"Hurt Me Bad (In a Real Good Way)" is a song written by

Deborah Allen Deborah Allen (born Deborah Lynn Thurmond on September 30, 1953) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart. She recorded the 1 ...

and Rafe Van Hoy, and recorded by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

artist

Patty Loveless Patty Loveless (born Patricia Lee Ramey, January 4, 1957) is an American country music singer. She began performing in her teenaged years before signing her first recording contract with MCA Records' Nashville division in 1985. While her first ...

. It was released in September 1991 as the first single from her album ''

Up Against My Heart ''Up Against My Heart'' is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Patty Loveless. It was her final studio album for MCA Records. The album produced the singles "Hurt Me Bad (In a Real Good Way)", "Jealous Bone", and "Can't Stop M ...

''.

Background

According to Loveless: "Hurt Me Bad ... actually Tony Brown was playing some stuff for me when we were looking for some songs for the fifth album for MCA. He played this one and he was telling me about

being a writer on it and her husband. We listened to it and it just hit me! The melody and just everything about it. I just loved the way she did the demo on it and just loved the way she sung the song. Even the idea of the song ... here's this person that's been hurt by one relationship... and now that this guy's out of her life .. she's found a better relationship! So I just fell in love with it! It was a lot of fun to do the video because of the fact that

John Jorgenson John Richard Jorgenson (born July 6, 1956) is an American musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters, he is also proficient on the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel gu ...

made it a lot of fun, and John Millen, the director, made it a lot of fun to do too. We did it in

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
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... spent three days there... just had a big ole' time shooting it there in the French Quarter" The song charted for 20 weeks on the

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Hot Country Singles and Tracks Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sal ...

chart, reaching #3 during the week of November 23, 1991.

Chart positions

Year-end charts

References

{{authority control 1991 singles Patty Loveless songs Song recordings produced by Tony Brown (record producer) Country ballads Songs written by Deborah Allen Song recordings produced by Emory Gordy Jr. MCA Nashville Records singles Music videos directed by John Lloyd Miller Songs written by Rafe Van Hoy 1991 songs