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Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) (album)

Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn-Don't Come Home a Drinkin'.jpg
Studio album by Loretta Lynn
Released February 13, 1967
Recorded Nov. 16, 1965—Nov. 17, 1966
Studio Bradley's Barn, Mount Juliet, TN
Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, TN
Genre Country
Length 28:24
Label Decca
Producer Owen Bradley
Loretta Lynn chronology
Country Christmas
(1966)Country Christmas1966
Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)
(1967)
Singin' Again
(1967)Singin' Again1967
Singles from Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)
  1. "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)"
    Released: October 1966
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Allmusic 5/5 stars

Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) is the eighth studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on February 13, 1967, by Decca Records.

Allmusic gave Lynn's album a positive review, rating it five stars and calling her choice of selecting cover versions as something that "suits her perfectly", including her cover version of Ernest Tubb's "The Shoe Goes on the Other Foot Tonight".

The album peaked at No. 1 on Billboard"s Top Country Albums chart, and was the first album by a female Country singer to be certified Gold by the RIAA. The album also peaked at No. 80 on the Billboard 200. "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" was the only single released from the album and it peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, becoming Lynn's first No. 1 single.

This was the first album by a female country music artist to receive "Gold" certification by the RIAA. The album has sold sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide.

Recording for the album took place at Bradley's Barn in Mount Juliet, TN, over four sessions, beginning on July 7, 1966. Three more sessions would follow on October 3, October 5, and November 17, 1966. "Saint to a Sinner" was recorded during the November 15, 1966 session for 1966's I Like 'Em Country, at Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, TN.

AlbumBillboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)

^shipments figures based on certification alone


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