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"Leonard" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard. It was released in February 1981 as the third single from the album Back to the Barrooms . The song reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic deems the album "not just the perfect Merle Haggard box set, it's one of the greatest box sets ever released as well, since it truly presents all sides of its subject, while offering nothing but sheer pleasure in terms of mere listening. "[1] Robert Hillburn of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Merle Haggard writes of troubled souls and sweet dreams with the ...
A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today is a studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and the Strangers, released in 1977. Even though Haggard had moved to the MCA label, Capitol created this release from tracks previously recorded in 1975 and 1976.
Single by Merle Haggard and The Strangers; from the album Keep Movin' On; B-side "Here in Frisco" Released: May 12, 1975: Recorded: 1975: Genre: Country, truck-driving country: Length: 2: 16: Label: Capitol 3746: Songwriter(s) Merle Haggard: Producer(s) Fuzzy Owen: Merle Haggard and The Strangers singles chronology "
"Bar Room Buddies" is a song written by Milton Brown, Cliff Crofford, Steve Dorff and Snuff Garrett, and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and actor Clint Eastwood. It was released in April 1980 and is featured on the soundtrack for the film Bronco Billy starring Eastwood.
In the span of two years, Haggard switched record labels, divorced Bonnie Owens, married backup singer Leona Williams, and moved to Nashville to record with Jimmy Bowen.In the CMT episode of Inside Fame dedicated to Haggard, Owens speculates that Haggard preferred climbing the ladder of success more than being at the top "'cause he did seem like he did everything he could to fall down again so ...
The LP also contains some of Haggard's most delicately sung love songs, such as the melancholy "Shelly's Winter Love" and "The Farmer's Daughter." Haggard would rerecord "No Reason to Quit" for his 1983 duet album Pancho and Lefty with Willie Nelson. Hag was reissued along with Let Me Tell You About a Song on CD by Beat Goes On Records in 2002. [1]
In his 1999 memoir My House of Memories, the singer recalls being summoned to CBS in Nashville with Ray Benson in tow where an executive casually remarked, "Well, I still don't like 'Kern River,'" and suggested, despite Haggard's run of hits in the first half of the decade, that he listen to songs by a group of assembled young songwriters [1 ...