A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today (1977)

About this title: One can quibble about packaging and marketing decisions regarding this music, but not the music itself. Sure, it is a little phony to see Merle Haggard dressed up like a hard-hat worker on the front, and making a joke about him leaving his lunchbox behind on the back certainly will bring to mind the line about someone being a couple of sandwiches short of a box lunch. And then there's the stupid note about the problems of the working man signed by "the girls at the office." The country fan would have been much better served by a list of the pickers on the album, because the playing is simply ... read more

Tracks:

1. A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today [Haggard]
2. Making Believe [Work]
3. Blues Stay Away from Me [Delmore/Delmore/Glo]
4. Got a Letter from My Kid Today [Zaret/Kramer/Whitne]
5. When My Last Song Is Sung [Haggard]
6. Moanin' the Blues [Williams]
7. Goodbye Lefty [Haggard]
8. Blues for Dixie [Mayo]
9. The Running Kind [Haggard]
10. I'm a White Boy [Haggard]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.