Haggard does a great job at making these songs feel lived in and lively, but as you could expect from songs written in the 1920s and 1930s, they get a bit stale after a point. At over an hour long, it gets easy to get incredibly bored with the material halfway through. The commentaries are also automatic skips.
Cut this album in half and remove the commentary, and you just might have an alright album, but as it stands, it's just too long and repetitive for its own good (whereas his usual ... read more
| 1 | California Blues 2:50 | |
| 2 | Narration #1 1:18 | |
| 3 | Hobo's Meditation 2:43 | |
| 4 | Waitin' for a Train 2:50 | |
| 5 | Mother, the Queen of My Heart 2:38 | |
| 6 | My Carolina Sunshine Girl 2:50 | |
| 7 | Narration #2 0:38 | |
| 8 | Train Whistle Blues 3:15 | |
| 9 | Why Should I Be Lonely? 3:18 | |
| 10 | Jimmie's Texas Blues 3:33 | |
| 11 | Blue Yodel No. 6 3:11 | |
| 12 | Narration #3 0:53 | |
| 13 | Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) 3:26 |