Roger Miller - A Trip In The Country (2022) Hi-Res

A Trip in the Country is the 11th album by American country music singer-songwriter Roger Miller. It reached No. 23 in the US Country Music chart. For the sleeve notes he wrote:

"Before the days of "Dang Me", "King of the Road" and such, I was a young, ambitious song-writer walking the streets of Nashville, trying to get anybody and everybody who would to record my songs. All in all, I wrote about 150 songs for Ray Price, George Jones, Ernest Tubb and others. Some were hits, and some were not. Here are a few of the better ones. In the beginning, I created heavenly, earthly songs."

Roger Miller revisits some of his earliest songs on A Trip in the Country, many of which were hits for artists such as Faron Young ("That's the Way I Feel"), Ernest Tubb ("Half a Mind"), and Ray Price ("Invitation to the Blues"). A couple of these songs were hits for Miller, too, in the early '60s, which makes A Trip in the Country seem less like an interesting concept and more like a dubious re-recording project. Miller's early songs were very different from the ones he wrote after "Dang Me," and exhibit little of the humor and surrealism for which he became known. The album's brush with commercial success came when "Don't We All Have the Right" saw a little chart action when recycled as the B-side of Miller's minor 1970 hit "South."