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Run, Woman, Run: Morello Brings Two Tammy Wynette Albums to CD

July 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tammy Wynette - First Lady Two-FerThe late country queen Tammy Wynette has been the recipient of much reissue love lately, with release coming on both sides of the Atlantic from labels including Real Gone Music and BGO Records.  Now, Cherry Red Group imprint Morello Records has turned its attention to two of Wynette's solo albums recorded during her famously tumultuous marriage to George Jones.  The First Lady/We Can Sure Love Each Other brings to one CD her Epic albums from 1970 and 1971, respectively.

Tammy Wynette's winning streak began with her debut album for Epic, 1967's Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad - a No. 7 hit on the Country Albums chart.  The First Lady, her eighth album for the label, reached No. 2 on the Country chart; indeed, every one of her LPs since 1967 had reached the Top 10 except for 1969's Inspiration which plateaued at a more-than-respectable No. 19.  Billy Sherrill had co-produced and written songs for Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad, and was still working with Wynette in both capacities for The First Lady.  "Run, Woman, Run," the LP's opening track, continued Tammy's streak of No. 1 Country hits.  (With its admonition to "run back to your man," it didn't endear Wynette to those who found the sentiment of her "Stand by Your Man" hopelessly antiquated.  No matter for Tammy; "Stand by Your Man" went to No. 1 Country, No. 19 Pop, No. 11 AC and was also the best-selling country single by a female artist ever to that point.  "Run, Woman, Run" - which also cracked the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 92 - was joined by other selections including covers of hits by Connie Smith ("I Never Once Stopped Loving You") and Barbara Mandrell ("Playin' Around with Love").  Wynette co-wrote just one track on the album ("My Daddy Doll"), with Sherrill credited or co-credited for six tracks.  The Jordanaires also lent their vocal flair to The First Lady.

The solo Wynette followed up The First Lady in 1971 with the summer release of We Can Sure Love Each Other.  It did almost as well as its predecessor, reaching No. 8 Country.  Wynette teamed with producer Sherrill to co-write the title track which peaked at No. 2 Country and "bubbled under" the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 103.  Sherrill penned another trio of songs for the LP, including "Bring Him Safely Home to Me," "Have a Little Faith," and "If You Think I Love You Now."  Wynette continued exploring familiar if controversial themes on such songs as "Don't Liberate Me (Love Me)."  The Jordanaires again provided background vocals.  Just a few months after the release of We Can Sure Love Each Other, in November 1971, Tammy teamed with husband George Jones for their first album of duets, We Go Together.  It made No. 3 on the Country chart.

Morello's two-fer release from the First Lady of Country Music is available now in the U.K. and on June 30 in the U.S.!  It contains a booklet with new liner notes from Michael Heatley as well as the original notes from The First Lady.  Alan Wilson has remastered both albums.  You can pre-order below!

Tammy Wynette, The First Lady/We Can Sure Love Each Other (Morello MRLL42, 2015) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

  1. Run, Woman, Run
  2. Wish I Had a Mommy Like You
  3. True and Lasting Love
  4. I Never Once Stopped Loving You
  5. Safe in These Lovin' Arms of Mine
  6. Sally Trash
  7. My Daddy Doll
  8. The Lovin' Kind
  9. He's Still My Man
  10. Buy Me a Daddy
  11. Playin' Around with Love
  12. We Sure Can Love Each Other
  13. The Joy of Being a Woman
  14. He Knows All the Way to Love
  15. Make Me Your Kind of Woman
  16. Don't Liberate Me (Love Me)
  17. Bring Him Safely Home to Me
  18. The Only Thing
  19. Longing to Hold You Again
  20. Have a Little Faith
  21. If You Think I Love You Now
  22. Baby, Come Home

Tracks 1-11 from The First Lady, Epic LP E 30213, 1970
Tracks 12-22 from We Sure Can Love Each Other, Epic LP E 30658, 1971

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Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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