Sunday, May 01, 2005
Lovely Loretta
From the Modesto Bee
With those initials, the title "living legend" just comes naturally.
But Loretta Lynn's career in country music goes beyond legend. While many artists saddled with the label have stopped producing new, vibrant work, Lynn is receiving some of the best press of her career.
She returns to play Modesto's State Theatre on May 10. In May 2003, she played a sold-out show at the venue.
At 70, the "Coal Miner's Daughter" from Butcher Holler is in the middle of a full-blown musical renaissance. If the No. 2 Billboard country album, two Grammys and a Country Music Television Johnny Cash Visionary Award in the last year weren't enough to prove it, then how about her new, cool credentials?
When introducing Lynn at CMT Awards, Reba McEntire said, "At an age when most women seem to slow down, it seems Loretta is just getting started. Loretta has proven that she still has much to say, and no one else can say it like her."
Lynn keeps that trophy, and all the others she has amassed over her 45-year career, at her Tennessee ranch museum.
She won her first — and up to this year only — Grammy in 1971 for "After the Fire Is Gone," a duet with Conway Twitty. But the award in her collection isn't the one she picked up that night. After the show, she was in the airport with Twitty. "First thing I done was drop my award and break it all to pieces," she said. "Conway was laughing, then he dropped his and it went all to pieces. I said, 'That was a cheap award.'"
Country icon Loretta Lynn returns to Modesto at 8 p.m. May 10 for a show at the State Theatre, 1307 J St. Her twin daughters, The Lynns, will open the show. Tickets are $80 reserved balcony, $100 gold circle. Call 527-4697.
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Modesto Bee
With those initials, the title "living legend" just comes naturally.
But Loretta Lynn's career in country music goes beyond legend. While many artists saddled with the label have stopped producing new, vibrant work, Lynn is receiving some of the best press of her career.
She returns to play Modesto's State Theatre on May 10. In May 2003, she played a sold-out show at the venue.
At 70, the "Coal Miner's Daughter" from Butcher Holler is in the middle of a full-blown musical renaissance. If the No. 2 Billboard country album, two Grammys and a Country Music Television Johnny Cash Visionary Award in the last year weren't enough to prove it, then how about her new, cool credentials?
When introducing Lynn at CMT Awards, Reba McEntire said, "At an age when most women seem to slow down, it seems Loretta is just getting started. Loretta has proven that she still has much to say, and no one else can say it like her."
Lynn keeps that trophy, and all the others she has amassed over her 45-year career, at her Tennessee ranch museum.
She won her first — and up to this year only — Grammy in 1971 for "After the Fire Is Gone," a duet with Conway Twitty. But the award in her collection isn't the one she picked up that night. After the show, she was in the airport with Twitty. "First thing I done was drop my award and break it all to pieces," she said. "Conway was laughing, then he dropped his and it went all to pieces. I said, 'That was a cheap award.'"
Country icon Loretta Lynn returns to Modesto at 8 p.m. May 10 for a show at the State Theatre, 1307 J St. Her twin daughters, The Lynns, will open the show. Tickets are $80 reserved balcony, $100 gold circle. Call 527-4697.
Read the article
Modesto Bee
# posted by Dave Sichak @ 1:48 PM 
