Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn

ASIN: B00004S4XP

Track Listings

1. We Need To Make More Memories Together

2. Until I Met You

3. God Bless The Children

4. Love Is The Foundation

5. Ships Still Come In

6. One Day", (Let's Take The Time)

7. Brand New Ray Of Sunshine

8. What Eyes You're Looking Through

9. You Make Me Want To Walk On Water

10. Jesus Rocks Me

Editorial Reviews
The Nashville Network
This CD and Video was mentioned on TNN during a live show with Loretta Lynn and sold approximately 2000 CD's. Then after Mooney's passing, Loretta did not pursue additional sales attemps. However we feel the time has now come to pursue this package. After I produced this CD & Video, I also had TV & Radio personality, Ralph Emery, to cut several commercials that I feel would bolster sales of this viable product.

Loretta Lynn Fans
Loretta's built in Fan Club base always shares in positive sales results based on past history response.

Loretta Lynn

Tracks:

Times Are Tough In Rock N' Roll
Don't Go Borrowin' Trouble
Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be A Woman
Rest Your Weary Mind
He Got No Heart
Mama's Prayers
Sunday Morning
What Do I Do
Down Girl
Gonna Be
Always Tomorrow

Amazon.com

Elizabeth Cook's cornbread-and-cracklings approach to modern country music isn't everybody's cup of homebrew. But her backwoods lineage is genuine: her daddy learned to play doghouse bass in a Georgia prison band, doing 11 years for running moonshine. And there are plucky moments--especially on "Sometimes It Takes Balls to Be a Woman," where she sounds like she could be the Coal Miner's Daughter's feminist grandkid. On this, Cook's fourth album, producer Rodney Crowell knows how to frame her as both authentic and hip, bringing alt-country prince Bobby Bare Jr. on board for the affecting mountain love song "Rest Your Weary Mind," and elsewhere imbuing her original shuffles and ballads with chickin'-pickin' guitars, languid fiddle solos, and even a jew's harp on the hoedown-ish "Times Are Tough in Rock 'n' Roll" ("All my feelings, all my fears/Were confirmed with Britney Spears.") There's a surprise around every corner--"He Got No Heart" is a sassy throwback to Wanda Jackson, while "Mama's Prayers" evokes the threadbare innocence of Iris DeMent, and "What Do I Do" finds Cook's twangy soprano leaping into the honky-tonk stratosphere. But get ready for her cover of the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning," which she dang near makes her own. Then again, that's something you might expect from a girl with an affinity for vintage cocktail dresses who still insists on baiting her own hook. --Alanna Nash

Customer Reviews:

how country music should be.......2007-07-08

As I listened to Elizabeth Cook's new album Balls, I wanted to open the window and scream, "Why doesn't country radio play her songs?" I love country music that sounds authentic, the kind that one has to search the internet to find. Cook's music definitely fits the bill. I really appreciated the blend of different old-time sounds: bluegrass, rockabilly and traditional country. Cooks seamlessly blends the three styles while giving it her own unique twist.

Balls is a stellar album from an undervalued singer. All eleven tracks are fantastic and make for great car-ride play. Not only does Cook possess a sweet soprano voice similar to Alison Krauss, but great songwriting ability as well. On the opening track, "Times are Tough in Rock n' Roll," a bluegrass-flavored tune, Cooks makes her disapproval with the current state of pop music known loudly and clearly. "Sometimes It Takes Balls to Be a Woman" is a rousing feminist anthem with a rockabilly sound. "He Got No Heart" blasts a lover with the searing line: "I'd shoot him down if I knew where to aim."

Perhaps one day country radio will wake up and discover Elizabeth Cook is the real deal: a traditional country singer with soul, and a songwriter with much to say.

country music.......2007-06-12

This is what country should sound like. Miss Cook has 3 cds now and every one is great. Why haven't I heard her on country music stations? She is far better than the majority of country "stars" today.

Back To Country Basics.......2007-05-30

I am a country music LOVER! I love everyone from Loretta to Gretchen but I have a new LOVE with Elizabeth Cook. This album is getting country back to its roots in the likes of Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette. If you love country music you will not be sorry with the BALLS album. GET SOME BALLS!!!

Cookin'.......2007-05-28

"Balls" is Cook's finest record to date. Following the excellent "This Side Of The Moon" with a collection of up-tempo shuffles, wry observances and heartfelt ballads, "Balls" delivers on all fronts. No need for EC to skim the surface of her rural upbringing by talking about "muddin'" and "hick towns" and all of the transparent Music Row nonsense that passes for Country music these days. Cook is the genuine article, and her songs ring simple and true.

"Rest Your Weary Mind" is a meditation on helping her man decompress after a hard day of Life. Sung as a duet with Bobby Bare, Jr., Cook's refrains provide soothing balm to Bare's laments. Conway and Loretta never did it any better.

"Down Girl" is a snaphot of a melancholy friend's marital woes, and the stark production and quiet mood give it a lullaby feel. Beautiful.

"Gonna Be" and "Times Are Tough In Rock and Roll" are clever, light-hearted romps through the pleasures and pains of being on "the ladder", but only a rung or two up, detailing life on the road and at home for an indie artist.

"Momma's Prayers" reveals a sentiment Hallmark only wishes they could put into words.

Backed by roots rock guitar ace (and husband) Tim Carroll and the cream of Nashville's roots session players including guitar masters Kenny Vaughan and Richard Bennett, Cook's vocals are sure and plaintive, sassy and seductive. Producer Rodney Crowel kept a light touch on the proceedings, allowing the songs and the players to meet at the point of "just enough" - nothing here sounds like a demo or a New Country polished cliche.

This kind of real music is out there, despite the major labels best efforts to ignore it (see "Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?"). If you are just getting hip to EC, check out all of her albums. Now that Rolling Stone, CBS Sunday Morning, AT&T Blue Room, and Dwight Yoakam are on board, it might be too late to say "I knew her when...", but Cook is that rare new friend that sounds like an old friend. Make yourself at home, put this record on.

Great album.......2007-05-10

My favorite country album in a long time - thoughtful, clever and intelligent lyrics.

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tried and true
I can't say enough ...
Jack White's homage to true Country Music
An album that is as brilliant as it is improbable
AWESOME

Van Lear Rose
Loretta Lynn
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001XASDA
Release Date: 2004-04-27

Tracks:

VAN LEAR ROSE
PORTLAND OREGON (DUET WITH JACK WHITE)
TROUBLE ON THE LINE
FAMILY TREE
HAVE MERCY
HIGH ON A MOUNTAIN TOP
LITTLE RED SHOES
GOD MAKES NO MISTAKES
WOMEN'S PRISON
THIS OLD HOUSE
MRS. LEROY BROWN
MISS BEING MRS.
STORY OF MY LIFE

Amazon.com

Garage-rock hero Jack White producing honky-tonk legend Loretta Lynn? And Lynn comparing him to renowned Nashville producer Owen Bradley? Yes, we all know the world is rapidly shrinking, but now we've seen everything. Most stunning of all--they nailed it. For the first time, Lynn has written all of an album's songs, and her lyrics are as cutting and incisive as ever. On the powerful, biting "Family Tree," she brings her babies to the home of her husband's mistress so that they can see the "woman that's burning down our family tree." Throughout she cunningly tackles tried-and-true honky-tonk themes of love gone bad, drinkin', cheatin', and murder. Lynn even offers a compelling slice of theological fatalism ("God Makes No Mistakes"). White's production--mostly stark and atmospheric--ranges from more-traditional country to straight-up White Stripes, with most tracks falling somewhere in between. White duets with Lynn on the rousing one-night-stand story "Portland, Oregon," but he does not need to sing to leave his personal stamp. At 70, Lynn seems thoroughly engaged and delighted; at times she delivers some of the most emotionally potent singing of her career. A decade earlier, Johnny Cash turned to rock and rap producer Rick Rubin, and the move resuscitated Cash's career. Now, Jack White has done the same for Loretta Lynn, another country legend whose music is simply too raw and honest for the contemporary country crowd. Van Lear Rose exceeds all expectations--a bold collaboration in which artists from two different musical universes forge a memorable work that neither could have created alone. --Marc Greilsamer

Album Description

Loretta Lynn "Van Lear Rose" Produced and Arranged by Jack White of the White Stripes

Customer Reviews:

tried and true.......2007-04-17

I can't really add to what's already said concerning this album, except to say that I think its an important album in one very important regard. Country music in the '80s started pulling away from their elder statesmen, in a most baffling and disrespectful manner. No other genre is this classless or callous. Every other genre of music embraces their pioneers and still includes them in their playlist. Country radio on the other has a severe case of ADD. This pass-the-black-hatism is still in full force today, as most country fans have never heard the Van Lear Rose album, even a track of it, on country stations.

Now having stated that, is this the greatest country album of all time...no. That's an scewed assesment since country has never been album oriented save for a scant few gems. This may well be Lynn's best album, but that's not a huge accomplishment by country standards, since country has always been a 'singles' oriented business, unless of course its a best of compilation. It is very much a Loretta Lynn album in that she is still capable of writing frankly about infidelity. Lynn was the first female to address the other woman in a cheating song and she does so here very poignantly in "Family Tree", where she takes her children to the house of the woman who is "sleeping" with her husband to let the children see the woman who's "burning down the family tree" and stating "I'm not here to fight...I wouldn't dirty my hands on trash like you". This isn't new territory for Lynn but it is a path that she blazed and quite frankly, she still the only one who seems to do it well (unfortunately for her, she's had first hand experience in these matters).

It's also important to make a distinction from this album and the last few works of Johnny Cash, with whom this effort is constantly compared. Cash's last efforts were not country albums, but Lynn's is every bit as country as anything she's ever recorded and save for a few thrashy guitar flourishes by Jack White, this effort would fit right along side of anyhting she's done. She's not a powerhouse vocalist anymore, but she represents herself very well and is not the aquired taste that Cash was on his last few albums.

The few poor reveiws this album will recieve here are the result of people not appreciating Lynn's style in the first place and those who wanted a White Stripes styled album. Again, Lynn didn't need to mine any new territory since she still owns the territory and has no equal in an era of pefabricated paper dolls and black hats. This is a great country album that exhalts country music, a genre which deserves no credit for this album's existance.

I can't say enough ..........2007-01-12

I can't say enough good things about this album. Up front, I'm a huge Jack White fan and his hand in it alone made me want to buy it. I grew up on Loretta and like most mountain girls "Coal Miners Daughter" was a song I began singing in the shower when I was five. So I was eager to see what the partnership produced.

I waited on this for a year (after hearing it was in the works). Lynn is as magical as always and that she chose to go in such a different direction, especially at her age (my grandfather is sorely disappointed) and at this point in her career was a brave move. But it worked. I don't do album reviews, and I'm no music guru. But I like what I like. White Stripes fans will love the album. So will country music fans who can appreciate the new twist.

Jack White's homage to true Country Music.......2007-01-02

Jack White appreciates classic country and bluegrass music. This is evident with his involvement in Goober and the Peas, contibuting to the Cold Mountain soundtrack, and even the sounds in his band, the White Stripes, particularly his latest album, Get Behind Me, Satan. Jack White also loves his own sound but not in a narcissistic way. In my opinion, this album has nothing to do with Loretta Lynn, specifically. Jack White wanted to give back to classic country and bring it back to modern radio for a whole new audience. He knew he could not do this alone, however. If he came out with a classic country sounding album, he could possibly alienate his rock fans, and the country music listening community would not respect it, nor him. Thus, Loretta Lynn comes into the picture. She is his muse because she IS classic country. From her upbringing to who she is today, she epitomizes all that classic country makes itself to be. She is simple, humble, earnest, and genuine, a true classy country woman in every way (he showcases her personality and spirit in her "story" Little Red Shoes).

Now in terms of classic country, the songs Loretta Lynn wrote are not groundbreaking. She covers a myriad of situations that have been done before by other artists, as well as herself, but don't let that stop you from taking a listen. Though the songs may seem cliche, that's what Jack White wanted. He wanted her to write from her country heart her country life experiences in a heartfelt, simple, and honest way, encompassing the aura of classic country. He took it upon himself to give it his own personal style to give it a modern flair, and he created an album that takes the listener on an emotional journey, from foot stomping hand clapping joy to lamentful heart-wrenching sadness. He did an excellent job capturing the true spirit of Loretta Lynn and re-introducing classic country to an audience who isn't familiar with it.

An album that is as brilliant as it is improbable.......2006-08-31

Who'd a thunk it? Loretta Lynn, the grande dame of country music, retired for most of a decade with only a single mediocre album to show for her return to the business after her husband's death, teaming with punk-garage genius Jack White to produce the best album of her career. I only recently discovered this beauty of a disc. I had Lynn's MCA collection ALL TIME GREATEST HITS, which contained about all of the Loretta Lynn I ever expected to own. But going on a White Stripes binge lately it suddenly inspired me to sample the album I remembered he had done with Lynn. It simply bowled me over.

Before country outsider Willie Nelson started attempting to record true albums in the seventies, the rule in country music had been to produce a couple hit singles and then surround them with rapidly recorded schlock, figuring that fans would buy the albums for the two or three gems, ignoring the rest. As a result, there are very, very few great or even very good country albums before the seventies and eighties. Almost every country artist (George Jones is one of the few exceptions) is best collected via the hits anthology since their albums mainly consisted of filler. Jack White, however, comes from a different background. In indie rock the tendency is to make every song count and there are scores of albums on which all or nearly all of the cuts on a disc are first rate or at least interesting.

What is amazing here is that Lynn excels at producing an entire album of original material. On no other album has she ever contributed so many original songs. Jack White, on the other hand, seamlessly adjusts to country. This is no surprise, since he seems to possess and almost limitless musical vocabulary. Here he keeps the production simple and to the point, always keeping Loretta's voice clearly at the center of things. His guitar playing calls less attention to itself than on White Stripes recordings but instead uses it to brilliantly and tastefully enhance every song.

The most surprising thing about the album is how strong the songs are. Very, very few performers continue to write new material as they approach seventy. Ray Charles for the last couple of decades of his life merely recycled the hits of his creative decades, producing little or no new material. One would hardly have blamed Loretta Lynn if her comeback had consisted merely of performing the huge number of hits from her catalog. Instead, she has created a set of songs that stand comparison to anything she has created. The title track is simply brilliant, and there are a string of absolutely stellar cuts from beginning to end. "Family Tree," "High on a Mountain Top," "God Makes No Mistakes," and "Trouble on the Line" are all vintage Loretta Lynn. "Miss Being Mrs." is almost unbearably personal, as she sings about her departed husband. Country songs are stuffed to overflowing with spouses leaving spouses, but knowing that her husband left her by dying brings a deep poignancy to this song. She is absolutely brilliant in the ultra feisty number "Mrs. Leroy Brown," all the way down to the end when she suddenly says, "Come on Jack, let's get out of here." But the highlight of the album for me is unquestionably "Portland Oregon," which tells of two people meeting in a bar. Though Loretta Lynn is listed as the writer of the song, it is so thoroughly embellished with classic Jack White touches he should get co-credit. This is the only song where the two switch vocals and the results are just exquisite. Who would have thought a 30-year-old punk rocker and the 70-year-old grandmother could kick it like this? White's guitar work is brilliant, while Lynn's lyrics are simply delightful, as well as being delightfully inscrutable. The very first words of the song are:

Well Portland Oregon and sloe gin fizz
If that ain't love then tell me what is

The rest of the song tells of a man and woman meeting in a bar for a night of passion, driven by great guitar, wonderful vocals, and great lyrics. For instance, Loretta sings:

Well sloe gin fizz works might fast
When you drink it by the pitcher and not by the glass

Some might wonder how strong Loretta Lynn's voice is. After all, she was nearly 70 when this was recorded. She clearly isn't as strong a singer as she was in the sixties, and her age shows when she tries to sustain a note for any length of time, but all in all her voice is amazingly strong. If you compare her work here to any of Johnny Cash's work with Rick Rubin, she is in vastly better voice than Cash was. Cash adjusted wonderfully to aging, making the changes to his voice work wonderfully with his material. He clearly was a different kind of singer than he was in the rest of his career. Loretta Lynn, on the other hand, is pretty much the same singer she always was and stylistically has had to make no concessions to age.

This album has to go down as one of the great and unexpected delights in the history of music. I'm hoping the two of them can get together for an encore. If we don't, at least we got this one brilliant collaboration.

AWESOME.......2006-07-16

Loretta Lynn rocks. Awesome cd. "Portland Oregon" is one of the best songs I have heard in a long, long, time. No one says "Oregon" like Loretta. Rock on, Loretta!

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Classic Country: Great Duets
Missing Some Major Duets!!

Classic Country: Great Duets
Johnny Cash & June Carter , Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn , Bill Anderson & Jan Howard , Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton , and David Frizzell & Shelly West
Manufacturer: Time Life Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006419N2
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Tracks:

Jackson -- Johnny Cash with June Carter
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man -- Loretta Lynn with Conway Twitty
Golden Ring -- George Jones with Tammy Wynette
Don't Let Me Cross Over -- Carl Butler and Pearl Butler
Holding On to Nothin' -- Porter Wagoner with Dolly Parton
Loose Talk -- Buck Owens with Rose Maddox
For Loving You -- Bill Anderson with Jan Howard
We've Got Tonight -- Kenny Rogers with Sheena Easton
You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma -- David Frizzell with Shelly West
Suspicious Minds -- Waylon Jennings with Jessi Colter
My Elusive Dreams -- David Houston with Tammy Wynette
A Place to Fall Apart -- Merle Haggard with Janie Fricke
Feelin's -- Conway Twitty with Loretta Lynn
Islands in the Stream -- Kenny Rogers with Dolly Parton
You and I -- Eddie Rabbitt with Crystal gayle
Meet Me in Montana -- Marie Osmond with Dan Seals
If I Were A Carpenter -- Johnny Cash with June Carter Cash
We're Gonna Hold On -- George Jones with Tammy Wynette
I Will Always Love You -- Dolly Parton with Vince Gill
We Believe in Happy Endings -- Earl thomas Conley with Emmylou Harris

Album Description

Johnny & June. George & Tammy. Kenny & Dolly. Conway & Loretta. Individually they're stars, but together these artists are stellar. These unforgettable pairings of distinctive voices produced No. 1 chart toppers in the '60s, '70s and '80s—and only the biggest hits made it on Classic Country: Great Duets.

Customer Reviews:

Classic Country: Great Duets.......2007-01-22

This is one of the best I've heard if you like country & duets... Absolutely wonderful!

Missing Some Major Duets!! .......2005-07-26

These tracks are all excellent but frankly several major country duets are not here!! Where on earth are Kenny Rogers and Dottie West?? Instead we get Rogers with Sheena Easton and the Rogers/Easton combo makes it almost entirely a pop recording and it should not be on this package. Buck Owens & Rose Maddox have a track but where is Buck with his far more famous duet partner Susan Raye? The Merle Haggard - Janie Fricke track should not have been included since she really only just sings harmony on the record. Why aren't Jimmy Wakely & Margaret Whiting who started the male/female star duet craze in 1949 with Slipping Around here or Kitty Wells & Red Foley, the first superstar duet? And where are Ferlin Husky & Jean Shepard, Jack Greene & Jeannie Seely, David Houston & Barbara Mandrell, Bobby Bare & Skeeter Davis, Roy Drusky & Priscilla Mitchell, Don Gibson & Dottie West, Johnny Duncan & Janie Fricke, to name just a few of the famous country duos of yore. Instead we have too many tracks with the same artists here. It's a very good package but it should have been a great and classic one.

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The Definitive collection =Loretta Lynn
CD arrived fast!
Grade-A, classic, killer country
The best single CD of Loretta's hits
Best single disc Lynn set now available, but not definitive

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ASIN: B0009NZ3QY
Release Date: 2005-06-07

Tracks:

Wine, Women And Song
Happy Birthday
Blue Kentucky Girl
You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)
Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Fist City
You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out On Me)
Woman Of The World (Leave My World Alone)
Coal Miner's Daughter
After The Fire Is Gone
You're Looking At Country
Lead Me On
One's On The Way
Rated 'X'
The Pill
Love Is The Foundation
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone
Trouble In Paradise
When The Tingle Becomes A Chill
Feelins'
Out Of My Head And Back In My Bed
Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know Wht He's Missin' Tonight)
She's Got You
I Can't Feel You Anymore

Customer Reviews:

The Definitive collection =Loretta Lynn.......2007-01-20

Did not care for the songs. All songs were about cheating on husband or wife and very depessing. Would not reccommend this to any one.

CD arrived fast!.......2006-07-06

This seller sent CD very quickly and it was new as described. Wish I liked the music more than it turns out that I do but it was worth the experiment into C&W. Great seller!

Grade-A, classic, killer country.......2005-08-20

A fine, 25-song best-of that overlaps with other Loretta collections (including a few duets with Conway Twitty...) "Definitive" is definitely a relative term, here, especially considering how thorough and gratifying the old, 4-CD "Honky Tonk Girl" box set has proven over the years. Still, this is a great introduction to her work, and dips into some of her later work from 1975-onwards, stuff that doesn't readily come to mind when you're thinking of Loretta's glory years, but that still holds up nicely today. They seem to have omitted her novelty hit, "Your Squaw Is On The Warpath" (presumably because of modern-day PC concerns...) but the rest of the songs on here are of at least equal calibre to that old chestnut. Other Loretta best-ofs may serve you equally well, but this disc is unquestionably first-class.

The best single CD of Loretta's hits.......2005-07-14

Note - this compilation is a re-issue and re-packaging of an earlier compilation (All-time greatest hits) with three additional tracks - Blue Kentucky girl, You're looking at country and The pill. This compilation has a higher price so if you're choosing between the two, your decision will be based on the value you place on those three tracks.

At the start of the sixties, female singers had a really hard tine getting noticed, except Patsy Cline. Loretta (along with Dolly and Tammy) helped to change this forever, by recording songs that appealed to women as well as men. While men (including myself) can sometimes be satisfied with women singing love songs, Loretta recorded some hard-hitting songs about life and its struggles.

Examples of her diverse themes include her heritage (Coal miners' daughter), fending off other women (You ain't woman enough, Woman of the world, Fist city), everyday life (One's on the way) and the evil of drinking too much (Don't come home a-drinking). All these songs can be found on this collection. Of course, she sings love songs too and plenty of those are included on this set, although these are not what Loretta is best remembered for. Among the love songs here is a cover of She's got you, a Patsy Cline song that Loretta also had a huge country hit with.

Her duets with Conway Twitty were an important feature of her career. Five are included here - After the fire is gone, Lead me on, As soon as I hang up the phone, Louisiana woman Mississippi man and Feelins'.

Notwithstanding Van Lear Rose, her incredible comeback album in 2004, Loretta's reputation ultimately rests on the music that she recorded in the sixties and seventies. 25 tracks are nowhere near comprehensive (notable omissions include Your squaw is on the warpath, Hey Loretta and They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore) but this single CD will be enough for most people, particularly those of you whose introduction to Loretta's music was via that comeback album.

If you only want a single CD of Loretta's sixties and seventies music, make it this one or All-time greatest hits. Committed fans may prefer the boxed set (Honky tonk girl).

Best single disc Lynn set now available, but not definitive.......2005-06-11

Currently experiencing a career resurgence thanks to her Grammy-winning album Van Lear Rose, Loretta Lynn established herself as one of country music's greatest artists during her twenty-plus years on Decca/MCA. Lynn's early records at Decca like "Wine, Women, And Song" and "Blue Kentucky Girl" were very much in the traditional female country vein and had a subservient theme. 1965's "You Ain't Woman Enough" and 1966's "Don't Come Home A Drinkin'" drastically altered that doormat persona and were also the first hits Lynn wrote at Decca. From then on, Lynn would become a voice and role model for women everywhere.

From 1967 - 1971, Lynn was at her commercial and artistic peak. She wrote most of her hits during this period and no subject appears to have been off-limits. "Fist City" finds Lynn willing to get physical to keep her man while "Rated X" discusses the stigma placed on divorced on women. "One's On The Way" humorously poked at the drudgeries of being a housewife with a lot of kids. Country pride also played a prominent role in Lynn's music during this era with "You're Looking At Country" and"Coal Miner's Daughter," which would become Lynn's signature song.

By 1972, Lynn stopped writing her own material (due to a bad publishing deal with the Wilburn Brothers). Her musical stylings had expanded, with "Trouble In Paradise" finding Lynn experimenting with rock (and sounding extremely ill at ease). Pop-flavored ballads like "When The Tingle Becomes A Chill" and "Somebody Somewhere" also became more common as Lynn's distinctive sound became watered down during the mid-to-late 1970s (when her recording career began to wind down), yet all retain at least a modicum of charm.

For this Definitive volume, Universal Music merely added three recordings to Lynn's twenty-two track All-Time Greatest Hits (2002) cd: ""Blue Kentucky Girl," "You're Looking At Country," and "The Pill." It leaves off such truly definitive recordings as Lynn's first hit "Honky Tonk Girl" (1960, for the Zero label), her first Decca hit "Success" (1962) and her last top-ten hit, "I Lie," as well as such fan favorites as "To Make A Man (Feel Like A Man), "Home," and "Red, White, and Blue" which aren't currently available on cd. Instead, we get five duet chart-toppers with Conway Twitty that were already included on their Definitive set in April. While this is the best single disc Lynn set available, you really need to purchase her box set Honky Tonk Girl (1994) to get a true feel for her greatness.

1. Wine Women & Song
2. Happy Birthday
3. Blue Kentucky Girl
4. You Ain't Woman Enough
5. Don't Come Home A Drinkin'
6. Fist City
7. You've Just Stepped In
8. Woman Of The World
9. Coal Miner's Daughter
10. After The Fire Is Gone (with Conway Twitty)
11. You're Looking At Country
12. Lead Me On (with Conway Twitty)
13. One's On The Way
14. Rated X
15. The Pill
16. Love Is The Foundation
17. Louisiana Woman, Mississipi Man (with Conway Twitty)
18. As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone (with Conway Twitty)
19. Trouble In Paradise
20. When The Tingle Becomes A Chill
21. Feelins' (with Conway Twitty)
22. Out Of My Head And Back In My Bed
23. Somebody Somewhere
24. She's Got You
25. I Can't Feel You Anymore

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Three best voices in country ( plus Patsy Cline)
The Voices of Angels!
THE TRUE COUNTRY TREAT!.
Brilliant rivals team up for classic album
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Honky Tonk Angels
Dolly Parton , Loretta Lynn , and Tammy Wynette
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ASIN: B0000028ZK
Release Date: 1993-11-02

Tracks:

It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Put It Off Until Tomorrow
Silver Threads And Golden Needles
Please Help Me I'm Falling (In Love With You)
Sittin' On The Front Porch Swing
Wings Of A Dove
I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
Wouldn't It Be Great
That's The Way It Could Have Been
Let Her Fly
Lovesick Blues
I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven

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Nearly 30 years after an unknown singer made the album Dolly Parton Sings Country Oldies, which for all practical purposes was a Kitty Wells record, Parton joined with Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette to revive the old-time, traditional female country sound, even hauling Miss Kitty along for a sparkling reprise of "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," the song that made Wells a star. This particular trio feels more at home with campy recitations than with hip, new songs, and doesn't dare get as harmonically ambitious as the one Parton enjoys with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt on Trio and Trio II. But as the queens of third-generation country, after Wells and Patsy Cline, they create a presence all their own, Lynn's plaintive urgency meeting Wynette's relaxed sensuality in the middle, and Parton mediating it all. No wonder Cline "drops by" for another round of "Lovesick Blues." Too much fun! --Alanna Nash

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Three best voices in country ( plus Patsy Cline).......2004-12-16

The three top female singers in country just happen to have started in the 60's, although today, remain the three most influential careers of the genre. The late Tammy Wynette soars here with her vocal talents still intact, especially with "Silver Threads And Golden Needles". Loretta Lynn is classic country and outshines everyone on "Please Help Me I'm Falling". Kitty Wells joins the trio for her trademark, "It Wasn't God Who Made Hony Tonk Angels", and the great Patsy Cline joins the ladies for "Lovesick Blues". Dolly's incredible vocals as well as writing talents are displayed on "Sitting On The Front Porch Swing" and "Let Her Fly". There's not a bad cut on the whole disc. With all due repect to the late Davis Sisters, the three performing "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" is pure country magic. I only wish CBS records would release a follow up, I have read many more songs were recorded. Fans of the late Tammy Wynette would be "in heaven" to hear more from 'The First Lady Of Country Music'. If you enjoy original, classic country, this is a must !

The Voices of Angels!.......2004-11-19

Put this cd on and close your eyes, and you're in Pure Country Land. Beautiful, tuneful soulful sounds that country fans can't get enough of....Play this when you're glad, when you're sad, when you're up, when you're down, when you're in love with life and when you think life has dealt you a cruel blow. Just get it and play it!

THE TRUE COUNTRY TREAT!........2004-01-07

This is one of the best CDs. Having 3 Legends team up. WOW!

Brilliant rivals team up for classic album.......2003-10-02

When this album was released, I wondered if the title should have been titled Custer's last stand. After all, none of these wonderful ladies were getting much airplay on American country radio and it seemed that their careers were finished. This album sold surprisingly well considering the lack of airplay. As things turned out, this album was the last major success in Tammy's career - she only recorded one more album (appropriately, a set of duets with George Jones) before her death. Loretta eventually had another major success with her 2004 album, Van Lear Rose. Following a quiet period in the mid nineties during which time her albums sold poorly, Dolly has been consistently successful with several successful albums. So my pessimism was (thankfully) unjustified.

This album is firmly rooted in traditional country, with all three having their share of lead vocals. Most of the songs are country classics. It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels was the song that made Kitty Wells a major country star of the fifties. Kitty joins Dolly, Tammy and Loretta on this rendition.

Put it off until tomorrow was written by Dolly in the sixties. It was a big country hit for Bill Phillips back then and was again a big hit when the Kendalls revived it in the early eighties. Dolly has recorded it several times, solo and with others.

Silver threads and golden needles was first recorded by Wanda Jackson but was a top twenty pop hit in America for the Springfields (with Dusty as lead singer) and was later revived by Linda Ronstadt.

Please help me I'm falling is a cover of the Hank Locklin classic, though Janie Fricke's version of this song is even better. Wings of a dove was a huge American hit for Ferlin Husky. I forgot more than you'll ever know launched the career of Skeeter Davis, although she was then part of the Davis sisters.

Wouldn't it be great is a Loretta Lynn song that she had previously recorded on her own. That's the way it could have been was recorded in the seventies by Tammy - it was also recorded as a duet by Kenny Rogers and Dottie West.

Lovesick blues is the old classic first popularised by Hank Williams (though his version was a cover). Patsy Cline also covered it and she makes a posthumous guest appearance on this track thanks to the wonders of technology.

I dreamed of a hillbilly heaven is an old Tex Ritter song, adapted for the time it was recorded. There are just two songs that were new to me when I bought this - Sitting on a front porch swing and Let her fly and they are both brilliant.

Any fans of traditional country in general or any of the three singers in particular will love this album.

The Three Best Singers I have ever heard.......2002-12-19

The songs these ladies put out on this c-d was wonderful to hear. I have grew up listen to these women and everytime I hear them they sounded great, but this c-d was one of the greatest with those ladies together. I loved everyone of their songs. Even thou Tammy is in a better place and she is now sanging with the Country Angels, like Pasty Cline. We still have our two Country Angels here. God Bless Loretta and Dolly.

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Not what I thought
Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Sweet songs
It just lifts your spirit

Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Patsy Cline , and Loretta Lynn
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ASIN: B000002QEY
Release Date: 1995-01-01

Tracks:

Just A Closer Walk With Thee
How Great Thou Art
I'd Rather Have Jesus
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Life's Railway To Heaven
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When I Hear My Children Pray
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Customer Reviews:

Not what I thought.......2007-05-13

I thought I was getting a CD with equal songs by Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. Unfortunately, it was mostly Loretta Lynn, which is fine, but not what I thought.

Just a Closer Walk with Thee.......2006-03-11

I love this CD and have told many people about it. Patsy and Loretta are wonderful and the songs are great.
By the way the service was great all so.

Just a Closer Walk with Thee.......2005-08-17

I really like this CD, as it has a lot of the old Christian songs on it.

Sweet songs.......2002-12-12

I love to hear these two sing oldies...it is interesting to hear them sing gospel..so refreshing.

It just lifts your spirit.......1999-11-18

When I was growing up, we listened to Country. Now as an adult, and life is getting me down, I sit and listen to this Cd and I feel loved and happy with the world. The contentment I get into after listening to this Cd reaches deep in-side of me and lifts my spirit closer to God, who takes away all the bad feelings I just had.

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A Welcome Surprise
I Want a Mullet Mom!!!!
Billy Ray strikes again!!
Excellent CD! Great Music From Billy Ray Cyrus
Be Someone Else's Joe

Wanna Be Your Joe
Billy Ray Cyrus
Manufacturer: New Door Records
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ASIN: B000FOQ1F4
Release Date: 2006-07-18

Tracks:

Wanna Be Your Joe
I Want My Mullet Back
The Man (Tribute To Dale Earnhardt)
I Wouldn't Be Me
What About Us
Country Music Has The Blues (featuring George Jones, Loretta Lynn)
The Freebird Fell
I Wonder
Lonely Wins
How've Ya Been
Ole What's Her Name
Hey Daddy
Stand (featuring Miley Cyrus)
Bonus Track: A Pain In The Gas

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No matter how you feel about the pride of Flatwoods, Kentucky, you've got to give him credit for sheer grit. An embarrassment to Nashville after his Chippendalesish (and hugely popular) line-dancing anthem "Achy Breaky Heart" (1992), the mullet-wearing Billy Ray Cyrus went on to make credible music (1993's mostly ignored It Won't Be the Last) before segueing into acting (Doc, Hannah Montana). Yet on Wanna Be Your Joe, an album he largely wrote or co-wrote, Cyrus doesn't do himself many favors. The quality of writing never reaches the upper tiers, and several of the songs come across as rough demos instead of fully produced cuts. His slim baritone, once gravelly and testosterone-pumped, is dry as a stump, and the hunger and passion that drove his earlier recordings also seems to slumber, whether he's paying tribute to his heroes (Dale Earnhardt, Ronnie Van Zant) or pondering lost loves. Cyrus shows his sense of humor in referencing his former hairstyle ("I Want My Mullet Back," a rootsy rock excursion), and hits all the working-class touchstones (the loving husband/father of the promising title cut, the blue-collar protest of exorbitant fuel costs of "A Pain in the Gas"). But the album never really catches fire until he brings on the guests: George Jones and Loretta Lynn for the down-home "Country Music Has the Blues" and daughter Miley for "Stand." Just as in the plots of his TV series, on Wanna Be Your Joe, friends and family save the day. --Alanna Nash

Album Description

Everyone knows the name of the colossal single from Billy Ray Cyrus' record-breaking 1992 album "Some Gave All" - the infamous "Achy Breaky Heart" (which also inspired a line dance craze). And since then, Billy Ray has enjoyed great success as not only as a country music star but as a successful songwriter and actor.

In Billy's two decades long career he has achieved: • 3 #1 singles and 6 Top 10 singles in addition to the platinum and gold albums • 2 AMA awards, 1 CMA award • 6 TNN/Music City News awards • 2 MovieGuide Awards (for "Doc") • He STILL holds the record for 17 weeks at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart for "Some Gave All" (the longest time this was held by a debut artist). • Has been recognized by the Kennedy Center Honors • Received the Bob Hope Congressional Medal of Honor Society Entertainer's Award • Country Radio Broadcaster's Artist Humanitarian Award • Been inducted into the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Hall of Fame

As an artist, Billy Ray Cyrus continues to create music that is close to his heart… music that rocks, can touch one's emotions, songs that are reverent and some even satirical, and all styles are evident on his CD debut release on New Door Records, "Wanna Be Your Joe."

Customer Reviews:

A Welcome Surprise.......2007-01-22

I personally never liked "Achy Breaky Heart" and because of that never listened to Billy Ray Cyrus. With that being said, Last June I and my Family attended the CMA in Nasville, TN and got to see and hear Billy Ray Cyrus live and I got to tell you he was great. Ed King from Lynyrd Skynyrd was on lead guitar and it just made it better. My kids watch Hanna Montana on T.V. and went crazy when Billy Ray took the stage, I never picked up that he was on the show!
The above CD is filled with great songs that are performed well. A welcome surprise.
I gave it a chance and Im glad I did!!!

I Want a Mullet Mom!!!!.......2007-01-07

Well, long story short, I've been a fan of Billy Ray for years, and through the Disney channel, I learned that he was at it again with "Wanna Be Your Joe." As soon as I found out, I purchased the album, and have not regretted it yet! One of the more well rounded albums, it has plenty of ballads, and plenty of rock. Overall my 3 personal favorites are "I Want My Mullet Back," "Country Music Has the Blues" with George Jones and Loretta Lynn, and "Stand" which features his daughter Miley. If you're a fan of good music, then you need to get this album! He sounds as good as he did way back when his heart was achy and breaky!

Billy Ray strikes again!!.......2006-11-03

A very kind albun with lovely ballads and powerful rocks songs. One of the best plays in her career... the special guests make it a really amazing play with such different style touch. Take it!!!

Excellent CD! Great Music From Billy Ray Cyrus.......2006-09-10

I was recently introduced to the music of Billy Ray Cyrus when a friend suggested I would like his CD "The Other Side". Like most of us who have hit middle age I remember when "Achy Breaky Heart" was a huge hit but I hadn't heard much Billy Ray music since then. I enjoyed "The Other Side" very much and because of that I decided to buy "Wanna Be Your Joe" and am very glad I did.

After listening to "Wanna Be Your Joe" a few times I have permanently joined the ranks of Billy Ray Cyrus fans. The CD has a great mix of songs and defiantly has something for everyone. If you like traditional Country you will find it in "Country Music Has The Blues". If you like Rock you will find it in "I Want My Mullet Back" which is a song that looks back on simpler times.

My other favorite songs on the CD are "Wanna Be Your Joe", "Hey Daddy", and the moving "Stand" where Billy Ray urges us all to stand up for what we believe in.

Simply put, you don't have to be a fan of Country music to enjoy this CD. If you are looking for good, well done, sincere music pick up a copy of "Wanna Be Your Joe". It's a wonderful effort from Billy Ray Cyrus.

Be Someone Else's Joe.......2006-09-09

So, Billy Ray Cyrus wants to be your `Joe.' Yes, that Billy Ray Cyrus, the "Achy-Breaky Heart" guy. Quite honestly, it's tough to forgive him for that incredibly stupid song, but somebody bought all those records, and that is why Billy Ray is still with us. The good news is that there is nothing here as blatantly sophomoric as that novelty line-dance favorite. The bad news is that there isn't much to cause me to rethink my basic impression. "Wanna Be Your Joe" is a likeable enough ballad about an everyday guy who aspires to true love, and it works in its own simple way, but certainly not enough to impress or inspire new fans. From there, though, things get predictable, both musically and thematically. Goofy novelty numbers make it nearly impossible to take this album seriously, and the titles say it all; "I Want My Mullet Back," "Ole What's Her Name" and "A Pain in the Gas" are even less original than their titles may suggest. "I Couldn't Be Me" is so blatantly a re-write of "Help Me Make It Through the Night" that I'd expect a lawsuit from Kris Kristofferson. Incredibly, not even George Jones and Tammy Wynette can add gravitas to the whiny, misinformed "Country Music Has the Blues." Doesn't Billy Ray recognize the irony of him singing about how country music has changed for the worse? Billy, you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
For bad measure, the balance of the album is dedicated to good-ol'-boy posturing and `new country' schlock. Worst of all are two morbid shout-outs to dead legends, including the sentimental swill of "The Man" (dedicated to NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt) and "The Freebird Fell," a tasteless tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd. On the not-so-bad side is "How've Ya Been," a steel-guitar ballad (that remarkably suggests George Harrison) concerning regret, and "Hey Daddy" which pretty much covers the same ground. Other than that, there's not much left to sink in. I've given "Wanna Be Your Joe" three listens, and that's enough. Actually, it was too much; any more would hurt my achy-breaky brain. C Tom Ryan

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Conway Twitty
Country's Finest
The Greatest Duo in Country Music.
WOOOOO OOOOOHHHHOOOO ABOUT TIME!!!!
Conway & Loretta - Quality Guaranteed

The Definitive Collection
Conway Twitty , and Loretta Lynn
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Release Date: 2005-04-19

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After the Fire Is Gone
Don't Tell Me You're Sorry
Lead Me On
You're the Reason (I Don't Sleep at Night)
Easy Loving
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
You Lay So Easy on My Mind
As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone
Spiders and Snakes
Feelins'
Back Home Again
Letter
I Can't Love You Enough
Hey, Good Lookin'
From Seven Till Ten
You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly
How High Can You Build a Fire
You Know Just What I'd Do
Sadness of It All
It's True Love
Lovin' What Your Lovin' Does to Me
I Still Believe in Waltzes
Oh Honey-Oh Babe
Making Believe

Customer Reviews:

Conway Twitty.......2007-03-09

Bought as a gift. The recipient was extremely happy, and I found the ordering wonderfully easy.

Country's Finest.......2007-01-08

Before there was Tim and Faith there was the ultimate in country duos--Loretta and Conway. The songs sound as fresh and vital as they did when they were first released. If anything, they are getting better with age. It may be cool to dis the older country stars but if you do, you are missing out on some of the finest Nashville produced.

The Greatest Duo in Country Music........2006-08-24

It is indeed about time to get our hands on this CD.

Please note, Conway & Loretta each have a unique style, but combine both and you shall hear a new flavor that will keep you playing the CD over and over again.

You enjoy the duet so much that you think that they were a couple, but in reality they were only two great close friends.

My only regret is that I wish a boxset is released with the complete recordings of all the duets made by Conway & Loretta.

Thanks & Enjoy,
Nawaf

WOOOOO OOOOOHHHHOOOO ABOUT TIME!!!!.......2005-05-04

All I can say is it is about time MCA (UNIVERSAL) RELEASED A NEW CD THAT CONTAINS SOME OTHER SONGS BY LORETTA & CONWAY WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVER.. I LOVE THIS CD CAN'T WAIT TILL THE MID JUNE WHEN THEY RELEASE THE LORETTA LYNN THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION.... IF THEY DO THEY SAME FOR IT AS THEY HAVE HERE WE WILL ALL BE IN FOR A REAL TREAT.. THIS CD CONTAINS SOME OF THE BEST CONWAY & LORETTA SONGS THE ONES WE ALL SING ALONG TOO.. LOL AND MAY HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT TILL NOW.. LIKE,EASY LOVING,FROM SEVEN TILL TEN,YOUR THE REASON I DON'T SLEEPL AT NIGHT,HOW HIGH CAN YOU BUILD A FIRE,DON'T TELL ME YOUR SORRY, AND MORE. A MUST FOR COUNTRY LOVERS THIS IS COUNTRY AS COUNTRY GETS AND SHOULD BE... WAY TO MCA.. KEEP EM' COMIN

Conway & Loretta - Quality Guaranteed.......2005-04-24

Music is a taste of heaven. When it comes to country soul, Conway and Loretta are second to none. Here are 24 superb selections to show why they are the most respected and decorated
country duet team in Country Music History. Plus, their music touches the heart and soul of the country fan. There is a blending of voice harmonies that remains unmatched to date. These two artists were superstars alone and formed a 3rd superstar act together while maintaining indivuality. If you are looking for a selection of great country with cross-over power, but still true to country tradition, then look no further. When you purchase, always buy the best. You will never be disappointeed. Such is true with this set of 24 powerful songs by two of music's greatest acheivers! Go for it! Enjoy!!

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Loretta Lynn rocks!
Loretta Rocks
Loretta Lynn Gold is pure gold
Great collection for casual fans, die hards still waiting
Very good collection...

Gold
Loretta Lynn
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Release Date: 2006-03-07

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Success
Before I'm Over You
Wine, Women And Song
Mr. And Mrs. Used To Be
Happy Birthday
Blue Kentucky Girl
Dear Uncle Sam
You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man
Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Fist City
You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out On Me)
Your Squaw Is On The Warpath
Woman Of The World
To Make A Man (Feel Like A Man)
You Wanna Give Me A Lift
Coal Miner's Daughter
After The Fire Is Gone

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You're Lookin' At Country
I Wanna Be Free
One's On The Way
Rated "X"
The Pill
Love Is The Foundation
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
Hey Loretta
They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy Anymore
Trouble In Paradise
When The Tingle Becomes A Chill
Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight)
She's Got You
Out Of My Head And Back In My Bed
I Can't Feel You Anymore
I Lie
Silver Threads And Golden Needles
Country In My Genes

Customer Reviews:

Loretta Lynn rocks!.......2007-05-15

I'm not sure just how "remastered" this set is - many tracks sound a LOT like earlier comps - but, whatever, it sounds fine and assembles what I believe are all the right tunes. (Watch out for the packages omitting "Dear Uncle Sam"!)

Lynn sorta played the Stones to Parton's Beatles - darkness, sex and drinking everywhere - but, at her most essential, she was an ideologue. Proto-feminist, proto-riot grrl - "Fist City," "The Pill" and "One's On The Way" are not to be believed!

It's cool by me the Van lear Rose sessions are not included; Jack White's heavy laminations just seemed like so many gimmicks on retreads. Here is Lynn, powerful and proud, in the 60's and (early) 70's singing truth to power with a nice clean sound.

Yeh!

Loretta Rocks.......2007-01-20

This is a great compilation of most of Loretta's most popular songs. The best part is that they are arranged in chronological order so you can hear her voice progress as they hits go by. She sounds so young on "Honky Tonk Girl" and by the end of disc 2 you can hear how her voice has matured. It is AWESOME! Plus you get some great music including Conway Twitty, Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette. I highly recommend this collection for any true Loretta Lynn fan!

Loretta Lynn Gold is pure gold.......2006-08-23

I used to have a couple of LL albums back in high school. I missed hearing those songs, so I searched for a CD to replace them. I am so glad that I did. Listening to her take on marriage, women, men, etc. brings a smile and often an outloud chuckle. "One's on the Way" and "Hey, Loretta" hits home for this married lady.

Great collection for casual fans, die hards still waiting.......2006-06-03

After 40 plus years in the music business, you'd think they could compile some more juicy material I haven't already bought. Loretta is one of a kind and I'd love to see more of her work from the 70's and 80's on CD. "Silver Threads.." was a neat idea, but probably a better choice for Tammy Wynette fans. Of course I bought "GOLD," I'm a die hard after all and it IS a great collection, especially for the re-mastering and for the casual fan purchase.

Very good collection..........2006-04-05

This is a good selection of Loretta Lynn music except I wish they included a WHO WAS THAT STRANGER from her 1988 release. However, it doesn't take any stars away. The music here is remastered and sounds great.

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All Time Gospel Favorites
Loretta Lynn
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