“A Woman Lives For Love” by Wanda Jackson - album review

features in: Album Chart of 1970 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s

Her second LP of 1970, a short set of ten, and not as tough on the preceding “Wanda Jackson Country”. Pleasing many no doubt, the album opens with her recent big hit “A Woman Lives For Love” with which I'm somewhat underwhelmed. There's always something decent on her records though and “The Dirt Behind My Years” is a fine highlight, where an ex regrets the shabby treatment they handed out to the lost partner: “Now I'd lost the only one in life I held so dear, I slowly bury your love in the dirt behind my years”. Over on side two, she turns in a fair rendition of the popular “Stand By Your Man” (Tammy Wynette, 1968) and finishes the album strongly with “I’d Fight The World” (Johnny and Jonie Mosby, 1962). “Well-produced and sure to move well in stores” said Billboard. Bet they say that to all the paying pluggers.

The Jukebox Rebel
14–Aug–2015

Tracklist

A1	[02:43] Wanda Jackson - A Woman Lives For Love (George Richey, Glenn Sutton, Norris Wilson) Country
A2	[02:12] Wanda Jackson - It’s Such A Pretty World Today (Dale Noe) Country
A3	[02:21] Wanda Jackson - Stop The World (Yvonne DeVaney) Country
A4	[02:32] Wanda Jackson - The Dirt Behind My Years (Dale Davis) Country
A5	[02:22] Wanda Jackson - Walk Through This World With Me (Kay Savage, Sandra Seamons) Country
B1	[02:36] Wanda Jackson - Stand By Your Man (Billy Sherrill, Tammy Wynette) Country
B2	[03:02] Wanda Jackson - You’re The Only World I Know (Sonny James, Robert Tubert) Country
B3	[02:28] Wanda Jackson - One Minute Past Eternity (Stan Kesler, Bill Taylor) Country
B4	[02:15] Wanda Jackson - Let Trouble Be You (Yvonne DeVaney) Country
B5	[02:18] Wanda Jackson - I’d Fight The World (Joe Allison, Hank Cochran) Country

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