Hurtin' (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Country  »  Bakersfield
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• Release Date: September 25, 2001
• Label: Capitol/EMI Records
• UPC: 724353445423
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105778164
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #72002 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #121876 in Country (See Top 100 Country Bestsellers)
• #69 in Bakersfield (See Top 100 Bakersfield Bestsellers)

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All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Perhaps taking a cue from Columbia's theme-centered 2000 series of Johnny Cash compilations (GOD, MURDER, LOVE), Capitol gave Merle Haggard's work a similar treatment in 2001. Like Cash, Haggard was always regarded as a poet of the working class, and the four volumes of this series (HURTIN', DRINKIN', CHEATIN', and PRISON) reflect the proletarian ethos the hard-living Haggard knows so much about. The fact that his Capitol tenure encapsulated Haggard's most commercially and aesthetically successful recording years means that much more impact for this quartet of honky-tonk treasures.

HURTIN' focuses on the dark side of love, and as a man who's been through his share of marriages, Merle knows a thing or two about heartbreak. Things kick off with "Sing a Sad Song," a sad-sack anthem written by Haggard's famed Bakersfield peer Wynn Stewart. "Silver Wings," one of Merle's best-loved songs, adds a technological twist to its country tale of sadness by placing the singer's love interest on a plane headed far away. Haggard makes the Jimmy Work classic "Making Believe" his own, lending an authoritative air to the sorrowful story of denial. The string-laced "Every Fool Has a Rainbow" ends things on a bittersweet note, kissing off this batch of sad stories with elegance.

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