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Still Country (2000)

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

Loretta Lynn's album came after more than a decade without a commercial studio record, and it was released with a bonus DVD of two music videos.

Key places

Where the album was recorded and mixed (2000)

Recording site Creative Recording — Ron "Snake" Reynolds recorded and mixed the album at Scruggs Sound Studio. The point is placed at city-level coordinates, so it does not show the exact building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Still Country: 41st solo studio album by American country singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn
• Released September 12, 2000 by Audium Records and Koch Records
• Lynn's first commercial studio album in over a decade
• Previous commercial studio album: Who Was That Stranger, 1988
• Reissued in 2004 with a bonus DVD of two music videos for "Country in My Genes"
• Ten tracks on the CD edition, including "Country in My Genes" by Larry Cordle, Betty Key and Larry Shell
• Songs by outside writers include "Somewhere Someone's Falling in Love" (John Prine, Donnie Fritts) and "Table for Two" (Max D. Barnes, Vince Gill)

Background

• Lynn sings lead vocals on all tracks as the album's central artist
• Earl Scruggs plays banjo on "God's Country" and "Country in My Genes"
• Stuart Duncan plays fiddle on "Hold Her" and "On My Own Again"
• Matraca Berg and Carolyn Dawn Johnson add backing vocals on "Working Girl"

Recording

• Recorded and mixed at Scruggs Sound Studio by Ron "Snake" Reynolds
• Randy Scruggs produced the album through Randy Scruggs Productions
• Bridgett Petraitis served as production coordinator
• Bob Bullock engineered the overdubs
• Mastering done at Masterfonics by Benny Quinn

Cover

• CD cover photo by Peter Nash
• CD cover design by Chris Ferrara and Team Design

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.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

• Released September 12, 2000 by Audium Records and Koch Records
• It was Lynn's first commercial studio album in over a decade, since 1988's Who Was That Stranger.
• Loretta Lynn credited as lead vocalist on the album
• Randy Scruggs credited as producer, working through Randy Scruggs Productions
• Banjo by Earl Scruggs and Randy Scruggs
• Backing vocals by Matraca Berg, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Liana Manis, Dennis Wilson, Chris Young and Curtis Young
• Steel guitar by Dan Dugmore and Lloyd Maines

Records

• Reissued in 2004 with a bonus DVD of two music videos for "Country in My Genes"
• The CD edition runs to ten tracks
• Outside writers credited on the album include John Prine, Donnie Fritts, Vince Gill and Max D. Barnes
• Credits list John Hobbs on piano and synthesizer and Glenn Worf on bass
• Mastering done at Masterfonics by Benny Quinn

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The 2004 reissue added a bonus DVD with two music videos for "Country in My Genes".
• Earl Scruggs played banjo on "God's Country" and "Country in My Genes".
• Stuart Duncan played fiddle on "Hold Her" and "On My Own Again".
• Matraca Berg and Carolyn D. Johnson added backing vocals on "Working Girl".
• Mastering was done at Masterfonics by Benny Quinn.
• The CD cover photo was taken by Peter Nash.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

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