****** - Verified Buyer
4.5
This is one of Haggard's best albums. It plays as a honky-tonk record but listening closer it is much more. There is deep melancholy and resignation to life's troubles in the lyrics. As well as the realization that drinking and the other favored recreations in barrooms and honky tonks are only dreams, which numb the pain temporarily. This is the 1st in Haggard's string of excellent early 80s albums - Big City, Going Where the Lonely Go, & That's the Way Love Goes. After this, his quality dropped significantly until 2000's If I Could Only Fly.From what I can tell, this album is flying under the radar. Anyway, it's the last of Haggard's quality honky tonk albums. The early 80s and 2000s albums are in a different vein - more laid back,introspective, and retrospective.
