Chicago Wind

{{About|the Merle Haggard album|the former American football team|Chicago Winds}}

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| name = Chicago Wind

| type = Studio

| artist = Merle Haggard

| cover = Chicago_Wind_Haggard.jpg

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| released = October 25, 2005

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| genre = Country

| length = 40:46

| label = Capitol Records Nashville

| producer = Mike Post
Jimmy Bowen

| prev_title = Unforgettable

| prev_year = 2004

| next_title = Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again

| next_year = 2006

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Chicago Wind is the fifty-eighth studio album by American country singer and songwriter Merle Haggard, released in 2005. It peaked at number 54 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. A video was made for the track "America First".

Critical reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 =Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} {{cite web |first=Thom |last= Jurek |title= Chicago Wind > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= mw0000347706 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |access-date=March 17, 2015}}

| rev2 =Robert Christgau

| rev2Score = (***) {{cite web |first=Robert |last= Christgau |title= Chicago Wind > Review |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Merle+Haggard |publisher=Robert Christgau |access-date=February 22, 2015}}

| rev3 = Freight Train Boogie

| rev3Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}} [http://www.freighttrainboogie.com/Archives/Archive-H.htm#ChicagoWind Freight Train Boogie review]

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic praised the album, writing "Chicago Wind is not the rough and rowdy honky tonk album some fans have been hankering for, but it is a poetic, thoughtful and empathic one that once more displays why Merle Haggard is the living king of country music."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Merle Haggard; except where indicated

  1. "Chicago Wind" – 4:08
  2. "Where's All the Freedom" – 3:22
  3. "White Man Singin' the Blues" – 3:47
  4. "Leavin's Not the Only Way to Go" (Roger Miller) – 3:38
  5. "What I've Been Meaning to Say" – 2:36
  6. "Mexico" – 3:11
  7. "Honky Tonk Man" (Dewayne Blackwell) – 3:04
  8. "America First" – 2:43
  9. "It Always Will Be" (Willie Nelson) – 4:01
  10. "I Still Can't Say Goodbye" (Robert Blinn, James Moore) – 3:38
  11. "Some of Us Fly" (with Toby Keith) – 6:38

Personnel

Chart performance

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! Chart (2005)

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U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums

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References