Maps of Music

Just a Woman (1985)

Where the lyrics of Just a Woman take you, and where it was really made.

Loretta Lynn's 37th solo studio album reached only No. 63 on Billboard's country album chart, while its lead single climbed to No. 19.

Key places

Recorded at Emerald Studios, Nashville (1985)

Recording site Nashville — The album was recorded at Emerald Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. The marker uses the city-centre coordinate, so it shows Nashville rather than the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: See the map for directions.

Album story

Overview

• Just a Woman: 37th solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn
• Released July 8, 1985 by MCA Records
• Track listing: ten songs, five on side A and five on side B
• Side A opens with 'Stop the Clock'; side B closes with 'One Man Band'
• Songs include 'Heart Don't Do This to Me', 'Wouldn't It Be Great', 'When I'm in Love All Alone', 'I Can't Say It on the Radio', 'I'll Think of Something', 'Adam's Rib' and 'Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me'

Background

• Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter
• This album is her thirty-seventh solo studio album
• Released by MCA Records
• Loretta Lynn wrote 'Wouldn't It Be Great' and 'Adam's Rib'

Recording

• Recorded at Emerald Studios in Nashville, Tennessee
• Produced by Jimmy Bowen (for Lynwood Productions) and Loretta Lynn
• Recording engineer Ron Treat; overdub engineers Ron Treat, Bob Bullock and Chuck Ainlay
• Mixed at Ground Star Laboratory; mixing engineer Steve Tillisch

Cover

• Original album art direction by Simon Levy
• Original album cover photography by Peter Brill Nash

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Early life

• Born Loretta Webb on April 14, 1932, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, the oldest daughter in a coal miner's family.
• Married Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn in 1948 at age 15; the marriage lasted almost 50 years until his death in 1996.
• Began singing in local clubs in the late 1950s and formed her own band, the Trailblazers.

Career

• Signed with Zero Records in 1960; her first release was "Whispering Sea" and "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl".
• Joined Decca Records through the Wilburn Brothers; joined the Grand Ole Opry on September 25, 1962.
• Scored a string of hits from the 1960s, including "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" and "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin'".
• Wrote songs on women's issues such as birth control ("The Pill") and double standards ("Rated 'X'"), many inspired by her own marriage.
• Recorded five No. 1 duets with Conway Twitty between 1971 and 1975.
• Her 1976 autobiography Coal Miner's Daughter became a bestseller and inspired the 1980 Oscar-winning film starring Sissy Spacek.
• Named Artist of the Decade for the 1970s by the Academy of Country Music, the only woman to win this honor.
• Released Van Lear Rose (2004), produced by Jack White, which won the Grammy for Best Country Album.
• Had a stroke in 2017 and broke her hip in 2018, which ended her touring after 57 years.
• Died on October 4, 2022, at age 90, at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Released July 8, 1985 by MCA Records
• The album is Loretta Lynn's thirty-seventh solo studio album
• The album produced three singles that each charted on Billboard's country charts
• The first single was 'Heart Don't Do This to Me', written by Kin Vassy and Justin Wilde
• The second single was 'Wouldn't It Be Great', written by Loretta Lynn
• The third single was 'Just a Woman', which shares its title with the album

Records

• The album peaked at No. 63 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart
• 'Heart Don't Do This to Me' peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, the highest of the three singles
• 'Wouldn't It Be Great' peaked at No. 72
• 'Just a Woman' peaked at No. 82
• Album and singles chart positions are recorded on the Billboard charts

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The album's first single, 'Heart Don't Do This to Me', was its highest-charting single, reaching No. 19 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.
• The album was produced by Jimmy Bowen, for Lynwood Productions, and by Loretta Lynn.
• The third single, 'Just a Weekly' title track 'Just a Woman', reached No. 82.
• Overdub engineers were Ron Treat, Bob Bullock and Chuck Ainlay.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

Maps of Ages ↗ (mapsofages.com)

Privacy · Contact