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Lyin', Cheatin', Woman Chasin', Honky Tonkin', Whiskey Drinkin' You (1983)

Where the lyrics of Lyin', Cheatin', Woman Chasin', Honky Tonkin', Whiskey Drinkin' You take you, and where it was really made.

Lynn's 36th studio album was the first of her Decca/MCA albums to miss a single top 40 country hit.

Key places

Recording at Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville (1983)

Recording site Nashville — The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, at Woodland Sound Studios, Music City Music Hall and Bradley's Barn. Mixing and mastering also took place at Woodland Sound Studios. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Lyin', Cheatin', Woman Chasin', Honky Tonkin', Whiskey Drinkin' You: 36th solo studio album by American country singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn
• Released May 30, 1983 by MCA Records
• Ten songs in total, five on each side of the LP
• Title track by Gene Dobbins and Pat McManus opens side A
• Second single Walking with My Memories written by Fred Koller and Mike Pace

Background

• Lynn's first album of her Decca/MCA career to fail to produce a single top 40 country hit
• Both singles reached only the lower end of the top 100 country singles chart

Recording

• Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Woodland Sound Studios, Music City Music Hall and Bradley's Barn
• Producers Ron Chancey and Owen Bradley
• Mixed at Woodland Sound Studios, Music City Music Hall and Music Mill Recording Studio
• Mastering done at Woodland Sound Studios
• Session players include Reggie Young, Charlie McCoy, Buddy Harman and David Briggs, with the Nashville String Machine on strings

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Tracklist

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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.

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Reception

At release

• Released May 30, 1983 by MCA Records
• This was Lynn's first album of her Decca/MCA career to fail to produce a single top 40 country hit
• Both singles reached only the lower end of the top 100 country singles chart
• The album's first single was its title track

Records

• Peaked at No. 60 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart
• Title track peaked at No. 53 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart
• Second single Walking with My Memories peaked at No. 59
• Album and single positions are listed in the Billboard (North America) chart tables

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Trivia

• Cover credits: art direction by George Osaki, design by Thomas Arnholt, cover photo by Slick Lawson
• Mastering engineer was Hank Williams
• Engineers were Les Ladd, Bill Vandervort and Joe Mills
• Janet Butler served as album coordinator
• Credits list Charlie McCoy on harmonica among the session players

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