
09/15/2025
WKKS DEBUT IS TODAY
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Willie Nelson's new studio album Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle in all configurations on Friday, November 7.
The album will be available digitally, on CD and as a single LP black vinyl release.
Workin’ Man (his 155th album, according to Texas Monthly's interactive All Willie Nelson Albums Ranked list and 78th solo studio album) premieres Willie's new interpretations of 11 classic songs written by Merle Haggard, the latest in Nelson’s storied history of focusing entire albums on a single songwriter’s or artist’s work. In just the last decade, Willie has released albums focusing on songwriters Harlan Howard, Ray Price, George Gershwin and Rodney Crowell and released two volumes of songs associated with Frank Sinatra. Nelson and Haggard were longtime friends and collaborators who released three collaborative albums together: 1983’s Pancho and Lefty, 2007’s Last Of The Breed (alongside Ray Price) and 2015’s Django and Jimmie.
The first single from the album out today is Willie’s take on the classic “Workin’ Man Blues,” which was a #1 country hit for Haggard in 1969.
Willie's Workin' Man Blues debuts today at 1:50 and 4:50 on WKKS.