Album: Back to the Barrooms by Merle Haggard (1980)
Genre: Country | Mood: Good Natured
Format: Album

Description: Back to the Barrooms is an album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in October 1980. The album's first single, "Misery and Gin", reached the top-ten on the U.S. country singles chart in late 1980; it also appeared in the soundtrack to the film Bronco Billy, in which Haggard had a cameo role, appearing as himself.

Artist Background: Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country music song writer, singer, guitarist, fiddler and instrumentalist. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the... Part of the Oildale, California music scene. Associated with Country movement.

Related Artists: George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Paycheck, Conway Twitty

Music Scene: Part of the Oildale, California music scene. Associated with Country movement.

Tags: Country, Good Natured, 1980s, Album

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Back to the Barrooms is an album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in October 1980. The album's first single, "Misery and Gin", reached the top-ten on the U.S. country singles chart in late 1980; it also appeared in the soundtrack to the film Bronco Billy, in which Haggard had a cameo role, appearing as himself.

Back to the Barrooms

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