Album · Compilation

Contemporary Country: The Early ’80s, Pure Gold

Released 199222 tracks · 73:39EnglishTime–Life Music, MCA Special Products

Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1	I Ain’t Living Long Like This	Waylon Jennings	3:38
2	Heartbroke	Ricky Skaggs, George Grantham	3:18
3	Fourteen Carat Mind	Gene Watson	2:41
4	I Always Get Lucky With You	George Jones	3:20
5	All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)	Hank Williams, Jr.	3:59
6	Can’t Even Get the Blues	Reba McEntire	2:28
7	Night Games	Charley Pride	2:44
8	My Heart	Ronnie Milsap	2:42
9	Pancho and Lefty	Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Bobby Wood, Johnny Christopher	4:49
10	The Closer You Get	Alabama	3:37
11	I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool	Barbara Mandrell with George Jones	3:39
12	Swingin’	Donna Kay Anderson, Deanna Anderson Wall	3:04
13	I’d Love to Lay You Down	Conway Twitty	3:20
14	Elvira	The Oak Ridge Boys	2:40
15	Somebody’s Knockin’	Terri Gibbs	2:56
16	Good Ole Boys Like Me	Don Williams	4:13
17	Amarillo by Morning	George Strait	2:54
18	My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys	Willie Nelson	3:07
19	I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home	David Frizzell	3:58
20	Thirty-Nine and Holding	Jerry Lee Lewis, The Lea Jane Singers	2:58
21	Blue Moon With Heartache	Maxayne Lewis, Rosemary Butler	4:29
22	My Favorite Memory	Merle Haggard	3:05

Source: MusicBrainz release group 3077a8bf-1532-354c-bee6-7eaa6115c9d4 (CC0). Cover: Cover Art Archive.