Monday, August 30, 2004
Loretta lives on
From the Calgary Sun
Rumours of Loretta Lynn's impending death have been greatly exaggerated. Despite the Aug. 9 cover of the Globe supermarket publication that declared: "Loretta Lynn Risks Death: Just out of hospital, she's killing herself for her fans!" the 69-year-old country music icon says she's on the mend from a recent bout with double pneumonia, her second this year.
RENEWED INTEREST ... Loretta Lynn's new album Van Lear Rose, produced by Jack White of The White Stripes, has put the legend back on top.
"I'm feeling great — just mean, a little ornery," says Lynn, down the line from her tour bus this week somewhere in Connecticut. "You know, to have to spend three weeks in a hospital, you got to be ready to die, ain't you?"
Lynn, who is suddenly in vogue again due to Van Lear Rose — her new critically-acclaimed album produced by Detroit garage-rocker Jack White of The White Stripes — saw the Globe piece, and her biggest complaint was the unflattering photos.
"I look like I was a fat pig from country music," she says in that unmistakeable twang that comes when you're from a place called Butcher Holler, Ky. "I look so bad on that cover. I look like somebody had taken my skin and was pulling it off. I said, 'Can you believe that? The Kate Smith of country music!' I could not believe it.'
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Calgary Sun
Rumours of Loretta Lynn's impending death have been greatly exaggerated. Despite the Aug. 9 cover of the Globe supermarket publication that declared: "Loretta Lynn Risks Death: Just out of hospital, she's killing herself for her fans!" the 69-year-old country music icon says she's on the mend from a recent bout with double pneumonia, her second this year.
RENEWED INTEREST ... Loretta Lynn's new album Van Lear Rose, produced by Jack White of The White Stripes, has put the legend back on top.
"I'm feeling great — just mean, a little ornery," says Lynn, down the line from her tour bus this week somewhere in Connecticut. "You know, to have to spend three weeks in a hospital, you got to be ready to die, ain't you?"
Lynn, who is suddenly in vogue again due to Van Lear Rose — her new critically-acclaimed album produced by Detroit garage-rocker Jack White of The White Stripes — saw the Globe piece, and her biggest complaint was the unflattering photos.
"I look like I was a fat pig from country music," she says in that unmistakeable twang that comes when you're from a place called Butcher Holler, Ky. "I look so bad on that cover. I look like somebody had taken my skin and was pulling it off. I said, 'Can you believe that? The Kate Smith of country music!' I could not believe it.'
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Calgary Sun
# posted by Dave Sichak @ 2:59 PM 
