Pancho & Lefty (album)

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Pancho & Lefty
Studio album by Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson
Released	1983
Genre	Country

Pancho & Lefty is a honky tonk album by outlaw country musicians Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). A blockbuster album, Pancho & Lefty dominated country music for the year and helped establish both artists as two of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed of the genre. Nelson and Haggard were two of Nashville's biggest artists of the time, the former at his creative peak and the latter having just released a successful comeback (Big City) two years previously.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Pancho and Lefty" (written by Townes van Zandt)
2. "It's My Lazy Day"
3. "My Mary"
4. "Half a Man"
5. "Reasons to Quit"
6. "No Reason to Quit"
7. "Still Water Runs the Deepest"
8. "My Life's Been a Pleasure"
9. "All the Soft Places to Fall"
10. "Opportunity to Cry"

[edit] Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album

1983       The Billboard 200               No. 107
1983    Country Albums                  No. 1
1983    Country Albums                  No. 1
1983    Pop Albums                      No. 37
1983    Pop Albums                      No. 37
1984    The Billboard 200               No. 139
1984    Top Country Albums              No. 12

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - singles

1983       Pancho and Lefty        Adult Contemporary              No. 21
1983    Pancho and Lefty        Adult Contemporary              No. 21
1983    Pancho and Lefty        Country Singles                 No. 1
1983    Reasons to Quit         Country Singles                 No. 6
1983    Pancho and Lefty        Country Singles                 No. 1
1983    Reasons to Quit         Country Singles                 No. 6