Loretta Lynn and Friends

• Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn [Columbia Nashville, 2010] A-

See Also:

• Loretta Lynn
• Loretta/Dolly/Tammy
• Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty
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Consumer Guide Reviews:

Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn [Columbia Nashville, 2010]
Two historic performances, Carrie Underwood's cornpone-deluxe "You're Lookin' at Country" and a Lambert-Crow-Lynn trifecta taking the title song home, counterbalance cocky ones by the matched pair Jack White and Kid Rock. Both are guys, as you may have noticed, so let me note that Alan Jackson and Steve Earle distinguish themselves as the duet partners they're proud to be. This isn't just a women's record, it's a sisterhood record--not even the ever more stylized Lucinda Williams tries to upstage the artist who did more than Kitty Wells herself to make all these gals' artistic lives possible. Lynn 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. A-

See Also

• [NPR] Singers Have a Ball on Album Dedicated to 'Honky Tonk Girl' Loretta Lynn [2010-12-22]