Mama's Hungry Eyes: A Tribute to Merle Haggard

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Mama's Hungry Eyes: A Tribute to Merle Haggard
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Studio album by Various Artists
Released October 11, 1994 (1994-10-11)
Genre Country
Length 50:17
Label Arista Nashville
Producer Various
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars[1]
Entertainment Weekly C+[2]

Mama's Hungry Eyes: A Tribute to Merle Haggard is a tribute album to American country music artist Merle Haggard. It was released in 1994 via Arista Nashville.[1] The album peaked at number 52 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.[1] Proceeds from the album go to Second Harvest Food Bank.[1]

Critical reception

An uncredited review from AllMusic gave the album three stars out of five, stating that "throughout the album, the listener is constantly reminded of country music's debt to Haggard's songwriting."[1] Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly gave it a C+, calling it "often mediocre."[2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Merle Haggard except "Today I Started Loving You Again" written by Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens. 

No. Title Performer(s) Length
1. "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down"   Brooks & Dunn 3:14
2. "I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am"   Clint Black 3:33
3. "Silver Wings"   Pam Tillis 4:22
4. "Everybody's Had the Blues"   Randy Travis 5:07
5. "The Farmer's Daughter"   Vince Gill 4:47
6. "Workin' Man Blues"   Jed Zeppelin (Lee Roy Parnell, Diamond Rio and Steve Wariner) 5:07
7. "The Running Kind"   Radney Foster 4:23
8. "Sing Me Back Home"   Alabama 2:43
9. "Trying Not to Love You"   Alan Jackson 3:49
10. "I Threw Away the Rose"   Lorrie Morgan 3:24
11. "Mama Tried"   John Anderson and Marty Stuart 2:53
12. "Today I Started Loving You Again"   Willie Nelson 3:17
13. "Mama's Hungry Eyes"   Emmylou Harris 3:38

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1994) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Country Albums 22
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 52

Singles

Year Single Artist Peak
positions
US Country
1994 "The Running Kind" Radney Foster 64
"Workin' Man Blues" Jed Zeppelin 48

References

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