Merle Haggard - Old Loves Never Die (with Leona Williams)

This superb release is an album in two halves, the first ten tracks feature both Leona Williams and Merle Haggard performing duets and the remaining eighteen are just Leona, taken both from her illustrious back catalogue and also some newer material.

Bear Family Records have done their usual excellent production job with Old Loves Never Die, showcasing the broad talents of two of country music’s most talented artistes and also giving the listener plenty of information within the sleeve notes.

Having been married during the period 1978 to 1984 had brought these two great song writers and performers together, indeed during that period Leona was to write two superb songs that were to become massive hits for Merle Haggard, Someday When Things Are Good and You Take Me For Granted, both of which are included on this release.

Old Loves Never Die is an album for country music fans young and old, quite simply a master class in how to compose and deliver traditional country music. A mammoth twenty-eight tracks of pure pleasure. ~ James Soars

• Heart To Heart Talk
• Let’s Pretend We’re Not Married Tonight
• You Can’t Break The Chains Of Love
• Waltz Across Texas
• We’re Strangers Again
• Waitin’ For The Good Life To Come
• Don’t Ever Let Your Lover Sleep Alone
• It’s Cold In California
• I’ll Never Be Free
• Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down
• We Agree That We Must Be In Love
• Someday When Things Are Good
• More I See Of Those Cowboys
• Midnight Love
• You Sure Make Cheatin’ Seem Easy
• Telephone Line
• You Take Me For Granted
• I Dropped Your Name
• Melted Down Memories
• My First Night Away From Home
• Divorce On The Rocks
• Old Loves Never Die
• Waitin’ For My Turn
• Too Long A Time To Say Goodbye
• Love And Honor
• Tiny White Circle
• Thinking Of Me
• Tommy Lasorda