Highways & Heartaches (Ricky Skaggs album)

Highways & Heartaches
Highways & Heartaches
Studio album by Ricky Skaggs
Released	1982
Studio	Audio Media Recorders (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country
Length	36:55
Label	Epic
Producer	Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs chronology
Singles from Highways & Heartaches
	"Heartbroke"; Released: July 1982; "I Wouldn't Change You If I Could"; Released: January 17, 1983; "Highway 40 Blues"; Released: March 1983; "You've Got a Lover"; Released: July 1983;

Released1982

StudioAudio Media Recorders (Nashville, Tennessee)

GenreCountry

Length36:55

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Highways & Heartaches is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Ricky Skaggs. It was released in 1982 via Epic Records. The album peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.^[2]

This album is cited in the 2023 book Highways and Heartaches: How Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and Children of the New South Saved the Soul of Country Music, by the American academic Michael Streissguth.^[3] The book covers the evolution of country music from the rural routes of 1970s Appalachia to the 1980s country music boom.

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Heartbroke"	Guy Clark	3:16
2.	"You've Got a Lover"	Shake Russell	3:58
3.	"Don't Think I'll Cry"	Wayland Patton	2:39
4.	"Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die"	Zeke Manners, Clark Van Ness	3:58
5.	"Nothing Can Hurt You"	John Salz	4:44
6.	"I Wouldn't Change You If I Could"	Paul Jones, Arthur Q. Smith	3:02
7.	"Can't You Hear Me Callin'"	Bill Monroe	3:48
8.	"Highway 40 Blues"	Larry Cordle	3:10
9.	"Let's Love the Bad Times Away"	Patton	2:46
10.	"One Way Rider"	Rodney Crowell	5:27
Total length:			36:48

Chart (1982)	Peak position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[4]	1
US Billboard 200^[5]	61

v t e Ricky Skaggs
Studio albums	Waitin' for the Sun to Shine Highways & Heartaches Don't Cheat in Our Hometown Country Boy Love's Gonna Get Ya! Comin' Home to Stay Kentucky Thunder My Father's Son
Collaborative albums	Skaggs & Rice Bluegrass Rules! Ancient Tones Brand New Strings Instrumentals Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby Salt of the Earth Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947
Live albums	Live in London
Notable singles	"You May See Me Walkin'" "Crying My Heart Out Over You" "I Don't Care" "Heartbroke" "I Wouldn't Change You If I Could" "Highway 40 Blues" "You've Got a Lover" "Don't Cheat in Our Hometown" "Honey (Open That Door)" "Uncle Pen" "Something in My Heart" "Country Boy" "You Make Me Feel Like a Man" "Cajun Moon" "I've Got a New Heartache" "Love's Gonna Get You Someday" "Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This" (with Sharon White) "Thanks Again" "Lovin' Only Me" "Let It Be You" "Heartbreak Hurricane" "Hummingbird" "He Was On to Somethin' (So He Made You)" "Life's Too Long (To Live Like This)" "Same Ol' Love" "Cat's in the Cradle"
Related articles	Discography Mark O'Connor Kentucky Thunder "Make You Mine"

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