Good Hearted Woman is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...

, released on RCA Records

RCA Records

RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...

 in 1972 (see 1972 in country music

1972 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1972.-Events:* March — For the first time since 1967, Sonny James fails to hit the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Hot Country Singles Chart with a single release. His hit, "Only Love " stops at No. 2...

). Along with Ladies Love Outlaws, released later that same year, and Lonesome, On'ry and Mean

Lonesome, On'ry and Mean

Lonesome, On'ry and Mean is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Victor in 1973. It was, after Good Hearted Woman and Ladies Love Outlaws, the third in a series of albums which were to establish Jennings as one of the most prominent representatives of the country movement, reaching #8 on...

, (released early the following year), it was responsible for transforming Jennings' image into that of one of the representatives of the outlaw country

Outlaw country

Outlaw country is a subgenre of country music, most popular during the late 1960s and the 1970s , sometimes referred to as the outlaw movement or simply outlaw music...

 movement. The original liner notes

Liner notes

Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...

 by Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

 describe the first time Jennings and Nelson met, in Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona

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. The record reached #7 on the country charts, with the title track and "Sweet Dream Woman" becoming top ten singles. A live version of the title track (with Willie Nelson) became a #1 hit in 1976.

Track listing

1. "Good Hearted Woman
   Good Hearted Woman (song)
   "Good Hearted Woman" is the title track from Waylon Jennings' 1972 album. "Good Hearted Woman" was written by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson and performed by Waylon Jennings, the song spent eighteen weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles Chart, reaching a peak of #3 in March 1972...
   
   " (Jennings, Willie Nelson
   Willie Nelson
   Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
   
   ) – 3:00
2. "Same Old Lover Man" (Gordon Lightfoot
   Gordon Lightfoot
   Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s...
   
   ) – 2:48
3. "One of My Bad Habits" (Harlan Howard
   Harlan Howard
   Harlan Perry Howard was a prolific American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists...
   
   ) – 2:14
4. "Willie and Laura Mae Jones" (Tony Joe White
   Tony Joe White
   Tony Joe White is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie"; "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970; and "Steamy Windows", a hit for Tina Turner in 1989...
   
   ) – 2:57
5. "It Should Be Easier Now" (Nelson) – 3:05
6. "Do No Good Woman" (Jennings) – 2:11
7. "Unsatisfied" (Shirl Milete) – 2:50
8. "I Knew You'd Be Leavin'" (Billy Ray Reynolds) – 2:43
9. "Sweet Dream Woman" (Chip Taylor
   Chip Taylor
   James Wesley Voight , better known by his stage name as Chip Taylor, is an American songwriter, who is noted for writing the songs "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing." He is the brother of actor Jon Voight and geologist Barry Voight...
   
   , Al Gordoni) – 2:59
10. "To Beat the Devil" (Kris Kristofferson
    Kris Kristofferson
    Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...
    
    ) – 4:04