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Home (1975)

Where the lyrics of Home take you, and where it was really made.

Four of the album's songs were recorded months earlier, for other albums, before this record was made.

Key places

Bradley's Barn, Mount Juliet (1975)

Recording site Bradley's Barn — Recording sessions for the album were held at Bradley's Barn studio in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, in June 1975. This point marks the town centre, not the exact studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Home: 26th solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn
• Released August 11, 1975 by MCA Records
• The title track was released as the album's single
• Owen Bradley is credited as producer

Background

• Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter
• Home is her twenty-sixth solo studio album
• Four songs on the album were recorded in sessions held before the 1975 sessions

Recording

• Sessions for the album took place on June 10, June 11 and June 20, 1975
• Location: Bradley's Barn studio in Mount Juliet, Tennessee
• "Home" and "He's Only Everything" came from an October 8, 1974 session
• "Bring Some of It Home" was recorded on March 5, 1974, during a session for 1974's They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy
• "No Place Else to Go" was recorded during the December 19, 1974 session for 1975's Back to the Country
• Personnel listed in the liner notes: Harold Bradley (bass guitar), Ray Edenton (guitar), Johnny Gimble (fiddle), Lloyd Green (steel guitar), Mike Leech (bass), Kenny Malone (drums), Grady Martin (guitar), Charlie McCoy (harmonica/vibes), Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano), Hal Rugg (steel guitar), Jerry Smith (piano), Pete Wade (guitar)
• The Jordanaires provided backing vocals

Cover

• Billboard's note to record dealers: the front cover shows a country girl and the back cover shows a mansion
• Billboard stated that both belong to Loretta

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Early life

• Born Loretta Webb on April 14, 1932, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, the oldest daughter in a coal miner's family.
• Married Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn in 1948 at age 15; the marriage lasted almost 50 years until his death in 1996.
• Began singing in local clubs in the late 1950s and formed her own band, the Trailblazers.

Career

• Signed with Zero Records in 1960; her first release was "Whispering Sea" and "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl".
• Joined Decca Records through the Wilburn Brothers; joined the Grand Ole Opry on September 25, 1962.
• Scored a string of hits from the 1960s, including "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" and "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin'".
• Wrote songs on women's issues such as birth control ("The Pill") and double standards ("Rated 'X'"), many inspired by her own marriage.
• Recorded five No. 1 duets with Conway Twitty between 1971 and 1975.
• Her 1976 autobiography Coal Miner's Daughter became a bestseller and inspired the 1980 Oscar-winning film starring Sissy Spacek.
• Named Artist of the Decade for the 1970s by the Academy of Country Music, the only woman to win this honor.
• Released Van Lear Rose (2004), produced by Jack White, which won the Grammy for Best Country Album.
• Had a stroke in 2017 and broke her hip in 2018, which ended her touring after 57 years.
• Died on October 4, 2022, at age 90, at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Billboard published a review in its issue dated August 23, 1975
• Billboard said that with every session Loretta discovers more things she can do with her versatility
• Billboard noted that she sings many tunes already done by others and still holds her own in that competition
• Billboard named "You Take Me to Heaven Every Night", "No Place Else to Go", and "Bring Some of It Home" as the best cuts
• Billboard's review carried a note to record dealers about the cover art

Records

• Billboard Top Country Albums chart: peaked at No. 7
• Single "Home": peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Four songs on the album were recorded in earlier sessions, not in the June 1975 sessions.
• "Bring Some of It Home" came from a March 1974 session for They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy.
• "No Place Else to Go" came from a December 1974 session for Back to the Country.
• Billboard's note to record dealers pointed to the back cover mansion and the front cover country girl, both belonging to Loretta.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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