Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

I hate when republicans are talented

This is my most hated form of country. Sad sack crooner bullshit. Love sucks, you suck, I suck (but I'm going to blame it on you), everything's terrible so let's just make everything even more terrible (but it's your fault). I found exactly ZERO songs that were worth a second listen or even half a first listen. Hated it. This is why people don't like country music.

I'm very glad this album was included. Loretta Lynn's contribution to country music cannot be overstated. Her vocal performance is powerful and subtle. Female country singers are often noted for their powerful delivery, but Lynn showcases immense control and damn near perfect delivery (see 'I Really Don't Want to Know' for a masterclass in vocal delivery). The music itself is well crafted, and is more complex with its chord changes than one would think. It is designed to deliver the exact emotional resolution (or lack thereof) that the songwriter intends. In that, it excels.

No thanks. "This does not sound like a healthy relationship."

Girl, leave him.

Country music values are so fucked up.

Very Dolly. A diversion from my usual listening but thoroughly enjoyable. Interesting lyrics in relation to the recent discussions about women's safety and consent. The typical country theme of women fighting for their men, who, ruined with drink, treat them ill!

Oh Miss Loretta, you make me want to sit in a bar, drink whiskey, and cry. Great voice and phenomenal country record. Favorite tracks: "I Really Don't Want to Know", "Saint to a Sinner"

This has a very specific audience doesn't it!? Housewives, who's husband's are shits..... Unfortunately I don't fall into this category so it didn't really appeal. Very dated, both in how it sounded and thematically. Not my cup of tea. Perhaps if Loretta spent less time singing and recording songs, and more time doing as her husband told her, she may be in a better place, but alas

What vocals! A vibrato like Elvis, tone like Dolly, and great catchy and fun melodic songs from beginning to end. Top top country!

Classic weepy country. Loretta Lynn was such a badass. I can't help it, I love it.

Really enjoyed this. Made me read up on Lynn and, Trump aside, she sounds amazing.

Wow these songs are so powerful because of her honesty, emotion, storytelling, and voice. The band is great too. Makes me want to listen to the rest of her discography as well.

Proper tear-in-my-beer stuff. Everything on here just works, from the instrumentation to that keening voice. Wonderful, and a hint of the controversy to come over 'The Pill', later on.

I don't think this woman should be in this relationship anymore. 3/5

Bored. Nice slide playing, but same 2 country chords throughout.

Don't like country music at the best of times but this mardy Dolly knock off was a bad example of it. Loretta needs to choose her partners better as this bunch of pricks have driven her to write the same song a bunch of times. At least Dolly adds jaunty tunes to the songs that are actually about job issues and domestic violence. Down with this sort of thing.

I’d file this under “this really aged badly”, only that I suspect it was bad right from the start.

Love a woman who is just as bad as a man :)

Love her voice. So emotive. Really enjoy the arrangements and the mix too. Stripped down to the essentials so you can hear each element distinctly with the perfect amount of reverb and doubling thrown on the voice. It's so well balanced. A very warm and comfortable sound. Plus, she is a total badass. Nothing but respect for the brutal honesty being conveyed here.

Whiskey dick has been a problem for decades.

Cute. But she needs a better man. That guy sounds like a jerk to her.

There's really only one category of music I'm prepared to say I outright hate and it's country, but I did listen, and I am sad to say my hatred is justified. This is music for inbreds with Stockholm Syndrome marriages. It's so sickly and syrupy, and it's from 1967? That revolutionary year? It sounds like it could have passed without notiuce in 1947. Objectively the songs are straight ahead ballady stuff that could be done in any traditional style but even then none really caught my ear except to make me grimace at the weeping steel guitars. And it's message seems to be "men are so cruel, but well us gals just gunna have to deal with it". Maybe she's giving a voice to women in this situation but I don't care. Oh and it seems she was a Republican influencer of many decades standing, yeah that fits. How do I give minus stars?

I thought I might be coming around to liking some county music. Seems that there are types I like and types I dislike. This is one I dislike. Maudlin, sentimental and just not very interesting. It was going to be two stars but she endorsed Trump so it'll be the one.

Girl just leave him he ain't worth it

I tried. I really did. I suspect that Ms. Lynn is like a very fine wine and requires and acquired taste, or a predisposition to embrace the full-bodied style that she portrays. I... lack that level of refinement. 1 star: DNF.

Some good, ol' fashioned, country-fried feminism. One loves the sharp and hard-edged voice, the crisp, straightforward playing, the sad-funny lyrics and overall songrwriting chops – basically everything but the cover photo. Pure country and old-fashioned in the best way.

This is a fun, classic country album. Loretta Lynn's voice is a pleasure to listen to, and there's a nice balance between the punchy, strident tunes and the sweet and sad ones. Fave Songs: Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind), I Really Don't Want to Know, The Shoe Goes on the Other Foot Tonight, Tomorrow Never Comes, I Can't Keep Away from You

This is a high mark on this style of sound. I Really Don't Want To Know is begging for a modern cover. Tomorrow Never Comes is a stage for Loretta to really air out what she can do. The Devil Gets His Dues has this awesome major 7th root vocal movement and it kicks ass. This whole album is great!

No conocía a Loretta Lynn. Creo que me he convertido en fan de Loretta Lynn (creo... es difícil de decir con alguien que por lo que leo tiene 60 discos y que acabo de conocer). Si hubiera un premio para mayor grado de disparidad entre calidad de la portada y calidad de la música sin duda al menos llegaría a los finalistas. Mientras lo escuchaba me llegó un punto de "eureka" de por qué de primera instancia me agradó tanto su música; su voz no se siente trabajada, justamente esa cara de "señora del coro de la iglesia" de la portada le queda a la perfección porque se siente como si fuera un amateur con una voz espectacular. Se oye dulce, simple, con potencia pero sin querer abusar de ella ni intentando lucirse. No se qué tan acertada sea mi apreciación sobre su poco o mucho entrenamiento vocal pero cualquiera que sea la respuesta el sonido de su voz es maravilloso. Pasando al siguiente punto, es un disco que se siente obligado a que se le ponga atención a las letras sobre todo al considerar que es un disco de Country en 1967. Temáticamente se me hace muy interesante y quizá importante el ver como se empiezan a colar ideas de la importancia de la mujer en este género y con un dejo de "no mamen pinches hombres". No podría decir que fuera un disco "feminista," no se siente sermoneador ni como tal que reproche directamente, pero sí como el inicio de algo que llevará a una mayor importancia temática para la mujer en el género. Me agrada que por un lado le baja el romantizar la idea del Outlaw Country (de lo cual quizá soy bastante culpable, sorry-not sorry, me sigue gustando aunque comprendo sus puntos problemáticos), y habla sobre el otro lado de la moneda y cómo en la vida real el "forajido" el alcohólico irredimible e incluso criminal es algo que a nadie le cae bien. En cuanto a su música es country country, no se complica, suena a lo que se piensa cuando alguien menciona el género, con mucha calidad, con la suavidad esperada que si uno no oye la letra te puede poner en un estado casi zen y si escuchas las letras a veces llegas a esa distonía entre una música dulce y letras que sorprenden en su temática; de eso se trata el country y en ese aspecto solo puedo decir que está muy bien armado. Una sorpresa muy agradable para algo que de inicio pensé iba a ser algo totalmente estándar o que hasta me iba a aburrir.

Because country music is a style of music that is rigidly tied to tradition (or at least used to be), it’s difficult for me to tell if this is good, great, or just ok record…it sounds like many of the other country records from this era I’ve ever heard.

Highlight: Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind). The rest is rather unmemorable.

Title track is amazing, 5 stars for sure but the rest of the album get's a bit repetitive. Like most classic country, these artist were more singles orientated than album.

This is the usual type of music I say I don't like, but there's something about Lynn that's so complelling that you can't help but notice. I prefer Coal Miner's Daughter to this one, but this one was perfectly fine to listen to. Although I have to say that the quality of the recording itself took me out of the music a little bit, it's pretty bad.

I don't mind a bit of melodic twangy country. This is almost too much of it but every time I got bored I looked at that velour jacket and sports shirt combo on the album cover and was invigorated again.

Oldie country album that has short songs and simple lyrics which has made Loretta an icon. To me it’s an above average album but I don’t seem myself listening to it a lot. 6.6/10

I would sample this but wouldn’t listen. Love the vibes but ironically not vibing this

Not my favorite album. I'm much more of a fan of her later stuff, but I just love Loretta.

I had enough after first 30 seconds. What the hell is this, why do people listen to it at all?

Domestic battery doo bee doo bee doo

67 was the same year Hendrix had two of his absolute GOAT albums. Disraeli Gears by Cream. The Doors, by (you guessed it) The Doors. SERGEANT FUCKING PEPPERS. leave this shite in the dark ages.

Well I am irritated my review of yesterday's album didn't stick. Also I am irritated by this album. This woman appears to have been in awful relationships. Also, this woman appears to have been awful in relationships. Dated, stale, grating, repetitive content about how terrible she and everyone around her are.

Dump this from the list

Sassy and perfect

Loretta is a country icon for a reason and this album shows that in spades. Folks calling her a Dolly knock-off don’t know their music history.

Like the feminist take on this album. She's a queen.

Really dig this one, even if she looks like a school librarian on the cover. No real fat, a solid old school country sound that I dig.

Absolute gold. “Don’t Come Home A Drinking” is a country classic for a reason, but this record is extremely strong top to bottom. The vocals are remarkable, and the songwriting clever. Other highlights are “Saint to Sinner” and “Get Whatcha Got and Go”.

Loretta is my jam, what can I say

Toxic relationship concept album based on her own life. So basically it's classic old country. I enjoyed this album lyrically and of course the vocals are great.

1. Don't come home a-drinkin' 2. The devil gets his due 3. I really don't want to know Banger! Er en sucker for 60s country. Fett at hun og søsteren, som selvfølgelig heter Peggy Sue, skrev tittel-låten. Skal definitivt se biografien 'coal miners daughter' fra 1980.

Oh, Loretta! Loved the album and the honesty, found it quite punk. But I do agree with the one review that says - girl, leave him.

Loved the audience participation in particular

I fucking love Loretta Lynn

In addition to her great songwriting and singing, she is backed by a great band here. This is a perfect country album.

sad country songs about crummy dudes hell yeah! When I think heartbreak country music this is pretty much what I mean. Loretta nails it, now to drown my sorrows in a small town bar.

Normally when every song is identical on an album that’s a Negative, but for some reason it didn’t bother me with this album. Loved these country songs about heartbreaks and shitty dudes!

yes

Albums don't get much more perfect than this. And don't fuck with Loretta.

Great great album. Really showcases for talent the best I think.

Music from this era just can't do no wrong to me. So classic, romantic, comforting. This is an album full of songs I recognize and love but never knew who the artist was. Probably going to play it on repeat this weekend.

go off sis!!!!! that was a great album, great storytelling, clever lyrics, good sounds all around. and such a journey from start to end, im almost at the edge of my seat waiting to hear what happens next but also omg girl just let that man go... dump him!!!

This songbird knows all the feelings!

Love this album. Loretta the GOAT

All timer, no skips, perfect combination of her unbeatable vocals with a buncha guys singing backup like they know what they did wrong

No notes Loretta Lynn is a boss

Very comforting.

Pure God given talent. Pure American music.

5

As someone going through a breakup, this album is phenomenal. It amazes me how the experience of being a woman has remained the same even through the generations. Incredible listen.

Doesn't get much more classic country than this, and it's well worth a perfect score.

I had heard songs by her before but never albums. As an album she is kind of a bad a$$. For the time frame and the country conservative world, go Loretta telling your man to leave you alone when he comes home drunk! Or being all scandalous and doing the things a man does in I Got Caught! I need to investigate the wonderful world of Loretta Lynn further, you go girl with your beautiful voice and awesome lyrics!

9/10

Every country cliche in the book and its glorious. Twangy guitars duelling, that lap steel slide sound, honky tonk barroom piano, close harmonies, simple cowboy chords and a basic oompa doompa bass, all performed and captured perfectly. It's an amazing collection snarky "I'm so goddamn sick of your bullshit" songs sung with an incredible combination pissed off verve and oh so sweet charm.

Just to clarify, Loretta preceded Dolly by about 10 years. Loretta is a fabulous singer, and her songs are typical of country during her time. Remember, in the 1950-1960 era poor women were in a pickle. No birth control so they popped out numerous kids and were completely dependent on their husbands for money. For most in rural areas, work wasn't paid well, and it was tough to get out of poverty. Boy did these songs hit home for so many people! I haven't heard her in a long time, and her vocals are stunning to me. They're perfect. I also like the arrangments. They're really strong and not over the top. 5 stars! Go Loretta!

I exclusively want to drink in barrooms that play Loretta Lynn

I know of Loretta Lynn, but I'm completely unfamiliar with her music. First things first: this album title. 10/10, no notes. Post 9/11 country could never do this. The bar has been set pretty high. The star of the show on this album is the songwriting. From the title track to the bitter end, this album is filled with clever and succinct lyrics. I loved the subtlety contained in these lyrics. Take the title track, for example. Lynn tells her lover not to expect her to reciprocate his advances after he's left her alone all night to go out drinking with his friends. She never states her emotions, she only laments his actions and that he leaves her all alone. But we can tell through her singing just how unwanted and used she feels. Through so few words, Lynn manages to paint a vivid picture of this interaction. "I Really Don't Want To Know" is outstanding as well. I loved that I wasn't sure whether she was wondering about her lover's past flings, or if she was wondering about the women he's been seeing behind her back in the present. Or maybe both. The things left unsaid are powerful, and Lynn's voice really adds to the heartache. The last song I'll mention is "The Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight." I love how it's vindictive without being angry; the emotion that led to the vengeful action of the narrator isn't what's important, and it doesn't even need to be stated, because it would be redundant. This song is all about actions, and Lynn sings it to perfection. This isn't the type of album I'd normally gravitate towards, but the songwriting is outstanding, and it's just an incredibly well made album, worthy of five stars.

incredible, that old country is timeless and a never skip

Every somg is a bop

People will be quick to shoot this album down just because it's "country", but this stuff is absolutely great. Loretta Lynn has a great voice and the instruments all hit. Put this on the jukebox in your local dive bar and get to foot tappin. Love the vibes.

This whole record is great. Loretta Lynn’s voice is perfect for these tunes. Her band is cracking. With a 28 minute runtime you can’t go wrong.

The quintessential breakup album by the queen of country. This is everything.

PERFECTION

Straight from Butcher's holler!!

Phenomenal lyrics and vocal performance. The classic country accompaniments are not my preferred jam, but are very listenable nonetheless, and don't get in Loretta's way.

Nice

Love old country music! Great artist and sound!

Very nice

New Artist for me. Great album. Relatively new to older country, solid entry album. Will explore more

Absolutely cutting lyrics, especially for 1967

This goes crazy

LOVE

Leave him it ain’t worth it

Two-thirds of the way through this project and there hasn't been a single album by Tammy Wynette or Patsy Cline or even Dolly Parton. Where have all the classic country queens been? So hooray for Loretta Lynn finally making the list! These were heartfelt songs giving a needed voice to so many women's emotions (my wife said "amen!" when I told her the title). This had never been the sort of music I listened to much before, but I want to hear more.

Sometimes these classic country tunes are a bit sleepy to me, and last night when I started the album, that is exactly what it did to me...made me sleepy. I wasn't complaining, but it wasn't really making me all that excited. Then this morning when I started where I left off, it was awesome and catchy and classic. Once I finished, I started it again, and loved it.

Wonderful. I wish it was twice as long.

Ten or so years ago I was working on a playlist for an anniversary party where classic country was the primary fare. That’s when I discovered this album with its 60’s feminist streak I immediately loved. Absolutely fantastic classic country with those classic themes delivered by that incredible Loretta Lynn voice!

Oh My lord. These grand old american vibes, i cant help it, i just loved!

Yee haw!

This list has really cemented for me how absolutely in the pocket I am for 60s country/western music in general, but specifically 60s country/western music from powerful women who hate their drunk husbands.