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"Mama Tried" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in July 1968 as the first single and title track from the album Mama Tried. The song became one of the cornerstone songs of his career.
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Mama Tried continued Haggard's artistic and commercial hot streak, reaching number 4 on Billboard's country albums chart. In the original Rolling Stone review, Andy Wickham wrote, "His songs romanticize the hardships and tragedies of America's transient proletarian and his success is resultant of his inherent ability to relate to his audience a commonplace experience with precisely the right ...
It contains lyrical references to "Mainstreet" by Bob Seger, "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen, and "Mama Tried" by Merle Haggard. [2] It is a piano ballad in the key of E major with a slow tempo of 60 beats per minute in 4/4 time signature. The song features a primary chord pattern of A2-B7-C ♯ m three times, followed by A-Bsus-E-A/E-E. [3]
The title alludes to Haggard's 1968 song "Mama Tried", a song which became a cornerstone of his career. Haggard had recorded a live gospel album in 1971 called The Land of Many Churches , but this set is dedicated to his mother Flossie, who was seventy-nine years old when she posed with Haggard on the cover of the LP.
The Vanguard reissue contains two outtakes from the One Day at a Time sessions: "Sing Me Back Home" and "Mama Tried", both duets with Jeffrey Shurtleff, and both Merle Haggard covers. (The two cuts had first appeared on Baez' 1993 boxed set Rare, Live & Classic).
Mama Tried (Merle Haggard) 2:09; You Remind Me of the Blues 2:25; Please Be with Me (Scott Boyer) 3:24; Sad Old Train (Donna Hughes) 2:54; Tomorrow Is a Long Time 3:58; Too Bad You're No Good (Paul Craft, Cadillac Holmes) 2:47
A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by ...