Merle Haggard Album Recommendations


I've belatedly become a fan.

What recordings should I own?
jimjoyce25

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Thanks for your suggestions. Here's a link to what purports to be the entire discography.

http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/anxietyfriend/2merlehaggard.html
OK, now the audiophile part of the question:

Are there issues involving re-masterings as with Dylan and Rolling Stones? I find in general that my tastes generally run toward the original masterings as transferred to CD. Is this an issue in Haggard's work?
I differentiate between (i) cd re-issues of the original LP masterings, and (ii) actual re-masterings of the original recordings, then pressed on cd.

I find, for example, that the cd re-issues of the original Rolling Stones LPs are far superior to the re-mastered cd versions that were issued later (2002 I believe).

So my question is: Were Haggard's pre-cd-era LPs just printed straight to disk, with no re-mastering? Or are there re-mastered versions as well? And if there are both, which are preferred?