Holding Things Together: The Merle Haggard Songbook

Various Artists

Ace

This collection of covers of Merle Haggard song includes a Grateful Dead version of Mama Tried. The album is part of Ace Records Songwriter Series.

Tracks / Musicians

The tracks and performers on this compilation are:

• Swinging Doors - Jerry Lee Lewis
• Okie From Muskogee - Roy Rogers
• Irma Jackson - Barrence Whitfield
• Just Because You Can't Be Mine - Bettye Swann
• Silver Wings - The Knitters
• The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde - Tammy Wynette
• White Line Fever - The Flying Burrito Bros
• Kern River - Dave Alvin
• Honky Tonk Night Time Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Life In Prison - The Byrds
• Holding Things Together - Merle Haggard And The Strangers
• Everybody's Had The Blues - Brenda Lee
• Mama Tried - The Grateful Dead
• Farmer's Daughter - Chip Taylor With Ghost Train
• I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am - Dean Martin
• Life's Like Poetry - Dolly Parton
• Today I Started Loving You Again - Wynn Stewart
• Sing Me Back Home - Everly Brothers
• I Can't Hold Myself In Line - Elvin Bishop
• Rainbow Stew - Country Joe McDonald
• Living With The Shades Pulled Down - George Thorogood & The Destroyers
• I'd Rather Be Gone - Hank Williams Jr.
• I Must Be Somebody Else You've Known - The International Submarine Band
• The Bottle Let Me Down - Emmylou Harris

Mama Tried was originally released on:

• Grateful Dead (Skull and Roses), Grateful Dead, 1971