1994 (Merle Haggard album)

the album by Alvin Lee Nineteen Ninety-Four (album) May 2025 1994 Studio Merle Haggard 1994 Merle Haggard.jpg March 22, 1994 1993–1994 Eleven-Eleven Sound Studios, Loud Recording Studios, Mesa Recording Studios, Nashville, TN Country 34:24 Curb James Stroud Blue Jungle 1990 1996 1996 1994 studio In My Next Life February 7, 1994 1994 is the forty-eighth studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in 1994. Background Although Haggard's profile remained high in 1994, having been the subject of two tribute albums (Mama's Hungry Eyes: A Tribute to Merle Haggard and Tulare Dust), 1994 was a commercial disappointment, peaking at number 60 on the Billboard country albums chart. It had been four years since Haggard's previous album Blue Jungle, and in his Haggard biography The Running Kind, David Cantwell writes that Haggard, "took to bitching in interviews that Curb was happy enough to use his name for bait, luring future stars like Tim McGraw to the label, but it wouldn't release his music." Cantwell David Merle Haggard: The Running Kind University of Texas Press 2013 978-0-292-71771-8 The album includes a remake of his 1977 hit "Ramblin' Fever." Reception Allmusic 3 5 Dan Cooper 1994 > Review album mw0000110868 yes Allmusic February 22, 2015 Dan Cooper of AllMusic calls 1994 Haggard's strongest album since Big City. Biographer David Cantwell observed in 2013, "When it finally showed up, 1994 improved considerably on Blue Jungle." Track listing "I Am an Island" (Max D. Barnes) – 3:34 "In My Next Life" (Barnes) – 3:48 "Way Back in the Mountains" (Merle Haggard, Barnes) – 3:09 "What's New in New York City" (Haggard) – 2:47 "Set My Chickens Free" (Haggard, Richard Smith) – 2:18In 1969, the words from Gilbert Shelton's strip called Set My Chickens Free, published in issue 1 of the Bijou Funnies comic, were set to music by The Hub City Movers as The Chicken Song (rereleased in 1983 as Set Your Chickens Free).https://www.discogs.com/artist/1480935-The-Hub-City-Movers The Hub City Movers 2021 August 26, 2021 Discogs https://www.madmusic.com/artist_details.aspx?ArtistID=2847 Gilbert Shelton & The Hub City Movers 2019 August 26, 2021 Captain Wayne’s Mad Music.com In his 1975 album Grasshopper (and 1976 single Cosmic Joke), David Carradine used the words in Chicken Song.https://www.discogs.com/DavidCarradine-Grasshopper/master/443344 David Carradine - Grasshopper 2021 August 27, 2021 Discogs "Chores" (Haggard, Barnes, Billy Davis, Theresa Lane) – 3:06 "Valentine" (Willie Nelson) – 3:09 "Solid as a Rock" (Haggard, Barnes) – 3:11 "Bye, Bye, Travelin' Blues" (Haggard, Dean Holloway) – 2:56 "Troubadour" (Haggard) – 2:28 "Ramblin' Fever" (Haggard) – 3:58 Personnel Merle Haggard – vocals, guitar Norm Hamlet – steel guitar Biff Adams – drums Don Markham – trumpet, saxophone Larry Byrom – guitar Glen Duncan – fiddle Sonny Garrish – dobro, steel guitar Owen Hale – drums Dann Huff – guitar Abe Manuel, Jr. – guitar Joe Manuel – guitar Hilton Reed – guitar Leland Sklar – bass Gary W. Smith – piano Joe Spivey – fiddle Curtis Wright – background vocals Curtis Young – background vocals Production notes: James Stroud – producer Hank Williams – mastering Julian King – engineer Steve Ledet – assistant engineer Rodney Good – assistant engineer Mark Hagen – assistant engineer Lynn Peterzell – engineer, mixing Doug Rich – production assistant Chart positions Chart (1994)PeakpositionBillboard Country albums60 Notes References Category:1994 albums Category:Merle Haggard albums Category:Curb Records albums Category:Albums produced by James Stroud