SIKESTON -- The proceeds from an all-star album saluting Merle Haggard will benefit the second Harvest Food Bank Network, which includes the Bootheel Food Bank in Sikeston.
The album, titled "Mama's Hungry Eyes," was released Tuesday. It includes favorite Merle Haggard tunes sung and played by Alabama, John Anderson and Marty Stuart, Clint Black, Brooks & Dunn, Diamond Rio, Steve Wariner and Lee Roy Parnell, Radney Foster, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Alan Jackson, Lorrie Morgan, Willie Nelson, Pam Tillis and Randy Travis.
A concert by Harold Condray and the Caananland Gospel Singers was presented Saturday at the Kingsway Mall in Sikeston to promote the album's release.
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