It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
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It's Not Love is an album by American
United States
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 country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...

, released in 1972. It reached #1 on the Billboard
Billboard charts
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 Country album chart. The lead off single was "It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)" which also reached #1.

Track listing

All songs by Merle Haggard unless otherwise noted.
  1. "It's Not Love (But it's Not Bad)
    It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) (song)
    "It's Not Love " is a 1972 single written by Hank Cochran and Grady Martin and recorded by Merle Haggard. "It's Not Love " would be Haggard's thirteenth number one on the country chart. The single would hit number one for one week and would spend a total of twelve weeks on the country...

    " (Hank Cochran
    Hank Cochran
    Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran was an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting during the 1960s, Cochran was a prolific songwriter in the genre, including major hits by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold and others...

    , Glenn Martin)
  2. "Goodbye Comes Hard for Me" (Tommy Collins)
  3. "My Woman Keeps Lovin' Her Man"
  4. "New York City Blues"
  5. "Conversion of Ronnie Jones" (Collins)
  6. "I Wonder What She'll Think About Me Leaving"
  7. "Shoulder to Cry On"
  8. "I'd Never Told on You" (Cochran)
  9. "Dad's Old Fiddle" (Martin)
  10. "Somewhere to Come When It Rains" (Red Lane)
  11. "I Wonder Where I'll Find You at Tonight"

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
  • Bobby Wayne – guitar
  • Red Lane – guitar
  • Ray Edenton – guitar
  • 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
  • Bill Woods – fiddle
  • Billy Liebert – piano
  • Glen D. Hardin
    Glen Hardin
    Glen D. Hardin is an American piano player, songwriter and arranger. He has performed and recorded with such notable artists as Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris, John Denver, Ricky Nelson and many others.-Career:...

     – piano
  • Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1973 Billboard Country albums 1
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