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It's All in the Game (Merle Haggard album)
Contents
Recording and composition
Reception
Track listing
Personnel
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References

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It's All in the Game (Merle Haggard album)
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1984 studio album by Merle Haggard
It's All in the Game

Studio album by
Merle Haggard
Released
1984
( 1984)
Recorded
October 1983/Early 1984
Genre
Country
Length
29:53
Label
Epic
Producer
Merle Haggard, Ray Baker
Merle Haggard chronology
The Epic Collection (Recorded Live)
(1983)
It's All in the Game
(1984)
Kern River
(1985)
It's All in the Game is the 39th studio album by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers, released in 1984 by Epic Records. The album peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Contents
1 Recording and composition
2 Reception
3 Track listing
4 Personnel
5 Charts
5.1 Weekly charts
5.2 Year-end charts
6 References
Recording and composition
Haggard's only album from 1984 is dominated with songs co-written with Freddy Powers. The country singer's career was booming during this period like it hadn't since the early seventies, and It's All in the Game continued this roll, producing three #1 hits. The first of these, " Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room ," recalls the shuffling rhythm of his 1981 hit " Big City " and finds the narrator attempting to playfully reignite the passion of his marriage. The other two chart toppers, " A Place to Fall Apart " (co-written with Willie Nelson and featuring Janie Fricke on background vocals) and the love song " Natural High ," have a softer vocal approach more indicative of the album's overall sound. " Little Hotel Room" and "I Never Go Home Anymore" contain Haggard's oft-used themes of loss, loneliness and estrangement. The LP also includes his take on the recent Willie Nelson / Julio Iglesias smash " To All the Girls I've Loved Before " and "You Really Lose Your Mind," his tribute to Ernest Tubb, who died in September 1984. Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
Allmusic

AllMusic: " In another artist's hands, It's All In the Game might have been a mere crying-in-the-beer soundtrack.