Loretta by Loretta Lynn

Loretta

Loretta Lynn

1980

Loretta is a Folk album by Loretta Lynn, originally released in 1980. On Gatefold: 10 pressings tracked.

Sound DNA

  • Folk
  • Singer-Songwriter
  • stripped-back
  • earnest
  • confessional

About

In the mid-1960s, the direction of country music was changed forever by a coal miner’s daughter from Butcher Holler, Kentucky. Loretta Lynn brought a new, uniquely feminine perspective to Nashville as she poured out her songs of frustration, defiance and resolve, and she did it with grace, smarts and humor, as the tracks here make plain. Decades later, tunes like “Don’t Come Home a-Drinkin’(With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man),” “One’s on the Way,” and “The Pill” still carry a kick. Back when it counted, Lynn spoke the truth fearlessly and made the country music establishment like it. But feminist manifestos are only part of Lynn’s achievement. Her unvarnished singing delivers romantic laments like “When the Tingle Becomes a Chill” and “Blue Kentucky Girl” with utter believability. Her duets with Conway Twitty — especially the rueful “After the Fire is Gone” — are classic dialogues between the sexes. And beyond all this, there’s “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” of course, as perfect an expression of down-home pride as anyone has written. Fortunately for us all, Lynn’s iconic songs remain to show new generations of artists the way.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Wine, Women and Song (Single Version)2:01
  2. 2Happy Birthday (Single Version)2:03
  3. 3Blue Kentucky Girl (Single Version)2:41
  4. 4You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man (Single Version)2:12
  5. 5Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) [Single Version]2:07
  6. 6Fist City (Single Version)2:12
  7. 7You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out On Me) [Single Version]2:16
  8. 8Woman of the World (Single Version)2:54
  9. 9Coal Miner's Daughter (Single Version)2:58
  10. 10After the Fire Is Gone (Single Version)2:37
  11. 11You're Lookin' At Country (Single Version)2:17
  12. 12Lead Me On (Single Version)2:24
  13. 13One's On the Way (Single Version)2:37
  14. 14Rated "X" (Single Version)2:38
  15. 15The Pill (Single Version)2:37
  16. 16Love Is the Foundation (Single Version)2:30
  17. 17Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man (Single Version)2:30
  18. 18As Soon As I Hang Up the Phone (Single Version)2:40
  19. 19Trouble In Paradise (Single Version)2:08
  20. 20When the Tingle Becomes a Chill (Single Version)3:00
  21. 21Feelins' (Single Version)3:00
  22. 22Out of My Head and Back In My Bed (Single Version)2:40
  23. 23Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight) [Single Version]3:01
  24. 24She's Got You (Single Version)3:04
  25. 25I Can't Feel You Anymore (Single Version)

Credits

Performers

Rare pressing on Gatefold · 10 pressings tracked on Gatefold