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Released
  
1987

Release date
  
1987

Genre
  
Country music

Seashores of Old Mexico(1987)
  
501 Blues (1989)

Label
  
Epic/Sony Records

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Recorded
  
Pendernales Recording Studio, Spicewood, Texas

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Seashores of old mexico by merle haggard willie nelson


Seashores of Old Mexico is a studio album by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. It is a sequel to their enormously successful 1983 duet album Pancho and Lefty and was released in 1987.

Contents

Merle haggard willie nelson seashores of old mexico


Background

Haggard and Nelson, who would each be plagued with financial problems in the years ahead, chose to produce the album themselves. However, it did not contain a hit single like their previous duet album had and peaked on the Billboard country albums chart at number 31. The album is dominated with songs composed by Haggard, although Nelson does contribute "Why Do I Have to Choose." Two remakes are included: the title track, which Haggard had written and recorded in 1974, and Haggard's 1969 ballad "Silver Wings." Perhaps the biggest surprise on the album is the inclusion of the Beatles classic ballad "Yesterday", a song that Nelson had performed regularly in concert in the sixties but Haggard had cited as a marker of the end of the good ol' days on his 1982 hit "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)."

Critical reception

Martin Monkman of AllMusic believes the album pales in comparison to its predecessor, writing, "Alas, little of what made the earlier album so great is in evidence. At times the album sounds like a Merle Haggard record with Willie Nelson on hand as support." In his 2013 book The Running Kind, Haggard biographer David Cantwell is especially critical of Haggard's singing on "Yesterday": "His rich baritone, in especially fine form on Seashores' every other track, feels like it's been unexpectedly pumped with air and left out overnight in the chill and damp. His phrases, which normally snap off crisply or, more often, fade slowly like a sunset, here merely crumple."

Track listing

  1. "Seashores of Old Mexico" (Merle Haggard)
  2. "Without You on My Side" (Haggard)
  3. "When Times Were Good" (D.L. Jones)
  4. "Jimmy the Broom" (Haggard, Freddy Powers)
  5. "Yesterday" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
  6. "If I Could On'y Fly" (Blaze Foley)
  7. "Shotgun and a Pistol" (Haggard)
  8. "Love Makes a Fool of Us All" (Glenn Martin, Hank Cochran)
  9. "Why Do I Have to Choose" (Willie Nelson)
  10. "Silver Wings" (Haggard)

Personnel

  • Merle Haggard – vocals, guitar
  • Willie Nelson – vocals, guitar
  • Donna Faye – background vocals
  • Roy Nichols – guitar
  • Clint Strong – guitar
  • Biff Adams – drums
  • Dennis Hromek – bass
  • Spencer Starnes – bass
  • Dean Reynolds – upright bass
  • Johnny Gimble – fiddle
  • Jimmy Belken – fiddle
  • Gary Church – trumpet
  • Don Markham – sax
  • Norm Hamlet – steel guitar
  • Mark Yeary – piano
  • Songs

    1Seashores of Old Mexico3:37
    2Without You on My Side3:07
    3When Times Were Good6:40

    References

    Seashores of Old Mexico Wikipedia


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