Background
Much like the successful seventies album Wanted! The Outlaws, Walking the Line features duets and solo cuts taken from various albums and repackaged as a single album. Jones and Haggard had recorded a duet album, A Taste of Yesterday's Wine in 1982 (the title cut having been by Nelson) while Haggard and Nelson had collaborated on Pancho & Lefty the same year. It reached number 39 on the Billboard country albums chart.[1] All three artists had been under contract to CBS Records in the early eighties. The album does not feature a song with all three singing.
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Track listing
- "I Gotta Get Drunk" (Willie Nelson)
- "No Show Jones" (George Jones, Glen Martin)
- "Pancho & Lefty" (Townes Van Zandt)
- "Yesterday's Wine" (Nelson)
- "Half a Man" (Nelson)
- "Big Butter and Egg Man (Armstrong, Venable)
- "Heaven and Hell" (Nelson)
- "Midnight Rider" (Gregg Allman)
- "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" (Merle Haggard)
- "A Drunk Can't be a Man" (Jones, Earl Montgomery)
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- The Best of Merle Haggard
- Close-Up
- The Best of the Best of Merle Haggard
- Songs I'll Always Sing
- Eleven Winners
- The Way It Was in '51
- Merle Haggard's Greatest Hits
- His Epic Hits: The First 11 (To Be Continued...)
- His Best
- His Greatest and His Best
- The Lonesome Fugitive
- Untamed Hawk
- Vintage Collections
- Down Every Road 1962–1994
- Yesterday's Wine 1981-1988
- A&E Biography
- 16 Biggest Hits
- For the Record: 43 Legendary Hits
- Merle Haggard's Train Whistle Blues
- 20 Greatest Hits
- David Allan Coe Presents
- 40 #1 Hits
- The Essential Merle Haggard: The Epic Years
- Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
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