How Blue
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| "How Blue" | ||||
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| Single by Reba McEntire | ||||
| from the album My Kind of Country | ||||
| B-side | "That's What He Said" | |||
| Released | September 24, 1984 | |||
| Recorded | 1984 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:42 | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
| Songwriter(s) | John Moffat | |||
| Producer(s) | Harold Shedd | |||
| Reba McEntire singles chronology | ||||
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"How Blue" is a song written by John Moffat, and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire. It was released in September 1984 as the first single from the album My Kind of Country. It was her third number one single on the Billboard country music chart and would be the first of a series of number one singles during the 1980s and 1990s.
"How Blue" was recorded at the MCA studio in Nashville, Tennessee in 1984. The song was one of several new tracks released on McEntire's second MCA album, My Kind of Country, which mainly included cover versions of traditional country songs. The song itself was considered a departure from any of McEntire's previously released singles, as it contained a traditional sound, with fiddle and steel guitar in the background.[1]
Cover versions
Country music singer Dolly Parton covered the song from the television special CMT Giants: Reba