Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn first arrived in Nashville 55 years ago, signing her first recording contract on February 1, 1960. A self-taught guitarist and songwriter, Lynn became one of the most distinctive performers in Nashville in the 1960s and 1970s. Loretta Lynn’s instantly recognizable delivery makes for one of the greatest voices in music history. With hits such as “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl,” “Don’t Come Home A- Drinkin’”, “Somebody Somewhere,” “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” “Out of My Head and Back in My Bed,” “Success,” “I Lie,” “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and “You’re Lookin’ at Country,” no songwriter has a more distinctive body of work. Lynn is also one of the most awarded musicians of all time. She has been inducted into more music Halls of Fame than any female recording artist, including The Country Music Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and was the first woman to be named the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year in 1972. Lynn received Kennedy Center Honors in 2003 and a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. She has won four Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010) and sold more than 45 million records worldwide. In March 2016, Legacy Recordings released FULL CIRCLE, Loretta’s first new studio album in over ten years. Produced by Patsy Lynn Russell and John Carter Cash, and recorded at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, FULL CIRCLE will take listeners on a journey through Loretta’s musical story, from the Appalachian folk songs and gospel music she learned as a child, to new interpretations of her classic hits and country standards, to songs newly-written for the project. Loretta Lynn’s life is still a work in progress. She’s still out there on the road, still writing songs and still recording them as only she can. “I ain’t a star – a star is something up in the night sky,” says Loretta Lynn. “People say to me, ‘You’re a legend.’ I’m not a legend. I’m just a woman.”
