Merle Haggard to Receive Tribute at ACMs

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Merle Haggard will receive two tributes in April. Working Man's Poet: A Tribute to Merle Haggard is an album of his hits recorded by current country artists, such as Luke Bryan, Thompson Square and Randy Houser. The album will be available April 1st. 

Secondly, during the ACM Awards on April 6th, which happens to be Haggard's 77th birthday, he will receive the ACM's Crystal Milestone Award honoring his 50th anniversary in country music. 


Haggard topped the Billboard country singles chart thirty-eight times between 1967 and 1988. He won the ACM's first entertainer of the year award and was named top male vocalist a record-setting six times.

Working Man's Poet, on Broken Bow Records, will be available digitally through iTunes. Physical copies of the album, sold only at Walmart, will include Garth Brooks' version of Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down. The album also includes two songs recorded by Haggard's son, Ben, who plays guitar in his father's band.

Track Listing: Working Man's Poet: A Tribute to Merle Haggard:

1. Misery and Gin, Randy Houser
2. Footlights, Joe Nichols
3. Going Where the Lonely Go, Jason Aldean
4. Today I Started Loving You Again, Kristy Lee Cook
5. Carolyn, Toby Keith
6. Pancho and Lefty, Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley
7. Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down, Garth Brooks (Walmart edition only)
8. You Take Me for Granted, Thompson Square
9. Mama Tried, Ben Haggard
10. That's the Way Love Goes, Dustin Lynch
11. Make Up and Faded Blue Jeans, Jake Owen
12. I'm a Lonesome Fugitive, James Wesley
13. Workin' Man Blues, Parmalee
14. Are the Good Times Really Over, Jason Aldean
15. Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room, Thompson Square
16. I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink, Dustin Lynch
17. The Fightin' Side of Me, James Wesley
18. My Favorite Memory, Joe Nichols
19. Ramblin' Fever, Randy Houser
20. Sing Me Back Home, Ben Haggard

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