1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #102. Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) (1967)

Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) (1967)

Label – Decca
Producer – Owen Bradley
Art Direction – Uncredited
Nationality –USA
Running Time – 30:14

Track Listing (standout tracks listed in bold)

1 Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)
2 I Really Don't Want to Know
3 Tommorow Never Comes
4 There Goes My Everything
5 The Shoe Goes on the Other Foot Tonight
6 Saint to Sinner
7 The Devil Gets His Dues
8 I Can't Keep Away from You
9 I'm Living in Two Worlds
10 Get What 'Cha Got and Go
11 Making Plans
12 I Got Caught

Admittedly I am not a huge country music fan – and I like old country music a lot less than new country music being released these days. So it was really pretty hard to get though this album. I totally understand that Loretta Lynn is considered one of the best country & western artists, but it’s just not my cup of tea. This was her seventh studio record and it does contain two of her defining songs – the title track (which reached #1 – her first) and the cynical "I Got Caught". I do like that fact that while there are cover songs on here – notably Ernest Tubb’s "The Shoe Goes on the Other Foot Tonight" – that Loretta Lynn for the most part penned most of her own songs. A true all around artist. There are some nice lead guitar/pedal steel interchanges that run through this album that made my ears perk up, but that’s about it.
The album became the first album by a female Country singer to be certified "Gold" by the RIAA, meaning the album has sold 500,000 copies or more. The album peaked at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, her second album to do so. It also peaked at #80 on the Billboard 200. It is however not recommended.

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You can purchase the LP record here.

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