Various Artists - Tulare Dust: A Songwriter's Tribute To Merle Haggard

It's a mark of Merle Haggard's wide influence on current popular music that he could be simultaneously feted with tribute albums by the mainstream Nashville community, and by the country and rock outsiders who show up here on Tulare Dust: a Songwriter's Tribute To Merle Haggard. It's a mark of his wide songwriting net - he's written prison songs, train songs, labour songs, redneck sing-alongs, libertarian anthems, and a million love songs - that in two albums of singers doing their favourite Haggard tunes there would be only one overlap (Silver Wings, done quietly here by Marshall Crenshaw and belted out there by Pam Tillis). ~ Full Review at Channel 4 Music

Track Listing :

• Tulare Dust/They're Tearin' The Labor Camps Down - Tom Russell
• Big City - Iris DeMent
• A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today - Peter Case
• Holding Things Together - Dwight Yoakam
• Daddy Frank - Robert Earl Keen And The Sunshine Boys
• White Line Fever - Joe Ely
• My Own Kind Of Hat - Rosie Flores
• Shopping For Dresses - Steve Young
• Silver Wings - Marshal Crenshaw
• Irma Jackson - Barrence Whitfield
• You Don't Have Very Far To Go - Lucinda Williams
• Ramblin' Fever - Billy Joe Shaver
• I Can't Be Myself - Katy Moffatt
• I Can't Hold Myself In Line - John Doe
• Kern River - Dave Alvin