I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living

"I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living"
Single by Hank Williams
B-side "May You Never Be Alone"
Released January 1950
Recorded August 30, 1949, Herzog Studio, Cincinnati
Genre Country, blues
Length 2:47
Label MGM
Writer(s) Hank Williams
Hank Williams singles chronology
"My Bucket's Got a Hole in It"
(1949)
"I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living"
(1950)
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues"
(1950)

"I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living" is a song written by Hank Williams and released as his thirteenth single on MGM Records in January 1950.

Background

The song expresses frustration and resentment towards a frigid woman who will not reciprocate the narrator's affection. The song, which alludes to "fussin' and fightin'" and contains the line "You ain't never bin known to be wrong, and I ain't never bin right," was likely inspired by Hank's tumultuous relationship with his wife at the time, Audrey Williams, with biographer Colin Escott musing, "Audrey's thoughts can only be guessed at as she heard the substance of their domestic disputes on the radio, particularly as only one side ever got aired."[1] Williams recorded the song on August 30, 1949 at Herzog Studio in Cincinnati, Ohio (the same session that produced the B-side "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"). He is backed by members of the Pleasant Valley Boys - Zeke Turner (lead guitar), Jerry Byrd (steel guitar), and Louis Innis (rhythm guitar) - as well as Tommy Jackson (fiddle) and Ernie Newton (bass)."[2] The song peaked at #5 on the country singles chart.

Johnny Horton recorded the song around 1960. George Jones also recorded it for his 1962 album My Favorites of Hank Williams on United Artists. In 1965 the song appeared as an overdubbed duet by Williams and his son Hank Williams, Jr.

References

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