Loretta Lynn

As the producer, Jack White makes Lynn's album sound like countrified White Stripes with better drumming, but that's just fine. This is the first time Lynn has recorded all her own songs on one record, and her music proves to be more haunting than any Nashville producer could have imagined. Oh, and the kids will dig it.

No matter who you are, one thing is for sure: You ain't woman enough to take Loretta
Lynn's man. Miss Loretta has been a country legend for more than forty years, but she still
sings with all the passion of the blue Kentucky girl who busted out of Butcher Hollow, the
coal miner's daughter who got married at thirteen and fought her way to fame. She's
always had the toughest, meanest, fiercest, warmest and sexiest voice in countr... More >

Are we allowed to wonder whether she's spunky enough for a Nashville legend with a new lease on life? ("Red Shoes," "Story of My Life") (Grade - ***)