A late-career single that found the country legend leaning into bluesy territory.
- Released in April 1989, "5:01 Blues" was a single from Merle Haggard's album "Chill Factor."
- The single reached number 43 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
- The song was co-written by Haggard and the veteran country songwriter and producer Norro Wilson.
Merle Haggard was a Bakersfield-sound country singer-songwriter from Oildale, California. He rose to prominence in the late 1960s with a string of hits that often focused on the lives of working-class Americans. "5:01 Blues" arrived late in Haggard's career, after his commercial peak in the 1970s and early 1980s. It found him exploring bluesier territory, a genre he had long incorporated into his country music.
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