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I took a turn with the Merle Haggard classic in honor of my 101 year old Grandmother! She's still kickin'! And Merle is her favorite. It's in my player.

God bless her and you did a good thing Merle Haggard is probably one of the better song writers of his time.your grandmother knows what she like and likes what she knows.

Great tune ... The GD covered it many a time
Love the Bakersfield players and sound

Loved the vocals and overdubs
is that slide guitar for the solo ?
Very nice !
You make it sound so easy
- Tom

I sure enjoyed that Paul! Thanks for posting it!

Classic Haggard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_9mqM2X4PI

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Joewillplay wrote:God bless her and you did a good thing Merle Haggard is probably one of the better song writers of his time.your grandmother knows what she like and likes what she knows.

Thanks.

Deadguitars wrote:Great tune ... The GD covered it many a time
Love the Bakersfield players and sound

I didn't know they covered that. I was in a band once with all GD fans. We covered "good lovin'" I was all "why are we playing this so slow?!?!?" Then I found out they knew it from the dead. I was like "boys, we need to get on track with the Rascals version! It's bangin'!"

Deadguitars wrote:Loved the vocals and overdubs
is that slide guitar for the solo ?
Very nice !
You make it sound so easy
- Tom

Thanks! It was doubled lead vocals, doubled one harmony part, then added two more. The lead guitar work is doubled and fully panned as well. No, it's not slide. That's a bend at the end of the solo. I still can't play slide. Per usual for me I played all guitar parts on my 4 string cigar box guitar seen here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_wuZdKCMwE

This one actually was easy. I got it done MUCH faster than usual. Start to upload was maybe 5-6 hours.

J-HALEY wrote:I sure enjoyed that Paul! Thanks for posting it!

I was waiting for you Jeff! Thanks man!

KLUGMO wrote:Classic Haggard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_9mqM2X4PI

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One of my favorites is this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB7ysl-1E6Y

A real 'get down to the country' version, Paul!

Here's a video of the Dead from '87 doing it: http://youtu.be/znrQtaiUyE8 Not the best audio, but its live, not just a still picture with music, and Jerry was still kicking then.

Thanks Mike. I sought out a Dead version this morning out of curiosity. I'll keep my opinion to myself out of respect for deadguitars.

Nice job Paul! I think there is a slice of country boy in you for sure. I really wanted to lay a little Tele spank on top of that.

Thanks man! Gotta LOVE that tele spank!

neanderpaul wrote:Thanks Mike. I sought out a Dead version this morning out of curiosity. I'll keep my opinion to myself out of respect for deadguitars.

Aint no biggie .... The GD is def not for everyone -esp if you are into nice tight arrangements and sweet vocals
Great job on your version N.Paul !