Mama Tried (album)

Mama Tried
Studio album by
Merle Haggard and The Strangers
ReleasedOctober 3, 1968
RecordedFebruary, March, June 1968
StudioCapitol (Hollywood)
Genre
Length31:57
LabelCapitol
ProducerKen Nelson
Merle Haggard and The Strangers chronology
The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde
(1968) 		Mama Tried
(1968) 		Pride in What I Am
(1969)
Singles from Mama Tried
  1. "Mama Tried"
    Released: July 1968

Mama Tried is the seventh studio album by American country music singer and songwriter Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released on Capitol Records in 1968. It reached number 4 on Billboard's country albums chart. The title song was one of Haggard's biggest hit singles and won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999.

  1. ^ Pitchfork Staff (August 22, 2017). "The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 15, 2023. By 1968, Merle Haggard had made a comfortable niche singing honky-tonk-influenced songs about tough stuff...