramblin' Fever was reissued on CD in 2002.
A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today is the twenty-sixth studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers,released in 1977. Even though Haggard had moved to the MCA label,Capitol created this release from tracks previously recorded in 1975 and 1976.
Songs for the Mama That Tried is a studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard with backing by the Strangers,released in 1981. A gospel album,it reached Number 46 on the Billboard country albums chart.
1996 is the forty-ninth studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard,released in 1996. It was his last studio album on the Curb Records label,and was considered something of a return to form for Haggard despite poor sales.
16 Biggest Hits is a 1998 Merle Haggard compilation album. It is part of a series of similar 16 Biggest Hits albums released by Legacy Recordings.
"A Friend in California" is a song written by Freddy Powers,and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers. It was released in May 1986 as the second single and title track from the album A Friend in California. The song reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles &Tracks chart.
"From Graceland to the Promised Land" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard. It was released in October 1977 as the only single from the album My Farewell to Elvis. The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles &Tracks chart.
"Running Kind" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in January 1978 as the second and final single from the album,A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today. The song peaked at number 12 on the U.S. country singles chart and at number 10 on the Canadian country singles chart. The song was later covered by Radney Foster for the Haggard tribute album Mama's Hungry Eyes:A Tribute to Merle Haggard. Foster's version was released as a single in 1994 and peaked at number 64 on the U.S. country singles chart. Johnny Cash also covered the song with Tom Petty on the Unearthed box set.
"Kern River" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers. It was released in July 1985 as the only single and title track from his album Kern River. The song peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.
Down Every Road 1962–1994 is a compilation album by American country singer Merle Haggard,released in 1996. It covers music from his earliest work in the early 1960s to his Epic releases of the late 1980s. The boxed set includes three CDs of material recorded for Capitol and one of Haggard's later MCA and Epic recordings.
Rainbow Stew Live at Anaheim Stadium is a live album by American country music artist Merle Haggard with backing by The Strangers. It was recorded in October 1980 and released in July 1981 on MCA Records.
Heart to Heart is a duet album by Merle Haggard and Leona Williams with backing by the Strangers,released in June 1983 on Mercury Records. It reached number 44 on the Billboard Country music chart.
Kern River is the fortieth studio album by American recording artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers,released in 1985. It reached number 8 on the Billboard country albums chart.
Seashores of Old Mexico is a studio album by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. It is a sequel to their enormously successful 1983 duet album Pancho and Lefty and was released in 1987. They are backed by The Strangers. The only charting single was a cover of a 1979 Blaze Foley song,"If I Could Only Fly",which peaked at number 58 on the 1987 Billboard Hot Country Songs singles chart.
