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Down Home is a studio album by American country artist,Melba Montgomery. It was released in August 1964 via United Artists Records and contained 11 tracks. It was the third studio disc released in Montgomery's recording career and her second as a solo artist. Many of the album's tracks were penned by Montgomery herself. Two of its singles reached charting positions on the American country songs chart. It received a positive review from Billboard magazine in 1964.
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- ↑ Malone, Bill, "Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection" ((booklet included with Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection 4-disc set). Smithsonian Institution, 1990).
- ↑ Jones, George; Carter, Tom (1996). I Lived to Tell it All. Villard. p. 89. ISBN 978-0679438694.
- ↑ Allen, Bob (1996). George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend. St Martin's Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0312956981.