Pancho & Lefty (album)

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Pancho & Lefty
Pancho & Lefty cover
Studio album by Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson
Released 1983
Genre Country
Length 35:35
Label Epic Records
Producer Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Chips Moman

Pancho & Lefty is a honky tonk album by outlaw country musicians Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, released in 1983. 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   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        Country Singles        No. 1
1983   Reasons to Quit         Country Singles        No. 6