Mama's Hungry Eyes: A Tribute to Merle Haggard

Mama's Hungry Eyes: A Tribute to Merle Haggard
Studio album by Various Artists
Released	October 11, 1994 (1994-10-11)
Genre	Country
Length	50:17
Label	Arista Nashville
Producer	Brian Ahern Alabama Clint Black Bruce Bouton Tony Brown Don Cook Steve Fishell Scott Hendricks Richard Landis Kyle Lehning Monty Powell Keith Stegall James Stroud Pam Tillis

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[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 tracks are written 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

1. "Mama's Hungry Eyes: Tribute to Merle Haggard – Various Artists". AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
2. Nash, Alanna (November 11, 1994). "Album Reviews: 'Mama's Hungry Eyes: A Tribute to Merle Haggard' and 'Tulare Dust: A Songwriters' Tribute to Merle Haggard'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved April 10, 2016.