Merle Haggard
1981-01-xx
Nashville, TN
Opryland

The Best of The Silver Eagle #13
Aired 1981-07-13
The original airing of this show was on 1981-02-14. It was the 2nd Silver Eagle show.

As for the date, everyone else lists this as February 13 or 14. I think that is because of the
air date. Merle mentions remembering Elvis the day of the show. I believe this show was around January 8
because that was Elvis' birthday. Not sure of the day of the show, but I'm dating it in January, which fits
the air date. I would guess January 10th.

This is the most widely available Hag show on-line, but none I have found are commercial quality.
The best ones are MP3. This is no longer on DIME.

This upload differs from all others on the internet due to this REALLY being directly from vinyl.
Others I have come across (including DIME) are either FM, lossy or claimed to be from vinyl,
but have quality issues. This is from my near mint vinyl on a fresh transfer.

There is an earlier airing of this, but it is identical, except for the announcer portion.
I do not know the number or air date of the original.

This has all segments with the announcer, the show open and close. Everything except commercials.

I think I have all Merle Haggard live radio shows in one form or another and this is my favorite.

From vinyl, recorded with Sound Forge. De-clicked, saved to WAV,
converted to FLAC level 8 with Trader's Little Helper.

SETLIST
01 Intro
02 Misery And Gin
03 Honky Tonk Night Time Man
04 Old Man From The Mountain
05 Holding Things Together
06 Ramblin' Fever
07 Every Fool Has A Rainbow
08 Daddy Frank
09 Things Aren't Funny Anymore
10 Swingin' Doors
11 All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers
12 Heaven Was A Drink Of Wine
13 Silver Wings
14 Today I Started Loving You Again
15 Momma's Hungry Eyes
16 Mama Tried
17 You'll Always Be Special To Me
18 Footlights
19 Mother The Queen Of My Heart
20 Tulare Dust
21 The Way I Am
22 Okie From Muskogee
23 San Antonio Rose
24 Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
25 Close

Merle Haggard -Guitar And Fiddle
Roy Nichols - Lead Guitar
Norm Hamlet - Steel Guitar
Gordon Terry - Fiddle
Ronnie Reno - Guitar And Harmonica And Vocals
Bonnie Owens - Vocals
Don Markham - Horns
Mark Yeary - Piano
Biff Adam - Drums
Dennis Hromek - Bass

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