Seven Year Ache

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Seven Year Ache
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 28, 1981
Recorded1980
Studio
Genre Country
Length32:45
Label Columbia (United States/Canada)
Ariola (international)
Producer Rodney Crowell
Rosanne Cash chronology
Right or Wrong
(1979)
Seven Year Ache
(1981)
Somewhere in the Stars
(1982)
Singles from Seven Year Ache
  1. "Seven Year Ache"
    Released: February 15, 1981
  2. "My Baby Thinks He's a Train"
    Released: August 29, 1981
  3. "Blue Moon with Heartache"
    Released: December 19, 1981
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Stylus Magazine B+ [3]
Uncut 8/10 [4]
The Village Voice B+ [5]

Seven Year Ache is the third studio album by American country music singer Rosanne Cash, and her second for Columbia Records. It was released on February 28, 1981, and reached number one on the Billboard country album chart. [6] Three singles were released from her album; in the order of the singles' release they were: the title track, My Baby Thinks He's a Train, and Blue Moon with Heartache.

Contents

The album was mastered a few days following the murder of John Lennon. As a tribute to Lennon, Cash asked the mastering engineer to scratch the message “Goodbye, John” into the run-out groove of the mother vinyl. This etching was limited to the first 25,000 copies of the album.[ citation needed ]

The CD was reissued in 2005 in an edition which was part of the American Milestone series from Sony BMG, which later identified the reissue as being among the 52 CD titles that were deemed to have been shipped with Extended Copy Protection (XCP) computer software. [7] [8] As a result, all Microsoft Windows computer that were used to play the reissue are likely to have had XCP installed. This can cause a number of serious security problems. Several security software vendors, including Microsoft, regard XCP as a trojan horse, spyware, or rootkit. [9] Sony discontinued use of the technology on November 11, 2005, [10] and recalled this and other titles affected by XCP, and asked customers to submit copies affected by the software to the company so that it could replace them with copies that did not contain the software. [11]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rainin'" Keith Sykes 2:54
2."Seven Year Ache" Rosanne Cash 3:15
3."Blue Moon with Heartache"Cash4:28
4."What Kinda Girl?" Steve Forbert 2:47
5."You Don't Have Very Far to Go" Merle Haggard, Red Simpson 2:35
6."My Baby Thinks He's a Train"Leroy Preston3:13
7."Only Human"Sykes4:00
8."Where Will the Words Come From?" Glen Hardin, Sonny Curtis 2:45
9."Hometown Blues" Tom Petty 2:58
10."I Can't Resist" Hank DeVito, Rodney Crowell 3:25

Personnel

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Charts

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