| I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living | |
| Published: | December 14, 1949 Acuff-Rose Publications[1] |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys |
| B-Side: | May You Never Be Alone |
| Released: | January 1950 |
| Recorded: | August 30, 1949[2] |
| Studio: | Herzog Studio, Cincinnati |
| Genre: | Country & Western, Honky-tonk, Country blues |
| Label: | MGM |
| Prev Title: | My Bucket's Got a Hole in It |
| Prev Year: | 1949 |
| Next Title: | Long Gone Lonesome Blues |
| Next Year: | 1950 |
"I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living" is a song written by Hank Williams and released as his thirteenth single on MGM Records in January 1950. The song peaked at #5 on the Best Selling Retail Folk Records chart.[3]
The song expresses frustration and resentment towards a frigid woman who will not reciprocate the narrator's affection. The song, which alludes to "fussin' and fightin'" and contains the line "You ain't never bin known to be wrong, and I ain't never bin right," was likely inspired by Hank's tumultuous relationship with his wife at the time, Audrey Williams, with biographer Colin Escott musing, "Audrey's thoughts can only be guessed at as she heard the substance of their domestic disputes on the radio, particularly as only one side ever got aired." Williams recorded the song on August 30, 1949 at Herzog Studio in Cincinnati, Ohio (the same session that produced the B-side "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"). He is backed by members of the Pleasant Valley Boys – Zeke Turner (lead guitar), Jerry Byrd (steel guitar), and Louis Innis (rhythm guitar) – as well as Tommy Jackson (fiddle) and Ernie Newton (bass)."