The Best Merle Haggard Covers*

 

1. The Byrds – Life in Prison

2. Miranda Lambert – Misery and Gin

3. The Everly Brothers – Sing Me Back Home

4. Old ’97s – Harold’s Super Service

5. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Honky Tonk Night Time Man

6. Country Joe McDonald – Rainbow Stew

7. Will Oldham – If I Could Only Fly

8. The Fall – White Line Fever

9. Dave Alvin – Kern River

10. Shelby Lynne and Allison Moore – Silver Wings

11. The Melvins – Okie from Muskogee

12. David Allan Coe – Mama Tried

13. Keith Richards – Sing Me Back Home

14. Willie Nelson – Today I Started Loving You Again

15. Clint Black – I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am

16. Rosanne Cash – You Don’t Have Very Far to Go

 

Me:

The Bottle Let Me Down -- Leann Rimes

Sing Me Back Home -- Joan Baez

 

*A “tribute” album has been done since and I would include Toby Keith’s doing “Carolyn” as an add-on here. I don’t know who compiled the above list but it is interesting.