Tuesday, January 5, 2021

A new album on the way from Loretta Lynn

Still Woman Enough, Loretta Lynn's new studio album, is due out March 19 via 
Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Entertainment. It is available for pre-order now in in digital, CD and 12" vinyl LP formats HERE

Exclusive Still Woman Enough merchandise bundles are also available: HERE
View the album trailer: HERE

Lynn's 50th studio album (excluding her 10 studio duet collaborations with Conway Twitty), celebrates women in country music. From her homage to the originators, Mother Maybelle Carter and the Carter Family (via her cover of "Keep On The Sunny Side") through a new interpretation of her very first single, "I'm A Honky Tonk Girl," Loretta Lynn acknowledges her role in the continuum of American country music with a special collaboration with Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood ("Still Woman Enough"), and duets with Margo Price ("One's On The Way") and Tanya Tucker ("You Ain't Woman Enough").

"I am just so thankful to have some of my friends join me on my new album. We girl singers gotta stick together," said Loretta Lynn. "It's amazing how much has happened in the fifty years since 'Coal Miner's Daughter' first came out and I'm extremely grateful to be given a part to play in the history of American music."

Still Woman Enough was mainly recorded at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, with producers Patsy Lynn Russell and John Carter Cash.

The album premieres 13 new Loretta Lynn recordings and is centered around her original compositions--from new songs like "Still Woman Enough" (which shares a title with the 2002 autobiography and was cowritten with her daughter, Patsy Lynn Russell) through fresh interpretations of classics including "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl" (her first single, originally released March 1960), "You Ain't Woman Enough" (the title track for her first #1 Billboard Hot Country Album in 1966), "My Love" (from 1968's Here's Loretta Lynn), "I Wanna Be Free" (1971) and "Coal Miner's Daughter Recitation," commemorating the 50th anniversary of the release of her signature song (October 5, 1970) and album (January 4, 1971).

In mid-2020, Loretta reunited with director David McClister to collaborate on a short film version of "Coal Miner's Daughter Recitation." Shot on location at her ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, Loretta's new music video includes scenes filmed in her "Butcher Holler" replica home.

View the new music video: HERE

In addition to her original compositions, Still Woman Enough includes Loretta's take on American traditional music ("I Don't Feel at Home Any More," Stephen Foster's "Old Kentucky Home"), country-gospel (The Carter Family-popularized "Keep On The Sunny Side," "Where No One Stands Alone," "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight," Hank Williams' "I Saw the Light") and contemporary singer-songwriting (Shel Silverstein's satirical view of motherhood, "One's On The Way," a hit for Loretta in 1971).

For the cover portrait on Still Woman Enough, Loretta's wearing a newly-designed couture dress--created especially for this album by her longtime dressmaker Tim Cobb--inspired by the iconic gown she wore on the original Coal Miner's Daughter album cover.

Celebrating 50 years of that landmark album, Coal Miner's Daughter will be reissued on black vinyl by MCA Nashville/UMe on February 12; preorder HERE

Track listing: 

01. Still Woman Enough (featuring Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood) (Loretta Lynn and Patsy Lynn Russell)
02. Keep On The Sunny Side (A.P. Carter)
03. Honky Tonk Girl (Loretta Lynn)
04. I Don't Feel At Home Any More (Traditional, arrangement by Loretta Lynn)
05. Old Kentucky Home (Stephen Foster and Loretta Lynn)
06. Coal Miner's Daughter Recitation (Loretta Lynn)
07. One's On The Way (featuring Margo Price (Shel Silverstein)
08. I Wanna Be Free (Loretta Lynn)
09. Where No One Stands Alone (Lister Mosie)
10. I'll Be All Smiles Tonight (T.B. Ransom)
11. I Saw The Light (Hank Williams)
12. My Love (Loretta Lynn)
13. You Ain't Woman Enough (featuring Tanya Tucker) (Loretta Lynn)

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