Rock

August, 1996

Merle Haggard's sound is hard to pin down. His music has ranged from country to Tin Pan Alley. The many sides of Haggard are present in the four-CD, 100-song boxed set Down Every Road (Capitol/Nashville). He learned from masters such as Lefty Frizzell and Bob Wills and obscurists such as minstrel yodeler Emmett Miller. The previously unreleased studio version of White Line Fever is just one standout track on this essential country music collection.Country-folk singer Bob Neuwirth's Look Up (Wate...