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Certain Songs #970: Loretta Lynn (feat. Jack White) – “Portland, Oregon”

August 22, 2017 by Jim Connelly

Album: Van Lear Rose
Year: 2004

I’ll admit it: in 2004, when Van Lear Rose came out, I only had a vague knowledge of Loretta Lynn’s music. I mean, obviously, I knew that she’d been a Country superstar in the 1970s, and that Sissy Spacek had won the Oscar for Best Actress playing her in Coal Miner’s Daughter.

On the other hand, I completely knew who Jack White was, as The White Stripes were probably at the peak of both their popularity and their powers, and I was interested in Van Lear Rose because it was his first(?) extracirrcular project outside of the peculiar constraints he’d previously set on the music made.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Loretta Lynn, Portland Oregon, Van Lear Rose

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