Pancho & Lefty (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Pancho & Lefty
Type = studio
Artist = Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson


Released = 1983
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 35:35
Label = Epic Records
Producer = Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Chips Moman
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"Pancho & Lefty" is a honky tonk album by outlaw country musicians Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, released in 1983. A blockbuster album, "Pancho & Lefty" dominated country music for the year and helped establish both artists as two of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed of the genre. Nelson and Haggard were two of Nashville's biggest artists of the time, the former at his creative peak and the latter having just released a successful comeback ("Big City") two years previously.The album's title track and number one country single is a cover of what was arguably the signature song of legendary country-folk singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt.

Track listing

#"Pancho and Lefty" (Townes van Zandt)
#"It's My Lazy Day"
#"My Mary"
#"Half a Man"
#"Reasons to Quit"
#"No Reason to Quit"
#"Still Water Runs the Deepest"
#"My Life's Been a Pleasure"
#"All the Soft Places to Fall"
#"Opportunity to Cry"

Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album 1983 The Billboard 200 No. 107 1983 Country Albums No. 1 1983 Pop Albums No. 37 1984 The Billboard 200 No. 139 1984 Top Country Albums No. 12Billboard Music Charts (North America) - singles 1983 Pancho and Lefty Adult Contemporary No. 21 1983 Pancho and Lefty Country Singles No. 1 1983 Reasons to Quit Country Singles No. 6