Track listing

1. "Footlights" (Haggard) – 3:39
2. "The Race Is On" (Don Rollings) – 2:11
3. "The Way I Am" (Sonny Throckmorton) – 3:05
4. "She Thinks I Still Care" (Dickey Lee) – 2:38
5. "All My Friends Are Strangers" (Liz Anderson
   Liz Anderson
   Liz Anderson was anAmerican country music singer/songwriter who was one of a wave of a new generation of female vocalists in the genre during the 1960's to write and record her own songs on a regular basis. Writing in The New York Times Bill Friskics-Warren noted, "Like her contemporary Loretta...
   
   ) – 2:36
6. "Things Have Gone to Pieces" (Leon Payne
   Leon Payne
   Leon Payne , "the Blind Balladeer", was a country music singer and songwriter.-Life:Leon Roger Payne was born in Alba, Texas on June 15, 1917. He was blind in one eye at birth, and lost the sight of the other eye in early childhood. He attended the Texas School for the Blind from 1924 to 1935,...
   
   ) – 3:01
7. "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" (Haggard) – 4:33
8. "Born with the Blues" (Haggard) – 4:46
9. "Sick, Sober and Sorry" (Tex Atchison, Eddie Hazelwood) – 3:05
10. "I Always Get Lucky with You
    I Always Get Lucky with You
    "I Always Get Lucky With You" is a 1983 single written by Merle Haggard, Freddy Powers, Gary Church, and Tex Whitson and recorded by George Jones. "I Always Get Lucky with You" would be George Jones' ninth number one on the country chart as a solo artist . The single stayed at number one for one...
    
    " (Gary Church, Freddy Powers, Tex Whitson) – 3:21
11. "Sing Me Back Home" (Haggard, Buck Owens
    Buck Owens
    Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...
    
    ) – 2:58
12. "The Window Up Above" (George Jones) – 2:38
13. "You Take Me for Granted
    You Take Me for Granted
    "You Take Me for Granted" is a track from Merle Haggard's 1982 album, "Going Where the Lonely Go". "You Take Me For Granted" was written by Leona Williams, Merle Haggard's wife and was his twenty-ninth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total...
    
    " (Leona Williams
    Leona Williams
    Leona Belle Helton is an American country music singer known professionally as Leona Williams. Active since 1958, Williams has been a backing musician for Loretta Lynn and Merle Haggard, to whom she was married between 1978 and 1983...
    
    ) – 2:48
14. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Sidney Keith, Edward Kennedy) – 3:00

Chart performance

Personnel

• Eddie Bayers
  Eddie Bayers
  Eddie Bayers is an American session drummer who has played on 150 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for eight straight years, and has three times won the Nashville Music Awards 'Drummer of the Year'...
  
   – Drums
• Lou Bradley – Producer, Engineer
• Jason Campbell – Production Coordination
• Michael Campbell – Project Manager
• Doug Colosio – Piano
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins – Piano
• Nathan Dickinson – Assistant Engineer
• Stuart Duncan
  Stuart Duncan
  Stuart Duncan is a bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo. Born in Quantico, Virginia and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band, he has been a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band since 1985, and is a much-in-demand session musician...
  
   – Fiddle, Mandolin
• Larry Frankin – Fiddle
• Paul Franklin
  Paul Franklin (musician)
  Paul Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville,...
  
   – Steel Guitar
• David Gulliver – Assistant Engineer
• Merle Haggard – Guitar, Producer
• Norm Hamlet
  Norm Hamlet
  Norm Hamlet is an American steel guitarist best known as a member of Merle Haggard's Stranger's group. In 2005 Hamlet had quadruple heart bypass surgery and recovered well at his home in Bakersfield, California. In April 2006 while on tour with Merle Haggard Hamlet's Dobro was stolen and a reward...
  
   – Pedal Steel
• Nancy Jones – Photography
• Jerry Jordan – Photography
• Scott Joss – Guitar
• John Kelton – Engineer, Mixing
• Matt Lumpkin – Photography
• Liana Manis – Background vocals
• Brent Mason
  Brent Mason
  Brent Mason is an American session guitarist and occasional songwriter. He is known primarily for his work in the field of country music. In addition to releasing two instrumental studio albums, he holds several credits as a songwriter...
  
   – Acoustic & Electric Guitar
• Susan Nadler – Executive Producer
• Matt Rovey – Engineer, Assistant Engineer
• John Wesley Ryles
  John Wesley Ryles
  John Wesley Ryles is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1968 with the single "Kay", a Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, and the title track to his debut album for Columbia Records.Ryles later recorded one album, Reconsider Me, for the Plantation label,...
  
   – Background vocals
• Evelyn Shriver – Executive Producer
• Marty Slayton – Background vocals
• Keith Stegall
  Keith Stegall
  Robert Keith Stegall is an American country music recording artist and record producer. Active since 1980, Stegall has recorded two-major label studio albums: 1985's Keith Stegall and 1996's Passages...
  
   – Producer
• Norman Stevens – Guitar
• Todd Tilwell – Assistant Engineer
• Rhonda Vincent
  Rhonda Vincent
  Rhonda Lea Vincent is a bluegrass singer, songwriter, mandolin player, guitarist, and fiddle player.Her musical career started as a child in her family's band, The Sally Mountain Show, and has spanned almost four decades...
  
   – Background vocals
• Bruce Watkins – Acoustic Guitar
• Hank Williams – Mastering
• Kevin Williams – Bass
• Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf is one of the premier Nashville session bassists. He was born in Dayton, Ohio but grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and has concentrated on the bass guitar since he was thirteen. He majored in music at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Inevitably his talents forced him to abandon the...
  
  – Bass