| 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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