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Loretta Lynn comes ‘Full Circle’ on first album in 10 years
Loretta Lynn comes ‘Full Circle’ on first album in 10 years On a cold February night, on the dark edge of downtown Nashville, blocks away from the city’s honky-tonk strip, 83-year-old Loretta Lynn looks out the window of her tour bus. It’s parked next to Municipal Auditorium, where red letters on the marquee announce a […]
GRAND OLE PARTY AS LORETTA LYNN MARKS 50 YEARS IN BIZ
By Alanna Nash, Special for USA TODAY Today’s country music worships the same youth god as rock and pop, but its audience holds reverence for Loretta Lynn, who celebrates her 50th anniversary as a recording artist this year. She first recorded I’m a Honky Tonk Girl for tiny Zero Records in 1960.”Do you believe that […]
‘COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER’ IS FITTING TRIBUTE TO LORETTA LYNN
By Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY Fifty years ago, a mother of four from coal country signed her first record deal and released a single that proudly proclaimed I’m a Honky Tonk Girl. On the dozen tracks in Coal Miner’s Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn (* * * out of four), some modern-day honky-tonk girls […]
LORETTA LYNN FEELS ‘GREAT,’ IS RECOVERING FROM FLU
By Caitlin R. King, Associated Press Writer – USA Today Country music legend Loretta Lynn is “feeling great” and planning a trip to her home in the Bahamas over the holidays, according to her daughter Patsy Lynn Russell. Reports have circulated on the Web about Lynn’s declining health after she canceled her four remaining shows […]
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