"Lovin' All Night" is a song written and recorded by American

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artist

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. It was released in March 1992 as the first single from his album ''

Life Is Messy ''Life Is Messy'' is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Rodney Crowell, released in 1992 by Columbia Records. It peaked at number 30 on the Top Country Albums chart. The songs, " Lovin' All Night", " What Kind of Love", "It ...

''. The song peaked at number 10 on the ''

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chart.

Critical reception

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of ''

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'' described the song as "randy" and "celebrat nghis new sexual freedom" following his divorce from

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Chart performance

"Lovin' All Night" spent 20 weeks on

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, peaking at number 10. It was Crowell's final Top 10 hit on that chart.

Year-end charts

Patty Loveless version

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included a version of the song on her eighth album with Epic Records, ''

On Your Way Home ''On Your Way Home'' is the thirteenth studio album by American country music artist Patty Loveless. It was released in 2003 on Epic Records, the album produced only one Top 20 country single: a cover of Rodney Crowell's 1992 hit "Lovin' All Nig ...

'', her thirteenth album of original music overall. The single was released in 2003. It was the first single released from the album. According to Loveless "...On the Down From The Mountain tour last year (2002), a friend of mine, Rodney Crowell was out there with me. Rodney was hosting the show, and he would perform it. We were having the best time of our lives out there, and we were in

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and he asked me to come out and perform with him, and I couldn't refuse him. Later, when I was in the process of reviewing material for the new album, I remembered the night in Roanoke and I asked my producer if we could contract Rodney and include the song on the album. So, that's how it came about how I recorded "Lovin All Night".On Your Way Home, World Album Premiere Radio Special, Epic Records, Nashville, September 9th 2003

Chart performance

The song charted for 20 weeks on the

chart, reaching number 18 during the week of September 27, 2003.

References

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