Howard and her producer Owen Bradley waited to return to the studio until they found a better quality song, which would eventually be "Evil on Your Mind".

[5] Harlan Howard then composed "Evil on Your Mind",[6] which told the story of a wife who suspects her husband of cheating after he persuades her to take a trip with her sister so he can engage in an affair.

[1] Addie Moore of the music website Wide Open Country named it among her "five definitive songs" and wrote that the track "struck that fine balance between helpless heartache and righteous anger.

"[10] Writers Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann wrote in their book, Finding Their Voice: The History of Women in Country Music, that the song was an example of Jan's "uptempo" and "feisty female" recordings that exemplified her sixties decade singles.

It was distributed by the label as a seven-inch vinyl single and included a B-side: Jan's self-composed track "Crying for Love".

[13] It made its debut on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart on April 23, 1966 and spent a total of 20 weeks there.