Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle is Willie Nelson's 78th solo studio album and his 155th album overall. It features Willie's new interpretations of classic songs written by Merle Haggard, the latest in Nelson's long history of dedicating entire albums to the work of a single songwriter or artist. Nelson and Haggard were longtime friends and collaborators who released three albums together: Pancho and Lefty in 1983, Last Of The Breed in 2007 (with Ray Price), and Django and Jimmie in 2015.
Eleven of Willie's favorite compositions were selected for the album. Nelson's new interpretations include songs from different periods of the legend's career, from tracks on his first number one country album, Swinging Doors, released in 1966 ("Swinging Doors", "Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down") and hits that marked his career in the late 1960s ("Mama Tried", "Okie From Muskogee") to 1970s classics (the heartbreaking Christmas track "If We Make It Through December", the Southern rock-tinged "Ramblin' Fever") and Merle's 1980 number one honky-tonk classic "I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink".
Produced by the artist with his longtime collaborator Mickey Raphael, the album was recorded at Nelson's Pedernales Studios in Austin and includes the final recordings he made alongside longtime Family band members "Sister Bobbie" Nelson and Paul English. Present in Nelson's personal and professional life longer than anyone else, Sister Bobbie on piano and English on drums are joined by Raphael on harmonica, Kevin Smith on bass, and Billy English, Paul's brother, on drums and percussion.
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