The Other Woman was Ray Price's follow-up to his classic Night Life album and on it he continued to work the seasoned Texas honky tonk he and the Cherokee Cowboys had been perfecting since the mid-'50s — this in the midst of his initial foray into the country pop style he would eventually embrace. With Cherokee alumni Buddy Emmons on guitar and pedal steel, Tommy Jackson on fiddle, and Buddy Harmon handling the drums, Price works some choice country terrain including a lazy shuffle rendition of the perennial "Born to Lose" and a show-stopping version of Floyd Tillman's "This Cold War With You." He turns in a smoldering version of the classic, blues-tinged "Funny How Time Slips Away," penned by one-time Cherokee Cowboy Willie Nelson. Price's famous shuffle beat style is still intact here, too, on the chart-topping title track, Hank Cochran's codependency nugget "Don't You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me," and a pair of Fred Carter gems — "Too Much Love is Spoiling You" and "Rose Colored Glasses" — all benefiting from Emmons' stellar pedal steel work. The album is rounded out by a touching version of the Patsy Cline hit "Unloved, Unwanted" and the beautiful waltz "The Last Letter." The Other Woman does not quite match the variety or song quality of Night Life, but the steady delivery of fine country material as well as the spacious Grady Martin production make for very enjoyable listening.
RAY PRICE
THE OTHER WOMAN
Columbia CS-9182Steptember/1965
Produced by Don Law & Frank Jones
Grady Martin - guitarGrady Martin - rh.guitar
Harold Bradley - bass guitar
Buddy Emmons - steel
Joe Zinkan - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Tommy Jackson - fiddle
Floyd Cramer - piano
Recorded:
Feb 6/1964, Columbia Studios, Nashville (10)
March 9/1965, Columbia Studios, Nashville (1)
May 10-11/1965, Columbia Studios, Nashville (2-9,11,12)
1.
OTHER WOMAN (IN MY LIFE)
(Don Rollins) « © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »Don't accuse me of being without feelings
If you do you'll know that your're wrong
For it was you who was careless
And you drove me into another's arms
The other woman isn't prettier than you
But the other woman soothes my wounded pride
And more important I feel wanted again
I can't give up the other woman in my life
[ steel - fiddle ] Now I'm a float in the middle of a river
And I can't climb out on either side
And if I go over the deep end
It's because sweetheart you haven't tried
The other woman isn't prettier than you...
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2.
DON'T YOU EVER GET TIRED (OF HURTIN' ME)
(Hank Cochran) « © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »You make my eyes run over all the time
You're happy when I'm out of my mind
You don't love me but you won't let me be
Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me
You must think I look bad with a smile
For you haven't let me wear on in such a long long while
Still I keep running back why must this be
Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me
[ steel ] You must think I look bad with a smile...
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3.
AFTER EFFECTS (FROM LOVING YOU)
(Hank Mills) « © '65 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »Nights are longer when you're blue and all alone
Seems eternity will past before the dawn
I've tried everything but I can't seem to lose
All these after affects from loving you
Now I may tell myself I'll find an easy way
To escape this misery from day to day
But my heart knows good and well it's only you
Who can ease my troubled mind and erase the pain you find
From the after affects from loving you
[ fiddle ] Now I may tell myself I'll find an easy way...
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4.
TOO MUCH LOVE IS SPOILING YOU
(Fred Carter) « © '65 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »I gave you everything that you asked for
I never criticized the things you do
Now I see what I'm letting myself in for
I'm afraid that too much love is spoiling you
When there's not enough love that means a broken hearted game
What I was to know that too much love will always do the same
More and more you are taking me for granted
I do every single thing you want me to
It may be wrong but I know I'll never change it
It's my fault if too much love is spoiling you
[ steel ] When there's not enough love...
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5.
EYE FOR AN EYE
(Johnny Bush) « © '65 Sure-Fire Music, BMI »Just because you lost your heart did you lose your conscience too
Why must you punish me for what he's done to you
Hatred caused by injured pride made you lie and deceive
You can't get back again so you take it out on me
And eye for an eye a heart for a heart
You're making me pay for another man's crime
And eye for an eye a heart for a heart
You didn't have one so you took mine
[ fiddle ] It was just a game with you with no feeling or regret
You thought by hurting me it would help you to forget
Will I be like you are now will I do the things you've done
Will another have to lose before I can say I won
And eye for an eye a heart for a heart...
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6.
UNLOVED UNWANTED
(Wayne P. Walker - Irene Stanton) « © '64 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »Unloved unwanted I've never been so blue
I know that I should leave but I don't want to
Unloved unwanted is the life I live with you
I know that I should leave but I don't want to
You have my name you wear my ring
I remember when our love was real
You're in his arms he has your heart
Are you happy with the kisses that you steal
Unloved unwanted I've never been so blue
I know that I should leave but I don't want to
[ steel ] You have my name you wear my ring...
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7.
FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY
(Willie Nelson) « © '61 Tree Publishing, BMI »Well hello there my it's been a long long time
How am I doin' oh I guess that I'm doin' fine
It's been so long now and it seems now that it was yesterday
Oh ain't it funny how time slips away
[ guitar ] Say how's your new love I hope he's doing fine
I heard you told him that you'd love him till the end of time
Now that's the same thing that you told me it seems like yesterday
Oh ain't it funny how time slips away
[ guitar ] I gotta go now I hope I'll see you around
But I don't know when though never know when I'll be back in town
But remember what I tell you in time you're gonna pay
Oh ain't it funny how time slips away
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8.
BORN TO LOSE
(Frankie Brown) « © '43 Peer International, BMI »Born to lose I've lived my life in vain
Every dream has only brought me pain
All my life I've always been so blue
Born to lose and now I'm losing you
Born to lose it seems so hard to bear
How I long to always have you near
You've grown tired and now you say we're through
Born to lose and now I'm losing you
[ steel ] Born to lose my every hope is gone
It's so hard to face an empty dawn
You were all the happiness I knew
Norn to lose and now I'm losing you
There's no use to dream of happiness
All I see is only loneliness
All my life I've always been so blue
Born to lose and now I'm losing you
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9.
JUST CALL ME LONESOME
(Rex Griffin) « © '53 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »Why must I love the heartless one who'll never know the harm she's done
Though love is blind I should have known just call me lonesome from now on
I climb the stairs up to my room but no one meets me in the gloom
The silence tells me you are gone just call me lonesome from now on
[ steel ] These walls will hide me when I cry and pray that heaven lets me die
If I must live and love alone just call me lonesome from now on
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10.
THIS COLD WAR WITH YOU
(Floyd Tillman) « © '49 Peer International, BMI »The sun goes down it leaves me sad and blue
The iron curtain falls on this cold war with you
For you won't speak and I won't speak it's true
Two stubborn people with a cold war to go through
Why oh why should love ever come to couples like you and me
Whose cold cold wars are never done and whose hearts just can't be free
So let's make up or let's just say we're through
I just can't stand another cold cold war with you
Why oh why should love ever come...
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11.
ROSE COLORED GLASSES
(Fred Carter) « © '65 Tree Publishing, BMI »A perfect kind of love is what you want from me
If I could I'd gladly give you more
But I know I can never paint for you
The pretty pictures you are searching for
You're wearing rose colored glasses everywhere you go
Cause you only want to see the brighter sight
You're wearing rose colored glasses cause someone hurt you so
And rose colored glasses help you high
[ steel ] You're wearing rose colored glasses...
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12.
LAST LETTER
(Rex Griffin) « © '39 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »Why do you treat me as if I was only a friend
What have I done that has made you so different and cold
Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again
Will you be happy when you are withered and old
[ guitar ] I cannot offer you diamonds or mansions so fine
I cannot buy you the clothes that your young body crave
But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine
Think of the heartaches the sorrow the teardrops you'll save
[ steel ] When you grow weary and tired of another's caress
When you are lonely remember this letter my own
But don't try to answer for there's one thing I'll have to confess
If you don't love me I wish you would leave me alone
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