Merle Haggard / Willie Nelson Poncho & Lefty 1982 Columbia Vinyl LP Shrink
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Pancho & Lefty Studio album by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson Released January 1983 Recorded November 1982, Pedernales Recording Studio, Spicewood, TX Genre Country Length 35:35 Label Epic Producer Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Chips Moman Merle Haggard chronology Goin' Home for Christmas
(1982) Pancho & Lefty
(1983) Heart to Heart (Merle Haggard and Leona Williams album)
(1983)
Pancho & Lefty is a honky tonk album by outlaw country musicians Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, released in 1983. Original vinyl copies from 1983 give the album's title as "Poncho & Lefty" on the cover, as well as on the inner sleeve and the record label; the album's title track is similarly rendered "Poncho & Lefty" on the cover, inner sleeve, and label. Later editions correct the title to the intended "Pancho & Lefty". They are backed by Don Markham of The Strangers.
Background
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 country music'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.
The title track was written by Texas songwriter Townes Van Zandt and was recorded towards the end of the recording sessions. The song tells the story of a Mexican bandit named Pancho and a more mysterious character, Lefty, and implies that Pancho was killed after he was betrayed by his associate Lefty, who was paid off by the Mexican federales. In the Van Zandt documentary Be Here To Love Me, Nelson recalls how the album with Haggard was nearly completed but he felt they didn't have "that blockbuster, you know, that one big song for a good single and a video, and my daughter Lana suggested that we listen to 'Pancho and Lefty'. I had never heard it and Merle had never heard it." Lana Nelson returned with a copy of the song and Nelson cut it immediately with his band in the middle of the night but had to retrieve a sleeping Haggard, who had retired to his bus hours earlier, to record his vocal part. Van Zandt appears in the video for the song playing one of the Mexican federales. "It was real nice they invited me," Van Zandt told Aretha Sills in 1994. The song topped the Billboard country music singles chart. A second single, the sombre "Reasons to Quit," was another Top 10 hit.
Haggard and Nelson would record another album together in 1987 with Seashores of Old Mexico.
Reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic Robert Christgau (B+)Martin Monkman of AllMusic calls the album "an album by two legends that lives up to, and at one point exceeds, expectations... one gets the sense that this is a collaboration in every sense." Music critic Robert Christgau wrote "Haggard hasn't sung with so much care in years, which is obviously Nelson's doing..."
Track listing
No. Title Writer(s) Lead Vocal Length 1. "Pancho and Lefty" Townes van Zandt Willie with Merle on the last verse 4:49 2. "It's My Lazy Day" Smiley Burnette 2:50 3. "My Mary" Stuart Hamblen, Jimmie Davis Merle Haggard 3:17 4. "Half a Man" Willie Nelson Merle on first and third verse with Willie on second 4:13 5. "Reasons to Quit" Merle Haggard 3:32 6. "No Reason to Quit" Dean Holloway Merle Haggard 3:15 7. "Still Water Runs the Deepest" Jesse Ashlock Willie Nelson 2:46 8. "My Life's Been a Pleasure" Jesse Ashlock 3:25 9. "All the Soft Places to Fall" Leona Williams 4:01 10. "Opportunity to Cry" Willie Nelson 4:01price rating
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