Love and Other Hard Times

Three singles from the album made the Hot Country Songs charts: "Operator, Operator", "I Wanna Hear It from You", and "You Should Have Been Gone by Now".[1]

Cash Box reviewed the album positively, stating that it was "another exhibition of his fine vocal range and his valuable songwriting ability."[2] Billboard also published a positive review of the album, which said that his "haunting and sincere voice is matched here by some of the best material he's recorded in recent years."[3]

Side 1

1. "I Wanna Hear It from You" (Nancy Montgomery, Rick Giles) - 3:18
2. "Room to Run" (Raven, Dave Powelson) - 2:59
3. "You Should Have Been Gone by Now" (Raven, Don Pfrimmer, Frank J. Myers) - 3:24
4. "Easy Time" (Raven, Powelson) - 3:10
5. "Changes" (Raven, Myers, Tanya Tucker) - 3:39

Side 2

1. "Operator, Operator" (Larry Willoughby, Janet Willoughby) - 3:04
2. "We Robbed Trains" (Raven) - 4:17
3. "The Song I Said I'd Never Write for You" (Raven, Myers, Powelson) - 3:57
4. "The Art of Getting By" (Myers, Steve Dean) - 3:24
5. "I'm Just Someone You Run From" (Raven, Doodle Owens) - 2:37

• Eddie Bayers - drums
• Barry Beckett - keyboards
• Dennis Burnside - keyboards, synthesizer
• Don Gant - background vocals
• Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
• David Innis - synthesizer
• Frank J. Myers - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Mark O'Connor - fiddle, mandolin
• Joe Osborn - bass guitar
• Eddy Raven - lead vocals
• James Stroud - drums
• Dennis Wilson - background vocals
• Paul Worley - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Reggie Young - electric guitar