LORETTA LYNN
Full Circle
Whispering Sea – Secret Love – Who’s Gonna
Miss Me? – Black Jack David – Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven – Always
On My Mind – Wine Into Water – In The Pines – Band Of Gold – Fist City –
I Never Will Marry – Everything It Takes – Lay Me Down
Miss Me? – Black Jack David – Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven – Always
On My Mind – Wine Into Water – In The Pines – Band Of Gold – Fist City –
I Never Will Marry – Everything It Takes – Lay Me Down
Wow, what a treat to hear ‘real’ country music. This is
not Loretta’s newest album, she cut this one in 2016, but I must say her
trip to the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, still under
the direction and tutorship of John Carter Cash, was a most wise
decision. The delightful son of Johnny and June Carter Cash, who came to
our old-time country music festival in LeMars, Iowa, in 2014 to honor
his mom and dad, and himself as well, was a little nervous with the
large crowd of all-rural folks, but he not only turned in a stupendous
performance on his own, he captured the hearts of everyone of those
rural Iowa folks. As I write this review, Loretta is in the hospital
suffering from a stroke. All of us in ‘rural’ America are praying for
her quick recovery. She’s 85 years old, and on this album her voice is
just as strong as it has ever been. By including such ‘oldies’ as
“Black Jack Davy” and “In The Pines” she is able to recapture every note
of what ‘real’ country music is all about. Stupendous! There are a
couple of Loretta’s originals on this album that are also incredibly
well done. “Who’s Gonna Miss Me?” and “Everybody Wants To Go To
Heaven” and she’s absolutely right in the second song, “nobody wants to
die.” How much more earthy and ‘true’ to the earth can any singular
artist get? It’s really what ‘country’ music is all about, and always
has been. Loretta Lynn is the last of the really really good ‘true’
country artists. It’s monumentally important that her legend, her
passion, her integrity, her courage, and her dignity, does not die with
her. So when she asks in a song she wrote, “Who’s Gonna Miss Me?” I can
truthfully say, every single fan of traditional ‘real’ country music
will miss her, and that’s in the hundreds of thousands. And, why
national television sees no need to do any kind of programming in this
area, catered to the baby-boomers of America, it puzzles me no end as to
where their minds must be. I want to review Loretta’s newest album, and
hopefully I’ll be able to do that in the near future, but right now, if
you are a passionate fan of ‘true’ country music, you certainly do need
this project in your collection. Even if you’re not sure who Loretta
Lynn is, perhaps you’re too young, she’s still among the very last of
those who managed to keep America’s rural music alive and well their
entire lifetime. Loretta let John Carter Cash have a lot of leeway in
the musicians that participated. I’ll mention a few names, those of you
in the know will also be aware of who they are and what they play:
Randy Scruggs; Ronnie McCroury; Jamie Hartford; Dennis Crouch; Sam Bush;
Roby Turner; Will Smith; Elvis Costello; and the incredible Willie
Nelson. Quite a line-up huh, and there’s lots more incredibly gifted
musicians on this recording. John Carter Cash produced with Chuck
Turner mixing and engineering (a job incredibly well done). Much
congratulations to John Carter Cash for his obvious love for not only
this kind of music, but Loretta Lynn herself. What a masterful work of
love. Of course I’m sending this along to the Rural Roots Music
Commission, but I’m sure Loretta would not be able to come to LeMars for
a CD of the Year award, simply because in that same time frame she is
very busy with a festival at her own Hurricane Ranch. Still one never
knows, country is where country is. Good job Loretta, keep it up.
not Loretta’s newest album, she cut this one in 2016, but I must say her
trip to the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, still under
the direction and tutorship of John Carter Cash, was a most wise
decision. The delightful son of Johnny and June Carter Cash, who came to
our old-time country music festival in LeMars, Iowa, in 2014 to honor
his mom and dad, and himself as well, was a little nervous with the
large crowd of all-rural folks, but he not only turned in a stupendous
performance on his own, he captured the hearts of everyone of those
rural Iowa folks. As I write this review, Loretta is in the hospital
suffering from a stroke. All of us in ‘rural’ America are praying for
her quick recovery. She’s 85 years old, and on this album her voice is
just as strong as it has ever been. By including such ‘oldies’ as
“Black Jack Davy” and “In The Pines” she is able to recapture every note
of what ‘real’ country music is all about. Stupendous! There are a
couple of Loretta’s originals on this album that are also incredibly
well done. “Who’s Gonna Miss Me?” and “Everybody Wants To Go To
Heaven” and she’s absolutely right in the second song, “nobody wants to
die.” How much more earthy and ‘true’ to the earth can any singular
artist get? It’s really what ‘country’ music is all about, and always
has been. Loretta Lynn is the last of the really really good ‘true’
country artists. It’s monumentally important that her legend, her
passion, her integrity, her courage, and her dignity, does not die with
her. So when she asks in a song she wrote, “Who’s Gonna Miss Me?” I can
truthfully say, every single fan of traditional ‘real’ country music
will miss her, and that’s in the hundreds of thousands. And, why
national television sees no need to do any kind of programming in this
area, catered to the baby-boomers of America, it puzzles me no end as to
where their minds must be. I want to review Loretta’s newest album, and
hopefully I’ll be able to do that in the near future, but right now, if
you are a passionate fan of ‘true’ country music, you certainly do need
this project in your collection. Even if you’re not sure who Loretta
Lynn is, perhaps you’re too young, she’s still among the very last of
those who managed to keep America’s rural music alive and well their
entire lifetime. Loretta let John Carter Cash have a lot of leeway in
the musicians that participated. I’ll mention a few names, those of you
in the know will also be aware of who they are and what they play:
Randy Scruggs; Ronnie McCroury; Jamie Hartford; Dennis Crouch; Sam Bush;
Roby Turner; Will Smith; Elvis Costello; and the incredible Willie
Nelson. Quite a line-up huh, and there’s lots more incredibly gifted
musicians on this recording. John Carter Cash produced with Chuck
Turner mixing and engineering (a job incredibly well done). Much
congratulations to John Carter Cash for his obvious love for not only
this kind of music, but Loretta Lynn herself. What a masterful work of
love. Of course I’m sending this along to the Rural Roots Music
Commission, but I’m sure Loretta would not be able to come to LeMars for
a CD of the Year award, simply because in that same time frame she is
very busy with a festival at her own Hurricane Ranch. Still one never
knows, country is where country is. Good job Loretta, keep it up.
RECORD REVIEW BY BOB EVERHART, President: National Traditional Country Music Assn., www.music-savers.com for Country Music News International