''Love Me Like You Used To'' is the sixteenth studio album 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

Tanya Tucker Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) is an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature int ...

, released in 1987. Continuing the success of her preceding comeback album '' Girls Like Me'', the album produced three Billboard Top Ten Country singles, with "If It Don't Come Easy" and the collaboration with Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet, "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" both peaking at #1, and the title track "Love Me Like You Used To" rising to #2. The album rose to #10 on the Country Albums chart.

Track listing

Personnel

*Tanya Tucker - lead vocals, backing vocals *

Eddie Bayers Eddie Bayers (born January 28, 1949) is an American session drummer who has played on 300 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for fourteen years, has three times won the Nashville Music ...

- drums *Kenny Bell - acoustic guitar * Paul Davis - vocals on "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" *Steve Gibson -

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*Mitch Humphries -

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*Dave Innis - synthesizer *Kenny Mims - electric guitar * Paul Overstreet - vocals on "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" *

James Stroud James Stroud is an American musician and record producer who works in pop, rock, R&B, soul, disco, and country music. He played with the Malaco Rhythm Section for Malaco Records. In the 1990s, he was the president of Giant Records (a subsidiar ...

- drums *Bob Wray -

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Chart performance

References

{{Authority control 1987 albums Capitol Records albums Tanya Tucker albums Albums produced by Jerry Crutchfield