On April 21 I will be performing (with my band the Space Dots) in a Tribute to Loretta Lynn at
BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown, MD . I'll be sharing the night with
Ruthie and the Wranglers.I have been trying to write my own Tribute to Loretta Lynn here, but all I came up with was a bunch of pretentious crap. I'll just say this - a couple of years ago I had the blues big time for several months. About 90 percent of my CD collection was off limits. I discovered a "Loretta Lynn Greatest Hits" CD that I had bought years earlier, when I didn't really know her music and had probably been expecting her to sound like her friend and mentor Patsy Cline. Since she didn't, I had just shelved it. But now I needed something new, since my playlist at that time was some combination of Puccini, Lucinda Williams and Janis Joplin and assorted Irish music, and all of that was just TOXIC!! So I grabbed Loretta and took off on my road trip. I don't know what I missed the first time around, but this time her forthright, heartfelt singing and her effortless sounding lyrics and music just wrapped around my heart and put a smile on my face every time I played them....and played them....and played them.
I found some wonderful
YouTube clips of some of her performances from the 1960s and 1970s tv variety shows. Go listen to them. My favorites so far are "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Blue Kentucky Girl" and "How Great Thou Art," which moved me to tears when I first heard her do it.
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