Presents His 30th Album/A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today (2004)

About this title: In an era in which a major artist will work an album for two or three years, it seems hard to believe, but Merle Haggard managed to crank out 30 LPs between 1965 and 1974, and album number 30 is included on this two-fer CD reissue from Beat Goes On along with one of Hag's last albums for Capitol, 1977's A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today. His 30th Album was for the most part typical of Haggard's long-playing output in 1974 -- a few solid tunes dominated by plenty of filler, with the production and arrangements noticeably slicker than the glory days of his Bakersfield period. But there are ... read more

Tracks:

1. Old Man from the Mountain [Haggard]
2. Things Aren't Funny Anymore [Haggard]
3. White Man Singin' the Blues [Haggard]
4. Travelin' [Reno/Moore]
5. The Girl Who Made Me Laugh [Haggard/Nichols]
6. Honky Tonk Night Time Man [Haggard]
7. Holding Things Together [Haggard/Totten]
8. (The Seashores Of) Old Mexico [Haggard]
9. Don't Give Up on Me [Haggard]
10. A King Without a Queen [Moore/Wills]
11. It Don't Bother Me [Yeary]
12. A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today [Haggard]
13. Making Believe [Work]
14. Blues Stay Away from Me [Raney/Glover/Delmor]
15. Got a Letter from My Kid Today [Zaret/Kramer/Whitne]
16. When My Last Song Is Sung [Haggard]
17. Moanin' the Blues [Williams]
18. Goodbye Lefty [Haggard]
19. Blues for Dixie [Mayo]
20. Running Kind [Haggard]
21. I'm a White Boy [Haggard]

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