Blue Kentucky Girl (Loretta Lynn album)

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Blue Kentucky Girl
Blue Kentucky Girl cover
Studio album by Loretta Lynn
Released 1965
Genre Country
Label Decca
Producer Owen Bradley
Professional reviews
Loretta Lynn chronology
Hymns
(1965)		 Blue Kentucky Girl
(1965)		 I Like 'em Country
(1966)

Blue Kentucky Girl is a 1965 studio album by American country singer-songwriter, Loretta Lynn.

The album was released off of Decca Records in 1965 and was Lynn's third studio album of the year and her fourth solo album up to that point. The album's title track was the song's only single and peaked in the Top 10 on the Billboard Country Chart in 1965. The album released 12 studio tracks. Four of these tracks were written or co-written by Lynn herself of with another songwriter. Lynn's own compostions at the time were not released as singles yet until Lynn was given more control on what she could record on her albums. The album included cover versions of previous Country hits, Connie Smith's "Then and Only Then" and Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone". The album peaked at #14 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart in 1965.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Blue Kentucky Girl" - (Mullins)
  2. "Then and Only Then" - (Anderson)
  3. "I Still Miss Someone" - (Cash, Cash)
  4. "Night Girl" - (Lynn, Wilburn)
  5. "Love's Been Here and Gone" - (Lynn, Wilburn)
  6. "Farther to Go"
  7. "The Race Is On" - (Rollins)
  8. "I Won't Forget You" - (Howard)
  9. "Two Steps Forward" - (Lynn)
  10. "Send Me a Pillow That You Dream on" - (Locklin)
  11. "Beginning of the End" - (Perry)
  12. "Today" - (Thompson)

[edit] Chart positions

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1965 Country Albums 14
1965 Pop Albums N/A

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1965 "Blue Kentucky Girl" Country Singles 14