A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (Or My Salute to Bob Wills)

Infobox Album
Name = A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (Or My Salute to Bob Wills)
Type = tribute
Artist = Merle Haggard


Released = 1970
Recorded =
Genre = Country, Western swing
Length = 37:05
Label = Capitol
Producer = Earl Ball
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:djfqxqq5ldae link]
Last album = "Getting To Know The Strangers"
(1970)
This album = "A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (Or My Salute to Bob Wills)"
(1970)
Next album = "Hag"
(1971)

"A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (Or My Salute to Bob Wills)" is a 1970 album by Merle Haggard.

This album was recorded as a tribute to Merle Haggard's childhood idol Bob Wills. Haggard gathered up the remaining members of The Texas Playboys to record this tribute. Merle's band The Strangers were also present during the recording.

Haggard would do other tribute albums to Bob Wills over the next 40 years. In 1974 he appeared on "For The Last Time Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys". Unfortunately Wills suffered a massive stroke after the first day of recording. Merle arrived on the second day devastated that he wouldn't get to record with "The Old Man".

In 1994 Haggard collaborated with Asleep at the Wheel and many other artists influenced by the music of Bob Wills on an album entitled "Tribute To The Music Of Bob Wills And The Texas Playboys".

"A Tribute" was re-released on CD on the Koch label in 1995.

Track listing

ide one

# "Brown Skinned Gal" (Bob Wills) – 2:50
# "Right Or Wrong" (Paul Biese, Haven Gillespie, Arthur Sizemore) – 2:36
# "Brain Cloudy Blues" (Tommy Duncan, Bob Wills) – 3:38
# "Stay A Little Longer" (Duncan, Wills) – 3:38
# "Misery" (Duncan, Tiny Moore, Wills) – 3:19
# "Time Changes Everything" (Duncan) – 5:56

ide two

# "San Antonio Rose" (Wills) – 2:53
# "I Knew The Moment I Lost You" (Duncan, Wills) – 3:00
# "Roly Poly" (Fred Rose) – 2:39
# "Old Fashioned Love" (James P. Johnson, Cecil Mack) – 2:32
# "Corrine, Corrina" (Bo Chatmon, Mitchell Parish, J. Mayo Williams) – 2:16
# "Take Me Back To Tulsa" (Duncan, Wills) – 2:38

Personnel

*Merle Haggard – vocals, guitar, fiddle
*Roy Nichols – guitar
*Bobby Wayne – guitar
*Eldon Shamblin – guitar
*Dennis Hromek – bass
*Tiny Moore – fiddle, mandolin
*Norman Hamlet – steel guitar, dobro
*Johnnie Lee Wills – banjo
*George French – piano
*Alex Breashears – trumpet
*Biff Adam – drums

External links

* [http://www.merlehaggard.com/ Merle Haggard's Official Website]