The Peer Sessions

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The Peer Sessions
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Studio album by Merle Haggard
Released May 21, 2002
Recorded 1996–1999
Genre Country
Label Audium
Producer Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard chronology
Roots, Volume 1
(2001)		The Peer Sessions
(2002)		 Haggard Like Never Before
(2003)

The Peer Sessions is the fifty-fourth studio album by American recording artist Merle Haggard released on the Audium label in 2002.

Merle Haggard American country music song writer, singer and musician

Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band the Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the twang of the Fender Telecaster mixed with the sound of the steel guitar, vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville sound recordings of the same era.

Entertainment One Music independent record label in the United States

Entertainment One Music is an independent record label owned by Entertainment One in the United States. eOne distributes its own digital content, with physical distribution handled by ADA in the U.S. and German indie SPV GmbH in Europe.

Contents

Background

The old pop and country standards recorded for this collection were taken from the Ralph S. Peer publishing catalogue. They were recorded between 1996 and 1998 when Haggard was still with Curb Records. Fellow Country Music Hall of Fame member Roy Horton worked with Haggard in selecting the tunes, and the pair came up with 12 songs from the pens of Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmie Davis, Floyd Tillman, and Tommy Duncan, among others. [1]

Ralph Sylvester Peer was an American talent scout, recording engineer, record producer and music publisher in the 1920s and 1930s. Peer pioneered field recording of music when in June 1923 he took remote recording equipment south to Atlanta, Georgia to record regional music outside the recording studio in such places as hotel rooms, ballrooms, or empty warehouses.

Curb Records American record label

Curb Records is an American major record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963. From 1969 to 1973, Curb merged with MGM Records where Curb served as President of MGM and Verve Records.

Jimmie Rodgers (country singer) American country singer

James Charles Rodgers was an American country, blues and folk singer, songwriter and musician in the early 20th century, known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling. Rodgers, along with his contemporaries the Carter Family, was among the first country music stars, cited as an inspiration by many artists and an inductee into numerous halls of fame. Rodgers was also known as "The Singing Brakeman", "The Blue Yodeler", and "The Father of Country Music".

Reception

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Zac Johnson of AllMusic wrote: "Overall, The Peer Sessions work both as an interesting collection of classic country songs and a solid individual work." [1]

AllMusic online music database

AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web.

Track listing

  1. "Peach Picking Time in Georgia" (Jimmie Rodgers, Clayton McMichen) – 3:51
  2. "If It's Wrong to Love You" (Bonnie Dodd, Charles Mitchell) – 3:14
  3. "Sweethearts or Strangers" (Jimmie Davis, Lou Wayne) – 2:52
  4. "Put Me in Your Pocket" (W. Lee O'Daniel) – 3:51
  5. "Anniversary Blue Yodel" (Jimmie Rodgers, Doc Watson) – 3:53
  6. "Shackles and Chains" (Jimmie Davis) – 2:25
  7. "Miss the Mississippi and You" (Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Halley) – 3:01
  8. "It Makes No Difference Now" (Jimmie Davis, Floyd Tillman) – 4:03
  9. "Whippin' That Old T.B." (Jimmie Rodgers) – 3:13
  10. "Hang on to the Memories" (Jimmie Davis) – 3:06
  11. "I Love You So Much it Hurts" (Floyd Tillman) – 3:25
  12. "Time Changes Everything" (Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan) – 3:20

Personnel

William Owen Bradley was an American musician and record producer who, along with Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson, Bill Porter, and Don Law, was one of the chief architects of the 1950s and 1960s Nashville sound in country music and rockabilly

Norm Hamlet is an American steel guitarist and a member of Merle Haggard's The Strangers band for the past 43 years.

Grady Martin American musician

Thomas Grady Martin was an American session guitarist in country music and rockabilly.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Johnson, Zac. "The Peer Sessions > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved February 23, 2015.
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