I Started Loving You Again Song

Merle Haggard

Today I Started Loving Yous Again

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Merle Haggard is known outside of country music circles mostly for his tough-guy outlaw image, with a slew of prison house and hard-living songs. But he is likewise capable of writing devastating songs about heartbreak and human nature. As with a few other great state songwriters, much of Haggard'south cloth seems to exemplify the often-quoted Shakespearean edict from Village: "This to a higher place all: to thine own cocky exist truthful." Haggard's narrators, similar the Bard's, usually have to undergo a sort of journeying to finally arrive at such truth. Haggard normally wraps it all up in less than 4 minutes. Over a loping acoustic guitar, Haggard begins the refrain in his most tender and vulnerably boyish voice: "Today I started loving you lot again/I'one thousand right dorsum where I've really always been/I got over you simply long enough to let my heartaches mend/And today, I started loving yous again." He lays in a simple seventh chord on "only long enough," a country music classic, if non a cliché, simply ane that induces shivers; you know information technology is coming, but there's still no preparing for information technology -- some things just work. "Today I Started Loving You Again" -- written with Haggard'due south one-time wife, Bonnie Owens, who too happened to be the former wife of his friend and fellow Bakersfield sound pioneer, Cadet Owens -- was something of an unexpected hit, a B-side on the "Bonnie and Clyde" single that took off on its own via listener response and requests to radio stations. With over 400 recordings of the vocal, there are certain to be some oddballs in the batch. The Lettermen, of all groups, covered the song, giving it an ultra-smooth, Carpenters-meet-the Four Freshmen approach that somehow works. This is not really as surprising every bit it offset seems when one considers the fact that Haggard, the first country artist to announced in the historic jazz journal Downbeat, has ofttimes cited Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra alongside his other influences similar Lefty Frizell and Bob Wills. Similar Sinatra and Frizell, besides every bit his friend Willie Nelson, Haggard inhabits a song, experimenting with phrasing and hanging on certain words for upshot. Though he was oft considered a insubordinate against the smooth countrypolitan audio out of Nashville, he continues the cross-pollination -- for which Wills was known -- of state music with jazz elements, as well equally rock & roll, folk, blues, and other American music forms. The original "Today I Started Loving You Over again," though, is unadulterated honky tonk; a real crying-in-your-beer song. A strong homo admits his weakness and his fault, itch back with his tail between his legs.

Appears On

Year	Artist/Album	Label	Fourth dimension
1972	Merle Haggard The Best of the Best of Merle Haggard [Capitol]	Capitol	2:twenty
1991	Merle Haggard The Best of the Early on Years	Curb	2:nineteen
1992	Merle Haggard & the Strangers Okie from Muskogee [Capitol Special Markets Compilation]	EMI-Capitol Special Markets / Pair	2:22
1994	Merle Haggard Super Hits, Vol. ii	Epic / Sony Music Distribution	three:44
1995	Merle Haggard Greatest Hits: Finest Performances	Lord's day Record Company	3:44
1995	Merle Haggard The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Album (1963-1977)	Razor & Tie	2:21
1996	Merle Haggard Today I Started Loving You Again [King]	King	3:45
1996	Merle Haggard The One & Merely	Intercontinental Records	iii:45
1996	Merle Haggard Golden Classics: 23 Classic Tracks	Double Play Records	0:00
1996	Merle Haggard The Best of the Best of Merle Haggard [Federal]	Edge / Federal Records	2:21
1997	Merle Haggard Super Hits/Super Hits, Vol. two/Super Hits, Vol. 3	Sony Music Distribution	3:44
1997	Merle Haggard Legendary Performer	Boomerang Records / Beacon Records
1998	Diverse Artists Very Best of Land [Crimson]	Cherry-red Productions	3:43
1998	Various Artists Super Hits: Cryin' Time	Sony Music Distribution	three:44
1998	Merle Haggard This Is Merle Haggard	Music Club Records	three:45
1998	Various Artists Legendary Country Songwriters	Masters	3:46
1998	Merle Haggard Back 2 Back: Merle Haggard and Conway Twitty	Double Play Records	three:45
1999	Diverse Artists World of Country & Western, Vol. 3	ZYX Music	three:34
2000	Merle Haggard Super Hit Set up	Male monarch	three:46
2000	Merle Haggard Oh Boy Classics Presents: Merle Haggard	Oh Boy	3:44
2002	Various Artists Country Lovin' [Delta]	Delta Distribution	3:33
2002	Merle Haggard David Allan Coe Presents Merle Haggard	Coe Pop Records	three:44
2002	Merle Haggard Land Legends	St. Clair	3:33
2003	Merle Haggard 24 at No. 1	Teevee Records	three:45
2003	Merle Haggard Momma Tried	Blumountain Records	2:04
2003	Merle Haggard The Drove [Madacy]	Madacy Distribution / Madacy	2:22
2003	Merle Haggard Hits	Chiliad-Tel Distribution	three:44
2004	Various Artists Signature Serial: Heart of Country	Reader's Assimilate Music	3:42
2004	Merle Haggard Collection [EMI]	EMI Music Distribution	0:00
2004	Merle Haggard Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson	Platinum Disc	2:03
2004	Merle Haggard Merle Haggard [Platinum Disc]	Platinum Disc	2:03
2005	Merle Haggard The All-time of Merle Haggard [St. Clair]	St. Clair / Essential Records	2:04
2020	Merle Haggard Time Life Presents: Merle Haggard Alive in Oakland	Fourth dimension / Life Music
	Various Artists It'due south Country [Play 27-seven]	Play 24-vii / Play 27-7	2:05
	Merle Haggard The Fightin' Side of Me [Capitol Budget Compilation]	Capitol