Thank you Music notes for this arrangment of the beautiful song One Day at a time. My "Earthly Father" (now deceased) loved this song so I have known it for years. I originally purchased the song as one of church Worship leaders selected it. We have sung it at churhc countless number of times since amd it has become a regular firm favourite. Im really glad I bought it - very good value for money especially as it has been well used.
Merle Haggard One Day At A Time (Gospel Song)
In 1969, Haggard and The Strangers released "Okie From Muskogee," with lyrics ostensibly reflecting the singer's pride in being from Middle America, where people are conventionally patriotic, don't smoke marijuana, don't take LSD, don't protest by burning draft cards or otherwise challenge authority.[38] American president Richard Nixon wrote an appreciative letter to Haggard upon his hearing of the song, and would go on to invite Haggard to perform at the White House several times.[39][40] In the ensuing years, Haggard gave varying statements regarding whether he intended the song as a humorous satire or a serious political statement in support of conservative values.[41] In a 2001 interview, Haggard called the song a "documentation of the uneducated that lived in America at the time".[42] However, he made several other statements suggesting that he meant the song seriously. On the Bob Edwards Show, he said, "I wrote it when I recently got out of the joint. I knew what it was like to lose my freedom, and I was getting really mad at these protesters. They didn't know anything more about the war in Vietnam than I did. I thought how my dad, who was from Oklahoma, would have felt. I felt I knew how those boys fighting in Vietnam felt."[43] In the country music documentary series Lost Highway, he elaborated: "My dad passed away when I was nine, and I don't know if you've ever thought about somebody you've lost and you say, 'I wonder what so-and-so would think about this?' I was drivin' on Interstate 40 and I saw a sign that said '19 Miles to Muskogee', while at the same time listening to radio shows of The World Tomorrow hosted by Garner Ted Armstrong.[44] Muskogee was always referred to in my childhood as 'back home.' So I saw that sign and my whole childhood flashed before my eyes and I thought, 'I wonder what dad would think about the youthful uprising that was occurring at the time, the Janis Joplins.... I understood 'em, I got along with it, but what if he was to come alive at this moment? And I thought, what a way to describe the kind of people in America that are still sittin' in the center of the country sayin', 'What is goin' on on these campuses?'", as it was the subject of this Garner Ted Armstrong radio program. "And a week or so later, I was listening to Garner Ted Armstrong, and Armstrong was saying how the smaller colleges in smaller towns don't seem to have any problems. And I wondered if Muskogee had a college, and it did, and they hadn't had any trouble - no racial problems and no dope problems. The whole thing hit me in two minutes, and I did one line after another and got the whole thing done in 20 minutes."[44][45] In the American Masters documentary about him, he said, "That's how I got into it with the hippies.... I thought they were unqualified to judge America, and I thought they were lookin' down their noses at something that I cherished very much, and it pissed me off. And I thought, 'You sons of bitches, you've never been restricted away from this great, wonderful country, and yet here you are in the streets bitchin' about things, protesting about a war that they didn't know any more about than I did. They weren't over there fightin' that war any more than I was."[35]
The Haggard camp knew they were on to something. Everywhere they went, every show, "Okie" did more than prompt enthusiastic applause. There was an unanticipated adulation racing through the crowds now, standing ovations that went on and on and sometimes left the audience and the band members alike teary-eyed. Merle had somehow stumbled upon a song that expressed previously inchoate fears, spoke out loud gripes and anxieties otherwise only whispered, and now people were using his song, were using "him," to connect themselves to these larger concerns and to one another.[46]
The studio version, which was mellower than the usually raucous live-concert versions, topped the country charts in 1969 and remained there for a month.[47] It also hit number 41 on the Billboard all-genre singles chart, becoming Haggard's biggest hit up to that time, surpassed only by his 1973 crossover Christmas hit, "If We Make It Through December," which peaked at number 28.[48] "Okie from Muskogee" is also generally described as Haggard's signature song.[49]
In 2001, Haggard released an album of gospel songs with Albert E. Brumley called Two Old Friends.[84] In 2002, Haggard collaborated with longtime friend and fellow recording artist Chester Smith (founder of television broadcasting company Sainte Partners II, L.P. and owner of several stations in California and Oregon) with a CD titled California Blend.[85] The CD features classic country, western, and gospel tracks performed by both Smith and Haggard.
In 2017, Haggard appeared alongside Willie Nelson in the award-winning documentary The American Epic Sessions directed by Bernard MacMahon. They performed a song Haggard had composed for the film, "The Only Man Wilder Than Me"[89][90] and Bob Wills' classic "Old Fashioned Love",[91] which they recorded live on the restored first electrical sound recording system from the 1920s.[92] It was the last filmed performance of the pair, with Rolling Stone commenting "in the final performance of Sessions, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard perform the duet "The Only Man Wilder Than Me." Haggard has a look of complete joy on his face throughout the session in the old-timey recording set-up once used by his musical heroes."[93]
During his long career, Haggard received numerous awards from the Academy of Country Music, Country Music Association, and National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy Awards) (see Awards). He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1977,[2] the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 1994,[3] and the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 1997.[4] In 2006, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and was also honored as a BMI Icon at the 54th annual BMI Pop Awards that same year. During his songwriting career up to that time, Haggard had earned 48 BMI Country Awards, nine BMI Pop Awards, a BMI R&B Award, and 16 BMI "Million-Air" awards, all from a catalog of songs that added up to over 25 million performances.[1]
In the 1970s, several rock acts responded in their own songs to Haggard's criticism of hippie counterculture in "Okie from Muskogee" and "The Fightin' Side of Me". The Youngbloods answered "Okie from Muskogee" with "Hippie from Olema", in which, in one repetition of the chorus, they change the line, "We still take in strangers if they're ragged" to "We still take in strangers if they're haggard."[118] Nick Gravenites, of Big Brother and the Holding Company, paid Haggard a tongue-in-cheek tribute with the song, "I'll Change Your Flat Tire, Merle,"[119] later covered by other artists including Pure Prairie League.[120] Despite these critiques, the Grateful Dead performed "Mama Tried" over 300 times,[121] and "Sing Me Back Home" approximately 40 times.[122]
A pioneer of the outlaw country movement, Merle Haggard was known for being a rule breaker in and out of the studio. At one point in his life, he even became a one-time resident of San Quentin Prison. But while he is known to many as a tough country singer, Haggard has actually always been open about his Christian faith. Throughout the years, various Merle Haggard gospel songs were released and surely touched the hearts of millions of fans.
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The record starts off in the most perfect way imaginable, with Lynn re-recording the first song she ever wrote, "Whispering Sea," a sweetly melancholy tune that has only deepened with time. "Everybody Wants to go to Heaven" is a swinging, energetic, gospel-rock number that highlights both the piano and the guitars. "In the Pines" is one of the most stripped-down numbers, with backing harmonies that are campfire ready and pitch perfect. "Fist City" is still all sparks and fire, and arguably packs more of a punch thanks to the slight grit in Lynn's older-but-wiser powerhouse vocals. Lynn's good friend Willie Nelson also makes two appearances, sort of. She covers his dreamy lament "Always on my Mind," and he joins her for a duet on "Lay me Down," the record's achingly beautiful final track.
Not very long. We sat out there in the studio, me and my friend John Carter Cash and my daughter and we'd go out and record for four days. We might cut 10 one day or three songs another day. It was dependent on what we were talking about. We just did what we wanted to. We were in no hurry and nobody was hurrying. We had a good time. Some of those songs took a long time.
Well you know, I was playing the guitar, singing "I Never Will Marry" and I remember singing that when I was a little girl. John Carter Cash said I was humming it in the studio and I was doing something else, and I wasn't recording. He asked me if I knew that song. I told him I heard my momma singing it when I was little. He said, "Get into the studio." So I just stepped into the recording booth, he turned the thing on and we just cut it. Just one time. One time. There's only a guitar with that song.
A lot of people talk about when your songs were banned. Was it a thrill at the time or did it seem terrifying because radio play was so important?
It was terrifying because I'd never heard of a record being banned. I didn't really understand what the deal was. I didn't think I said anything in the song that was bad, but evidently I did. I never thought that when I recorded a record, what I had to say on record it was so bad that someone had to ban it. I guess some guy thought, "I don't want my wife listening to that!" But their wives did anyway.
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