In the 1960s, she returned to the top ten with "Second Fiddle (To an Old Guitar)" and continued to place singles on the country charts through 1978.

[2] Written by Larry Butler and Jan Crutchfield,[3] the song told the story of a woman to continuously comes back to a partner whom she knows does not work for her.

He produced Shepard in August 1970 at the Jack Clement Studio, located in Nashville, Tennessee.

[3] Billboard called the song "a clever rhythm ballad" and predicted that it would make the top 20 of their country chart.

[10] Billboard magazine named it one of its "recommended" songs in its listing of "Top Single Picks" in September 1977.

[7] It became her lowest-charting single on the US Billboard country songs chart up to that point, rising to number 76 in 1977.