Loretta Lynn's three-disc box set Honky Tonk Girl has the requisite rarities, but the real strength of the collection is how it offers all of her essential tracks -- from...
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Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline had much in common. They were both titans in country music, they were both produced by Owen Bradley, and they both were the preeminent female...
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Loretta Lynn's fourth album -- fifth if you count her duet record with Ernest Tubb from earlier in 1965 -- is a collection of Christian songs but, despite the title, the...
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Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline had much in common. They were both titans in country music, they were both produced by Owen Bradley, and they both were the preeminent female...
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Blue Eyed Kentucky Girl assembles ten tracks from Loretta Lynn's 1970s recordings for RCA, perhaps the singer's most creatively fertile period; highlights include "Rated...
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There is a soundtrack to the 1980 biopic Coal Miner's Daughter with Sissy Spacek singing Lynn's songs, but this isn't it. Instead, it's the original album that contained the...
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Unlike the song, autobiography and film of the same name, the album Coal Miner's Daughter isn't a reflection on Loretta Lynn's upbringing. Instead, it's merely a standard,...
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More first-rate country music from Lynn, particularly the title classic, "Don't Come Home A'Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)." This and You Ain't Woman Enough were...
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The title track was one of those defining songs for Loretta Lynn, not only one of the best but one of the most likeable country & western artists. She bats one home run...
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In the liner notes, Pete Axthelm cites "the range of her personality," and that range is in evidence here: reflective ("Coal Miner's Daughter"), feisty ("Fist City"),...
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She had a big hand in raising Nashville's perception of women as capable and competent (although the city still has a way to go). "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin'" and "You Ain't...
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Lynn shines throughout this live performance from 1978, which features some of her best-known material; the supporting musicians could have been a little better, but they...
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Hymns (MCA) 1/1/1970, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
Even Lynn's gospel album is chock full of attitude, as she starts off with "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven" ("but nobody wants to die"). Elsewhere it's a strong collection...
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A tribute to Lynn's single biggest influence, down to the spoken-word reminiscences at the end. But where Cline's versions of "Walkin' After Midnight," "I Fall to Pieces"...
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Owen Bradley's still producing her, and there are some fine songs (like Mark Germino's "Breakin' It," which Mindy McCready would cover in 1996), but Making Love From Memory...
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More religious songs, including a few from Lynn's own pen--"Mama Way," "Where I Learned To Pray" and "Who Says God Is Dead." This and Hymns at one time were packaged...
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Usually including a sage cross-section of the artist's work, the Country Music Hall of Fame Series from MCA provides some of the best introductory discs for the country...
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Where many country stars have taken rather disastrous detours down the gospel road in their careers, making albums that, in retrospect, sound inferior and out of place when...
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Too few songs written by Lynn (just two) and production by Jimmy Bowen, who never really liked the kind of down-home country in which Lynn specializes, makes this album...
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Who Was That Stranger is a mildly successful attempt at updating Lynn's sound to fit with the hard-country sound in vogue at the tail end of the 1980s. ~ Jason Ankeny, All...
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Considering the amount of conviction Loretta Lynn sings with here, no one has probably ever debated the singer about this album title. And buckets full of retro-kitsch...
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Lynn's albums often didn't have more than one single, and this is no exception, but the one single (the title track) is one of her greats. The rest of the album, an example...
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This is one budget-line release that rewards collectors as well as casual fans. Despite the shoddy packaging, the CD comprises Lynn's entire 1966 album You Ain't Woman...
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20 Greatest Hits contains the majority of Loretta Lynn's biggest hits, including "Don't Come Home a-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)," "Fist City," "Woman of the World...
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Like any record company worth their salt, MCA knows a good gimmick when they see it, and when the millennium came around, the 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium...
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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn is an excellent overview of the two singers' work together during the 1970s,...
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Loretta Lynn retired from the music business in the '90s, returning to her home in Nashville to take care of her husband, Oliver Lynn, as he was dying. As it happens, she...
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This 12-track addition to the 20th Century Masters series contains a few of Loretta Lynn's iconic hits -- "Fist City," "As Soon As I Hang Up the Phone," and "The Pill." The...
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This straightforward hits collection contains all 16 of Loretta Lynn's number one country hits according to Billboard, five of them duets with Conway Twitty, plus three...
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Between 1965 and 1972, Loretta Lynn released three LPs of inspirational music, Hymns (1965), Who Says God Is Dead! (1968), and God Bless America Again (1972), and each of...
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Over the years, there have been too many compilations of Conway Twitty "number one singles" to count. MCA Nashville/UTV's 2004 25 Number Ones is one of the better ones. Even...
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The coal miner's daughter carries the traditional country torch while managing to stay current; Loretta Lynn applies tried and true American heartache with some contemporary...
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MCA's 2005 release The Definitive Collection expands upon its 2002 collection, All Time Greatest Hits. The 2002 disc contained 22 tracks, including all 16 of Loretta Lynn's...
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