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Willie Nelson will interpret the songs of Merle Haggard on the country legend\u2019s upcoming 78th solo studio album.<\/p>\n
Workin\u2019 Man: Willie Sings Merle, due out November 7, finds Nelson delivering 11 new renditions of Haggard classics like \u201cTonight The Bottle Let Me Down,\u201d \u201cOkie From Muskogee<\/a>,\u201d \u201cMama Tried,\u201d and \u201cWorkin\u2019 Man Blues,\u201d a Number One country single in 1969 that also serves as the opening track and first single from the LP.<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n The album was recorded at Nelson\u2019s Pedernales Studios in Austin and marked the final recordings that Nelson made with a pair of members in his longtime Family band: drummer Paul English (who died in 2020) and Willie\u2019s late sister and pianist Bobbie Nelson, who died in 2022 at the age of 91<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nelson has previously dedicated entire albums to the songbooks of artists like Rodney Crowell, Harlan Howard, Ray Price, and Frank Sinatra, and even collaborated<\/a> on three albums with his longtime friend Haggard: 1983\u2019s\u00a0Pancho and Lefty, 2007\u2019s\u00a0Last Of The Breed\u00a0(with Ray Price) and 2015\u2019s\u00a0Django and Jimmie, the latter of which was released just a year before Haggard\u2019s 2016 death<\/a>.<\/p>\n Even at the ripe old age of 92, Nelson remains a prolific artist, releasing studio albums on an annual \u2014 and in the case of this year, biannual \u2014 rate: Back in April, Nelson shared his Oh What a Beautiful World,<\/a> featuring a dozen tracks penned by Rodney Crowell. Counting studio, live, and collaborative albums, Workin\u2019 Man marks Nelson\u2019s 155th LP in a recording career that dates back to 1962.<\/p>\n Haggard, meanwhile, is the focus of a new Ethan Hawke-directed documentary titled Highway 99: A Double Album that recently premiered at the Telluride Film Festival.<\/p>\n Workin\u2019 Man: Willie Sings Merle Track List<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Workin\u2019 Man Blues Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Willie Nelson will interpret the songs of Merle Haggard on the country legend\u2019s upcoming 78th solo studio album. Workin\u2019 Man: Willie Sings Merle, due out November 7, finds Nelson delivering 11 new renditions of Haggard classics like \u201cTonight The Bottle Let Me Down,\u201d \u201cOkie From Muskogee,\u201d \u201cMama Tried,\u201d and \u201cWorkin\u2019 Man Blues,\u201d a Number One […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1998568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[362603,362618,358387,362617,362229,318360,22640,362602],"class_list":["post-1998567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bobbie-nelson","tag-country-legend","tag-merle-haggard","tag-okie-from-muskogee","tag-rodney-crowell","tag-studio-album","tag-willie-nelson","tag-workin-man-blues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Willie-Nelson-Pays-Tribute-to-Merle-Haggard-on-New-Album.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
2. Silver Wings
3. Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down
4. Today I Started Loving You Again
5. Swinging Doors
6. Okie From Muskogee
7. Mama Tried
8. I Think I\u2019ll Just Stay Here And Drink
9. Somewhere Between
10. If We Make It Through December
11. Ramblin\u2019 Fever<\/p>\n