| Stranger Things Have Happened | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Peter Tork |
| Cover: | Stranger Things Have Happened Peter Tork.JPG |
| Released: | 1994 October 10, 2020 (reissue) |
| Recorded: | January 1993; August 1994 |
| Studio: | Beachwood Recording Studio, Woodland Hills, California |
| Length: | 35:23 (original release) 62:44 (2020 reissue) |
| Label: | Beachwood Recordings (original release) 7a Records (2020 reissue) |
| Chronology: | Peter Tork |
| Next Title: | Two Man Band |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
Stranger Things Have Happened is a 1994 album by former Monkees member Peter Tork. Although he had been performing since the 1960s, this was his first and only solo release.
The album includes several original compositions, and covered a range of styles from folk ("Giant Step") to hard rock ("Miracle") to pop ("MGB-GT").
Bruce Eder of AllMusic wrote "No one's going to believe it, but this is a good album, from Peter Tork no less. Most of the songs are sung with passion and the voice is much better than it was on, say, 'Shades of Gray' 28 years earlier. What's more, Tork reveals himself as a solid rocker, starting from a folk idiom but working with lots of wattage on the instruments and no trace of wimpy singer/songwriter affectation in the playing." He singles out the track, "'Higher and Higher', a folk/gospel song on which Tork mostly plays acoustic banjo, and which is so beguiling that one wishes he'd do an entire album in that idiom, style, and sound."
In December 2020, British label 7a Records reissued Stranger Things Have Happened on CD and vinyl with new artwork and nine bonus tracks.[1]
Tracks 15–17 not included on 2020 vinyl reissue.
Credits adapted from 1994 release.