Hittin' the Road (Ernest Tubb album)

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Hittin' the Road
Hittin the Road Ernest Tubb.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1965
RecordedApril–June 1965
Studio RCA Studio B (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre Country, Honky tonk
Label Decca
Producer Owen Bradley
Ernest Tubb chronology
My Pick of the Hits
(1965)
Hittin' the Road
(1965)
Stand by Me
(1966)

Hittin' the Road is an album by American country singer Ernest Tubb, released in 1965 (see 1965 in music). [1]

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Track listing

  1. "Give Me a Little Old Fashioned Love" (Ernest Tubb)
  2. "I'm a Sad Lonely Man" (Glenn Raye, Ralph Davis)
  3. "Cocoanut Grove" (Harry Owens)
  4. "All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers" (Liz Anderson)
  5. "Throw Your Love My Way" (Tubb, Loys Southerland)
  6. "Afraid to Care" (Jack Greene, Ken Campbell)
  7. "Honeymoon With the Blues" (Eddie Noack, Walt Breeland)
  8. "I'm With a Crowd But So Alone" (Tubb, Carl Story)
  9. "Precious Little Baby" (Lee Roberts)
  10. "Big Beaver" (Bob Wills)
  11. "What Am I Bid" (Leon Rhodes, Clay Allen)
  12. "That's When It's Coming Home to You" (Tubb, Lois Snapp)

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 "Hittin' the Road > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved July 9, 2011.