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If I Could Only Fly
Studio album by Merle Haggard
Released October 10, 2000
Genre Country
Length 35:45
Label ANTI-/Epitaph
Merle Haggard chronology
1996
(1996)
If I Could Only Fly
(2000)
Roots, Volume 1
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars link
Robert Christgau (A-) link
Pitchfork Media (7.6 of 10) link

If I Could Only Fly is an album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in 2000. It reached Number 26 on the Billboard Country album chart.[1]

Contents

Track listing [edit]

All songs by Merle Haggard unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Wishing All These Old Things Were New" – 3:20
  2. "Honky Tonky Mama" (Haggard, Traditional) – 3:07
  3. "Turn to Me" – 3:10
  4. "If I Could Only Fly" (Blaze Foley) – 4:59
  5. "Crazy Moon" (Haggard, Max Barnes) – 2:07
  6. "Bareback" – 2:12
  7. "(Think About A) Lullaby" (Haggard, Theresa Lane Haggard) – 2:24
  8. "I'm Still Your Daddy" – 2:54
  9. "Proud to Be Your Old Man" (Haggard, Abe Manuel, Jr.) – 2:26
  10. "Leavin's Getting Harder" – 2:10
  11. "Thanks to Uncle John" – 2:43
  12. "Listening (To the Wind)" – 4:10

Personnel [edit]

  • Merle Haggard – vocals, guitar
  • Biff Adams – drums
  • Eddie Curtis – bass
  • Floyd Domino – piano
  • Norm Hamlet – steel guitar
  • Abe Manuel, Jr. – guitar, fiddle, mandolin, percussion, piano, accordion, harp, harmony vocals
  • Joe Manuel – guitar
  • Randy Mason – guitar
  • Oleg Schramm – piano
  • Redd Volkaert – guitar
  • Don Markham – saxophone, harmony vocals

Production notes:

  • Lou Bradley – engineer, mixing
  • Jesse Fischer – art direction, design
  • Johnny Whiteside – liner notes

Chart performance [edit]

Chart (2000) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 26
U.S. Billboard Independent Albums 10

References [edit]

  1. ^ Allmusic entry for If I Only Could Fly. Retrieved December 2009.
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