Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson

Outlaw country musicians Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson collaborated on the album Pancho & Lefty in 1983.The albumdominated country music for the year and helped establish both artists as two of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed of the genre. Nelson and Haggard were two of Nashville's biggest artists of the time, the former at his creative peak and the latter having just released a successful comeback (Big City) two years previously.