Just Call Me Lonesome | ||||
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Released | June 1963 | |||
Recorded | April–June 1962 | |||
Studio | Columbia (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
Genre | Country, honky tonk | |||
Label | Decca | |||
Producer | Owen Bradley | |||
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Just Call Me Lonesome is an album by American country singer Ernest Tubb, released in 1963 (see 1963 in music). [1]
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All songs by Rex Griffin unless otherwise noted.
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