Let Me Tell You About a Song 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 #7 on the Billboard

Billboard charts

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 Country album chart and #166 on the Pop album chart. The lead-off singles were "Grandma Harp" and "Daddy Frank (Guitar Man)" — both reached #1.

Let Me Tell You About a Song was reissued along with Hag

Hag (album)

Hag is an album by country singer Merle Haggard, released in 1971. It was his first album with a majority of original songs in two years. It reached #1 on the Billboard Country album chart and #66 on the Pop album chart...

on CD

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 by Beat Goes On Records in 2002.

Track listing

All songs by Merle Haggard unless otherwise noted.

1. "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" – 3:23
2. "They're Tearin' the Labor Camps Down" – 3:33
3. "Man Who Picked the Wildwood Flower" (Tommy Collins) – 3:26
4. "Recitation" The Proudest Fiddle in the World (A Maiden's Prayer)" (Bob Wills
   Bob Wills
   James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...
   
   ) – 2:34
5. "Bill Woods from Bakersfield" (Red Simpson
   Red Simpson
   Red Simpson is an American country singer-songwriter best known for his trucker-themed songs.-Biography:Red Simpson was raised in Bakersfield, California, the youngest of a dozen children...
   
   ) – 3:15
6. "Old Doc Brown" (Red Foley
   Red Foley
   Clyde Julian Foley , better known as Red Foley, was an American singer, musician, and radio and TV personality who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II....
   
   ) – 3:26
7. "Grandma Harp" – 3:11
8. "Turnin' Off a Memory" – 2:48
9. "Irma Jackson
   Irma Jackson
   "Irma Jackson" is a song by Bakersfield, California-based outlaw country artist Merle Haggard, released on his 1972 album Let Me Tell You About a Song. The song, which was about the then-controversial topic of an interracial romance, was actually written several years prior to 1972, but not...
   
   " – 2:56
10. "Funeral" (Collins) – 3:18
11. "Bring It on Down to My House, Honey" (Wills) – 2:49

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
• Tommy Collins – 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
• 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

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1972	Billboard Country albums	7
1972	Billboard Pop albums	166