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product_id: 4260632
title: "Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World"
brand: "merle haggard"
price: "A$269"
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reviews_count: 9
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# Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World

**Brand:** merle haggard
**Price:** A$269
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World by merle haggard
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- merle haggard enthusiasts

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## Description

Remastered. If any one album deserves credit for ushering in the Western swing revival, it's this previously buried treasure from 1970. Haggard taught himself to play fiddle before recording this album and augmented his band with members of Wills's pioneering Texas Playboys, including guitarist Eldon Shamblin and fiddler Johnny Gimble. Merle would become a more fluid fiddler in the future, and the Strangers would swing more cohesively, but that doesn't take away from the chemistry or adventurousness in this, his first effort in the genre. BGO. 2006.

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## Customer Reviews

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    Well worth the wait --
  

*by K***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 18, 2016*

Being a big-time fan of Merle Haggard, I happily ordered this double-length CD. last January 31. It was supposed to be delivered in about two weeks. Nope. Amazon was at least polite enough to send me notes every month to say it was delayed, but would be along soon, and they'd send me an update. Did I still want it?Well, yes, I wanted it, or I'd not have ordered it. So I waited, and waited. It arrived Monday, May 16. I want to tell the world -- it's terrific. Well worth the wait.  They say it's 'digitally remastered from the original tapes' and I can't disagree. The clarity is terrific. No background noises or anything.The first part is Merle’s tribute to Bob Wills, the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World.  Indeed, Wills had something to do with nearly every one of the 12 cuts. The second half is titled “It’s All in the Movies”, and is nearly all Haggard. What an amazing range of music – from foot-stomping, blue grass-type pickin’ to fabulous yodeling, blues, and just great Merle-songs. If you’re a fan of the Hag, and this CD is not in your library, you owe it to yourself to remedy that situation immediately. If not sooner. Just be sure to allow 4 months to actually be able to hold it in your own hands. I think you’ll agree with me that it’s well worth the wait!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great Western Swing
  

*by J***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2021*

Im a big fan of Bob Wills and all Western Swing. I love "For the Last Time" which included Merle & Leon Rausch on vocals. Thats the 1st time I noticed that Merle loved it too. I've been looking for this cd for a long time!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    this is an incredible album.
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 31, 2020*

Merle singing many of the Bob Wills/Johnny Duncan hits from loooong ago, and Johnny Gimble-like riffs on the fiddle. (but I think it was really Merle doing it, as Johnny had apparently taught him to do).

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*Last updated: 2026-03-04*