Mama's Hungry Eyes: A Tribute to Merle Haggard

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| name = Mama's Hungry Eyes: A Tribute to Merle Haggard

| type = tribute

| artist = Various Artists

| cover = MamasHungryEyes.jpg

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| released = {{start date|1994|10|11}}

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| genre = Country

| length = 50:17

| label = Arista Nashville

| producer = {{hlist|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}}

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{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|title=Mama's Hungry Eyes: Tribute to Merle Haggard – Various Artists|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000113721|pure_url=yes}}|work=AllMusic|accessdate=April 10, 2016}}

| rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev2Score = C+{{cite news|last1=Nash|first1=Alanna|authorlink1=Alanna Nash|title=Album Reviews: 'Mama's Hungry Eyes: A Tribute to Merle Haggard' and 'Tulare Dust: A Songwriters' Tribute to Merle Haggard'|url=http://www.ew.com/article/1994/11/11/album-reviews-mamas-hungry-eyes-tribute-merle-haggard-and-tulare-dust-songwriters|accessdate=April 10, 2016|work=Entertainment Weekly|date=November 11, 1994}}

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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. The album peaked at number 52 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Proceeds from the album go to Second Harvest Food Bank.

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." Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly gave it a C+, calling it "often mediocre."

Track listing

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| all_writing = Merle Haggard except "Today I Started Loving You Again" written by Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens

| extra_column = Performer(s)

| title1 = Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down

| extra1 = Brooks & Dunn

| length1 = 3:14

| title2 = I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am

| extra2 = Clint Black

| length2 = 3:33

| title3 = Silver Wings

| extra3 = Pam Tillis

| length3 = 4:22

| title4 = Everybody's Had the Blues

| extra4 = Randy Travis

| length4 = 5:07

| title5 = The Farmer's Daughter

| extra5 = Vince Gill

| length5 = 4:47

| title6 = Workin' Man Blues

| extra6 = Jed Zeppelin {{small|(Lee Roy Parnell, Diamond Rio and Steve Wariner)}}

| length6 = 5:07

| title7 = The Running Kind

| extra7 = Radney Foster

| length7 = 4:23

| title8 = Sing Me Back Home

| extra8 = Alabama

| length8 = 2:43

| title9 = Trying Not to Love You

| extra9 = Alan Jackson

| length9 = 3:49

| title10 = I Threw Away the Rose

| extra10 = Lorrie Morgan

| length10 = 3:24

| title11 = Mama Tried

| extra11 = John Anderson and Marty Stuart

| length11 = 2:53

| title12 = Today I Started Loving You Again

| extra12 = Willie Nelson

| length12 = 3:17

| title13 = Mama's Hungry Eyes

| extra13 = Emmylou Harris

| length13 = 3:38

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Chart performance

=Album=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Chart (1994)

! Peak
position

Canadian RPM Country Albums

| align="center"| 22

U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums

| align="center"| 52

=Singles=

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rowspan="2"\| Year ! rowspan="2"\| Single ! rowspan="2"\| Artist ! Peak positions
style="font-size:smaller;" ! US Country
rowspan="2"\| 1994 \| align="left"\| "The Running Kind" \| Radney Foster \| 64
align="left"\| "Workin' Man Blues" \| Jed Zeppelin \| 48

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rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2"| Single

! rowspan="2"| Artist

! Peak
positions

style="font-size:smaller;"

! US Country

rowspan="2"| 1994

| align="left"| "The Running Kind"

| Radney Foster

| 64

align="left"| "Workin' Man Blues"