Stranger Things Have Happened (Peter Tork album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

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."[1]

In December 2020, British label 7a Records reissued Stranger Things Have Happened on CD and vinyl with new artwork and nine bonus tracks.[2]

Credits adapted from 1994 release.

• Peter Tork – vocals, guitar, banjo, producer, liner notes
• James Lee Stanley – acoustic guitar, backing vocals, producer, engineering, programming
• Tommy Mars – keyboards
• Pat Holloway – bass
• Darren Elpant – drums
• Michael Nesmith – backing vocals ("Milkshake", "MGB-GT")
• Micky Dolenz – backing vocals ("Milkshake")
• Timothy B. Schmit – backing vocals ("Stranger Things Have Happened")
• Mel Vasquez – backing vocals ("Sea Change")
• Mackenzie Phillips – backing vocals ("Giant Step")
• Owen Elliott – backing vocals ("Giant Step")
• Anita Sherman – backing vocals ("Gettin' In", "Higher and Higher")
• Deborah Van Valkenburgh – backing vocals ("Tender Is")
• Marc McClure – lead guitar ("Get What You Pay For")
• Laurence Juber – electric guitar ("Milkshake")

Additional

• Nick Thorkelson – artwork
• Joseph L. Steiner, III – mastering