Back to the Barrooms

by Merle Haggard

Back to the Barrooms cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1980
  • Label: MCA
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:31
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Merle Haggard's 'Back to the Barrooms' returned directly to honky-tonk themes of drinking, regret, and failed romance. The album includes 'I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink', one of Haggard's major late-career barroom anthems.

Genres

Descriptors: alcohol, breakup, escapism, melodic, addiction

Tracklist

  1. Misery And Gin (2:45)
  2. Back To The Barrooms Again (2:33)
  3. Make-Up And Faded Blue Jeans (4:03)
  4. Ever-Changing Woman (2:26)
  5. Easy Come, Easy Go (3:30)
  6. I Don't Want To Sober Up Tonight (3:27)
  7. Can't Break The Habit (3:00)
  8. Our Paths May Never Cross (2:41)
  9. I Don't Have Any More Love Songs (2:59)
  10. Leonard (3:37)
  11. I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink (4:30)

Credits

  • Merle Haggard - primary artist, guitar, written-by
  • Joe Osborn - bass
  • Jerry Kroon - drums
  • Larrie Londin - drums
  • Johnny Gimble - fiddle, mandolin
  • Billy Joe Walker Jr. - guitar
  • Reggie Young - guitar
  • Larry Muhoberac - keyboards

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