Track listing

1. "Hammin' It Up" (Norman Hamlet
   Norm Hamlet
   Norm Hamlet is an American steel guitarist best known as a member of Merle Haggard's Stranger's group. In 2005 Hamlet had quadruple heart bypass surgery and recovered well at his home in Bakersfield, California. In April 2006 while on tour with Merle Haggard Hamlet's Dobro was stolen and a reward...
   
   ) – 2:00
2. "Everybody's Had the Blues
   Everybody's Had the Blues
   "Everybody's Had the Blues" is a 1973 single written and recorded by Merle Haggard. "Everybody's Had the Blues" was a live recording that became Haggard's fifteenth number one on the U.S. country singles chart. The single stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of fifteen weeks on...
   
   " (Merle Haggard) – 3:35
3. "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
   Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
   "Big Bad Bill " is a song with music by Milton Ager and lyrics by Jack Yellen, written in 1924. The song became a vocal hit for Margaret Young accompanied by Rube Bloom, and an instrumental hit for the Don Clark Orchestra...
   
   " (Jack Yellen
   Jack Yellen
   Jack Selig Yellen was an American lyricist and screenwriter.-Life and career:Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school...
   
   , Milton Ager
   Milton Ager
   Milton Ager was an American composer.Ager was born in Chicago, Illinois, the sixth of nine children. Leaving school with only three years of formal high-school education, he taught himself to play the piano and embarked on a career as a musician. After spending time as an accompanist to silent...
   
   ) – 2:50
4. "I Forget You Every Day" (Haggard) – 2:52
5. "I Ain't Got Nobody
   I Ain't Got Nobody
   "I Ain't Got Nobody" was a c. 1915 song, written by Spencer Williams. Publisher Roger Graham received co-composer credits. It became a perennial standard, recorded many times over following generations, in styles ranging from pop to jazz to country music....
   
   " (Spencer Williams
   Spencer Williams
   Spencer Williams was an American jazz and popular music composer, pianist, and singer. He is best known for his hit songs "Basin Street Blues", "I Ain't Got Nobody", "Royal Garden Blues", "I've Found a New Baby", "Everybody Loves My Baby", "Tishomingo Blues", "Careless Love", and many...
   
   , Roger Graham, Dave Taylor) – 2:52
6. "Carolyn" (Tommy Collins) – 2:45
7. "Champagne" (Roy Nichols
   Roy Nichols
   Roy Nichols was an American country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard for more than two decades. He was known for his guitar technique, a mix of fingerpicking and pedal steel-like bends, usually played on a Telecaster.-Biography:Roy Ernest Nichols was born in...
   
   , Norman Hamlet, Biff Adams) – 1:47

1. "Lovesick Blues
   Lovesick Blues
   "Lovesick Blues" is a show tune written by composer Cliff Friend and co-lyricist & producer Irving Mills. It has become a pop standard and an even more popular country song since it helped make Hank Williams famous in the 1940s. Published through Tin Pan Alley in 1922, the song was first recorded...
   
   " (Irving Mills
   Irving Mills
   Irving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...
   
   , Cliff Friend
   Cliff Friend
   Cliff Friend was an accomplished songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including "Lovesick Blues," "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down," also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series.-Early life:Friend was...
   
   ) – 2:37
2. "The Emptiest Arms in the World
   The Emptiest Arms in the World
   "The Emptiest Arms in the World" is a 1973 song written and performed by Merle Haggard. "The Emptiest Arms in the World" peaked at number three on the U.S. Billboad Hot Country Singles chart. It reached number twelve on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks....
   
   " (Haggard) – 3:19
3. "Nobody Knows I'm Hurtin'" (Haggard) – 1:50
4. "Intro to "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" – 0:57
5. "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
   Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
   "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" is a popular song with music by John Turner Layton, Jr. and lyrics by Henry Creamer. First published in 1922, Creamer and Layton advertised it as "A Southern Song, without A Mammy, A Mule, Or A Moon", a dig at some of the Tin Pan Alley clichés of the era.It was...
   
   " (Henry Creamer, J. Turner Layton) – 2:04
6. "Okie from Muskogee
   Okie from Muskogee (song)
   "Okie from Muskogee" is an American country music song performed by its co-writer, Merle Haggard. Released in September 1969, the song became one of the most famous of his career.-Background:...
   
   " (Haggard, Eddie Burris) – 3:00
7. "I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
   I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
   "I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me" is a 1972 single written and recorded by Merle Haggard. "I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me" was Haggard's fourteenth number one on the U.S. country singles chart. It was number one for a single week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the chart.-Chart...
   
   " (Haggard) – 2:45
8. "Finale" – 1:01

Personnel

• Merle Haggard – vocals, guitar
• Roy Nichols
  Roy Nichols
  Roy Nichols was an American country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard for more than two decades. He was known for his guitar technique, a mix of fingerpicking and pedal steel-like bends, usually played on a Telecaster.-Biography:Roy Ernest Nichols was born in...
  
   – guitar, harmonica
• Norman Hamlet
  Norm Hamlet
  Norm Hamlet is an American steel guitarist best known as a member of Merle Haggard's Stranger's group. In 2005 Hamlet had quadruple heart bypass surgery and recovered well at his home in Bakersfield, California. In April 2006 while on tour with Merle Haggard Hamlet's Dobro was stolen and a reward...
  
   – pedal steel guitar, dobro
• Dennis Hromek – bass
• Biff Adam – drums
• Johnny Gimble
  Johnny Gimble
  John Paul Gimble , better known as Johnny Gimble, is an American country musician associated with Western swing. He is an award-winning fiddle player and considered one of the most impressive fiddlers in the genre's history....
  
   – fiddle
• Mark Yeary – piano
• Bonnie Owens
  Bonnie Owens
  Bonnie Owens , born Bonnie Campbell, was an American country music singer who was married to Buck Owens and later Merle Haggard.-Biography:...
  
  – vocals
• The Dixie Land Express – horns

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