Merle Haggard and George Jones

• A Taste of Yesterday's Wine [Epic, 1982] B-

See Also:

• Merle Haggard and the Strangers
• Merle Haggard
• Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson
• George Jones
• George Jones and Merle Haggard
• George Jones & the Jones Boys
• George Jones & Melba Montgomery
• George Jones & Tammy Wynette
• Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
• Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard/Ray Price
• merge all

Consumer Guide Reviews:

A Taste of Yesterday's Wine [Epic, 1982]
What might have been a historic get-together overplays both the good-old-boy camaraderie and the cry-in-your-beer sentimentality of country's male-bonding mode. Willie Nelson's keynote tune becomes completely bathetic, and that the nostalgia and mutual self-congratulation it presages are even bearable is one more proof of Jones's genius. B-