Track Listing
1. Brown Skin Gal
2. Right Or Wrong
3. Brain Cloudy Blues
4. Stay A Little Longer
5. Misery
6. Time Changes Everything
7. San Antonio Rose
8. I Knew The Moment I Lost You
9. Roly Poly
10. Old Fashioned Love
11. Corrina Corrina
12. Take Me Back To Tulsa
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | ADD |
Album Notes
Full title: A Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player In The World (Or, My Salute To Bob Wills).Personnel: Merle Haggard (vocals); Eldon Shamblin, Roy Nichols (guitar); Norman Hamlet (pedal steel guitar); Billie "Tiny" Moore (electric mandolin); Johnnie Lee Wills (banjo); James "Joe" Holley, Gordon Terry, Johnny Gimble (fiddle); Alex Brashear (trumpet); George French Jr. (piano); Dennis Hromeck (bass); Biff Adam (drums).Recorded at Capitol Recording Studios, Hollywood, California on April 6-8, 1970.Reissue producer: Barry Feldman. Includes liner notes by Rich Kienzle.Producer: Earl Ball.In 1969, Merle Haggard released an artistically and commercially successful tribute to country forefather Jimmie Rodgers entitled SAME TRAIN, DIFFERENT TIME. The success of the project encouraged Haggard to pay his respects to another of his heroes, Western swing giant Bob Wills. In 1970, Haggard gathered alumni of Wills' band the Texas Playboys and recorded A TRIBUTE TO THE BEST DAMN FIDDLE PLAYER IN THE WORLD.Recording Rodgers' music required Haggard to update the original arrangements, since many of Rodgers' recordings featured only one or two instruments. The resulting album was reverent of Rodgers' legacy but was also distinct enough from its model to stand on its own. TRIBUTE is truer to Wills' recordings, in essence accomplishing little more than replacing one great singer (Tommy Duncan) with another (Merle). TRIBUTE's value, then, lies not in its originality but in its many strong performances and in the quality of the songs, all hits for Wills in the '30s, '40s, and '50s. Recording TRIBUTE apparently had a major impact on Haggard, who not long after began to incorporate more elements of Western swing into his own compositions.
Editorial Reviews
...A heartfelt tribute...Dirty Linen (4-5/96, p.76) - ...Haggard's rich voice and supremely expressive stylings is a treat as his voice breaks with sadness...complete with falsetto hollering and introductions to band member's instrumental breaks...
Mojo (12/01/2000)
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