Honky Tonk Night Time Man - Merle Haggard - MP3 instrumental karaoke

"Honky Tonk Night Time Man" is a song by country music legend Merle Haggard, included in his 1974 seventeenth studio album, Merle Haggard Presents His 30th Album. Unlike his previous LP, If We Make It Through December, which consisted mainly of outside contributions, the album found the country artist regaining creative control over his repertoire and writing most of the songs in the tracklist. The album was recorded with his backing band The Strangers and was hailed as a proper return to form, yielding two Number 1 singles—"Things Aren't Funny Anymore" and "Old Man from the Mountain"—and becoming Merle Haggard's seventh chart-topping album on the US country charts. It also contained its fair share of deep cuts, including the upbeat "Honky Tonk Night Time Man." A rollicking country blues number about a man with a taste for nightlife, the song was later famously covered by Lynyrd Skynyrd on their 1977 fifth studio album, Street Survivors.