Same Train, A Different Time (subtitled Merle Haggard Sings the Great Songs of Jimmie Rodgers) is the ninth studio album by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers, released in 1969, featuring covers of songs by legendary country music songwriter Jimmie Rodgers.
Haggard had already recorded a couple of Rodgers songs, having included the Blue Yodeler's "Rough and Rowdy Ways" on his 1967 LP I'm a Lonesome Fugitive while the same version of "California Blues" on this album had been featured on Pride in What I Am three months earlier.
Same Train, A Different Time includes several spoken word introductions by Haggard where he talks about the life and songs of the legendary country singer.
[1] In 1990 it became the first of Merle Haggard's Capitol albums to be re-released on CD when it was reissued by EMI-Toshiba in Japan in its entire original repertoire.
AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated in his review: "While the album is rooted in the past, the key to its success is how Haggard updates these traditional songs without losing sight of their roots.