by
Loretta Lynn
- Record Label: Sony Music Distribution
- Release Date: Nov 9, 2010
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Mar 21, 2011Lynn still owns the songs, but she's pleased as pie to lend them out, and they come back to her lovingly countrified even when the borrower is Hayley Williams, of Paramore and Franklin, Tennessee, who acts naturally over an acoustic guitar and should give Jack White lessons.
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Nov 9, 2010Most songs here emphasize Lynn's signature feistiness, but Williams zeroes in on the deep heartache she's also adept at, choosing her 1976 hit "Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight)," one of 16 singles Lynn took to No. 1. There's a full record of this soul-scorching facet of Lynn's music lurking somewhere, for somebody.
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Nov 9, 2010On A Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn usual suspects like Faith Hill and Alan Jackson pay their respects to the country veteran, along with such Music City outsiders as Kid Rock (''I Know How'') and the White Stripes (''Rated X'').
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Jan 11, 2011This disc highlights a collection of substantial songs every bit as relevant as they were in Loretta's heyday.
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Nov 9, 2010This record is all over the map, showing how widespread Loretta Lynn's influence has been on the generations of performers who have followed her.
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Nov 9, 2010Other Nashville all-stars-Lee Ann Womack ("I'm a Honky Tonk Girl"), Carrie Underwood ("You're Lookin' at Country"), and Reba McEntire ("If You're Not Gone Too Long")--contribute perfectly adequate performances, and Miranda Lambert plows duet partner Sheryl Crow into the ground with her saucy delivery on "Coal Miner's Daughter," which features a cameo by Miss Loretta herself. Still, most of the disc's highlights come from those outside of the country genre.
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Nov 9, 2010A tribute to the toughest Nashville queen ever, this record has a steely spine.