Love and Other Hard Times
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{{Infobox album
| name = Love and Other Hard Times
| type = studio
| artist = Eddy Raven
| cover = Love and other hard times.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1985
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Country
| length =
| label = RCA Victor
| producer = {{hlist|Eddy Raven|Paul Worley}}
| prev_title = I Could Use Another You
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = Right Hand Man
| next_year = 1986
}}
Love and Other Hard Times is the sixth studio album by American country music singer Eddy Raven. It was released in 1985 by RCA Records.
Content and reception
Three singles from the album made the Hot Country Songs charts: "Operator, Operator", "I Wanna Hear It from You", and "You Should Have Been Gone by Now".{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2017|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2017|pages=293–294|isbn=978-0-89820-229-8}}
Cash Box reviewed the album positively, stating that it was "another exhibition of his fine vocal range and his valuable songwriting ability."{{cite journal | url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Cash-Box/80s/1985/CB-1985-06-29.pdf | title=Country album reviews | journal=Cash Box | pages=32 | date=June 29, 1985}} Billboard also published a positive review of the album, which said that his "haunting and sincere voice is matched here by some of the best material he's recorded in recent years."{{cite magazine | url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1985/BB-1985-06-29.pdf | title=Reviews | magazine=Billboard | pages=66 | date=June 29, 1985}}
Track listing
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| title1 = I Wanna Hear It from You
| writer1 = Nancy Montgomery, Rick Giles
| length1 = 3:18
| title2 = Room to Run
| writer2 = Eddy Raven, Dave Powelson
| length2 = 2:59
| title3 = You Should Have Been Gone by Now
| writer3 = Raven, Don Pfrimmer, Frank J. Myers
| length3 = 3:24
| title4 = Easy Time
| writer4 = Raven, Powelson
| length4 = 3:10
| title5 = Changes
| writer5 = Raven, Myers, Tanya Tucker
| length5 = 3:39
| title6 = Operator, Operator
| writer6 = Larry Willoughby, Janet Willoughby
| length6 = 3:04
| title7 = We Robbed Trains
| writer7 = Raven
| length7 = 4:17
| title8 = The Song I Said I'd Never Write for You
| writer8 = Raven, Myers, Powelson
| length8 = 3:57
| title9 = The Art of Getting By
| writer9 = Myers, Steve Dean
| length9 = 3:24
| title10 = I'm Just Someone You Run From
| writer10 = Raven, A.L. "Doodle" Owens
| length10 = 2:37
}}
Personnel
- Eddie Bayers - drums
- Barry Beckett - keyboards
- Dennis Burnside - keyboards, synthesizer
- Don Gant - background vocals
- Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
- David Innis - synthesizer
- Frank J. Myers - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Mark O'Connor - fiddle, mandolin
- Joe Osborn - bass guitar
- Eddy Raven - lead vocals
- James Stroud - drums
- Dennis Wilson - background vocals
- Paul Worley - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Reggie Young - electric guitar
Chart performance
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| scope="col"| Chart (1985)
! scope="col"| Peak |
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| {{album chart|BillboardCountry|64|artist=Eddy Raven|rowheader=true|accessdate=December 19, 2017}} |
References
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