Merle Haggard - 5:01 Blues (1989) Vinyl LP •PLAY-GRADED• A Better Love Next Time

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Still in ORIGINAL SHRINK-WRAP (opened). Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover has a few creases and small surface impressions (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (generic white). Spine is easy-to-read with mild-wear. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. Broken Friend
2. Losin' In Las Vegas
3. 5:01 Blues
4. Someday We'll Know
5. Wouldn't That Be Something
6. Sea Of Heartbreak
7. A Better Love Next Time
8. If You Want To Be My Woman
9. A Thousand Lies Ago
10. Somewhere Down The Line

About The Record:

5:01 Blues, by Merle Haggard with backing by The Strangers, was his last studio album on the Epic label. It peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard country albums chart. It was co-produced by Mark Yeary, keyboardist of The Strangers. Although Haggard's tenure with Epic had been a success in its first three years, producing twelve top-ten hits (with nine of them going to No. 1), his relationship with the label deteriorated in the latter part of the 1980s. 5:01 Blues was to be his last studio album with Epic. The single, A Better Love Next Time, became Haggard's last top 5 solo single, while two other singles, If You Want to Be My Woman and the title track, failed to crack the top 20 on the country charts. A final single, the opener Broken Friend did not chart. Someday We'll Know was co-written by Haggard and Teresa Lane, who later become Haggard's fifth wife.