Django and Jimmie

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Django and Jimmie
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 2, 2015
Genre Country, outlaw country
Length46:44
Label Legacy Recordings
Producer Buddy Cannon
Willie Nelson chronology
December Day: Willie's Stash, Vol. 1
(2014)
Django and Jimmie
(2015)
Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin
(2016)
Merle Haggard chronology
Working in Tennessee
(2011)
Django and Jimmie
(2015)
Timeless
(2015)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Django and Jimmie"Jimmy Melton, Jeff Prince2:53
2."It's All Going to Pot" (featuring Jamey Johnson)Buddy Cannon, Jamey Johnson, Larry Shell2:56
3."Unfair Weather Friend"Marla Cannon-Goodman, Ward Davis4:14
4."Missing Ol' Johnny Cash" (featuring Bobby Bare) Merle Haggard 3:26
5."Live This Long" Shawn Camp, Marv Green 3:35
6."Alice in Hulaland"Cannon, Willie Nelson 3:01
7."Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" Bob Dylan 4:10
8."Family Bible"Nelson3:36
9."It's Only Money"Nelson, Cannon3:56
10."Swinging Doors"Haggard2:51
11."Where Dreams Come to Die"Nelson, Cannon3:18
12."Somewhere Between"Haggard3:24
13."Driving the Herd"Nelson, Cannon2:49
14."The Only Man Wilder Than Me"Haggard2:35

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