"How Can I Unlove You" is an excellent
Joe South song that
Lynn Anderson made into a smash hit, and the album of the same name has several other high points as well. Her version of
Freddie Hart's "Easy Loving" is one of the sweetest ever made of that widely recorded song, and "All Day Sucker" is a welcome return to her mother,
Liz Anderson, for material (the song was a minor hit for
Liz in 1970). Producer
Glenn Sutton contributes his usual handful of originals, including "What's Made Milwaukee Famous," a previous hit for
Jerry Lee Lewis.
Anderson's renditions of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and "You've Got a Friend" are decent but forgettable cuts aimed at her pop listeners;
Sutton must have gotten a little sloppy on "You've Got a Friend," because studio chatter can be heard briefly in the middle of the song under
Anderson's vocal. A few of the album cuts make
How Can I Unlove You worthwhile, but the title track is the essential item and one of
Anderson's very best.