Bad Seed (Jan Howard album)

Jan Howard was the wife of country songwriter Harlan Howard and with his help, she secured her own recording contract. Her first commercial success was the top 20 country song "The One You Slip Around With" (1960). Her career stalled for several years until 1966 when "Evil on Your Mind" reached the country top five and was followed by "Bad Seed". Her second Decca studio album was named for the latter recording and was produced by Owen Bradley. Bad Seed consisted of 12 tracks Among the covers were "The Tip of My Fingers", "Born a Woman", "The Hurtin's All Over", "I Get the Fever" and "There Goes My Everything". ==Release, critical reception, chart performance and singles==

Bad Seed was released in November 1966 by Decca Records and was the third studio album in Howard's career. The label distributed it as a vinyl LP in both mono and stereo formats. Six tracks were featured on each side of the disc. Its only single was the title track, which first released by Decca in September 1967. It rose to number ten on the US Billboard country songs chart in late 1966. ==Track listing==