Pancho & Lefty is a
honky tonk album by
outlaw country musicians
Merle Haggard and
Willie Nelson, released in
1983 (see
1983 in music). A blockbuster album,
Pancho & Lefty dominated country music for the year and helped establish both artists as two of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed of the genre. Nelson and Haggard were two of
Nashville's biggest artists of the time, the former at his creative peak and the latter having just released a successful comeback (
Big City), two years previously.
Track listing
- "Pancho and Lefty" (written by Townes van Zandt)
- "It's My Lazy Day"
- "My Mary"
- "Half a Man"
- "Reasons to Quit"
- "No Reason to Quit"
- "Still Water Runs the Deepest"
- "My Life's Been a Pleasure"
- "All the Soft Places to Fall"
- "Opportunity to Cry"
Chart positions
Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album
1983 The Billboard 200 No. 107
1983 Country Albums No. 1
1983 Country Albums No. 1
1983 Pop Albums No. 37
1983 Pop Albums No. 37
1984 The Billboard 200 No. 139
1984 Top Country Albums No. 12
Billboard Music Charts (North America) - singles
1983 Pancho and Lefty Adult Contemporary No. 21
1983 Pancho and Lefty Adult Contemporary No. 21
1983 Pancho and Lefty Country Singles No. 1
1983 Reasons to Quit Country Singles No. 6
1983 Pancho and Lefty Country Singles No. 1
1983 Reasons to Quit Country Singles No. 6