Walking the Line (Merle Haggard, George Jones and Willie Nelson album) explained

Walking the Line
Type:	compilation
Artist:	Merle Haggard, George Jones and Willie Nelson
Cover:	Walking the Line (Merle Haggard, George Jones and Willie Nelson album).jpg
Released:	1987
Genre:	Country
Label:	Epic
Chronology:	Merle Haggard
Prev Title:	Out Among the Stars
Prev Year:	1987
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Next Year:	1987

Walking the Line is an album by American country music artists Merle Haggard, George Jones, and Willie Nelson, released in 1987.

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. 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.

Track listing

1. "I Gotta Get Drunk" (Willie Nelson)
2. "No Show Jones" (George Jones, Glen Martin)
3. "Pancho & Lefty" (Townes Van Zandt)
4. "Yesterday's Wine" (Nelson)
5. "Half a Man" (Nelson)
6. "Big Butter and Egg Man (Armstrong, Venable)
7. "Heaven and Hell" (Nelson)
8. "Midnight Rider" (Gregg Allman)
9. "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" (Merle Haggard)
10. "A Drunk Can't be a Man" (Jones, Earl Montgomery)