Name an artist that had a great debut album and a great final album

Merle Haggard

I am going to add Townes Van Zandt to this list with For The sake of the song as his debut album and No Deeper Blue as his closing. I know there were a couple of live and compilation albums before his death but NDB was his last studio offering released before his death in 1997 and although a bit rough at times is a great album in my mind, maybe I was just a fan and more so today than yesterday. Enjoy the music

While I am at it, have to mention Guy Clark, certainly would not want to offend Steve Earle. Enjoy the music