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Wouldn't It Be Great (2018)

Where the lyrics of Wouldn't It Be Great take you, and where it was really made.

Originally due in August 2017, the album was delayed a full year while Lynn recovered from a stroke, and it came out in September 2018.

Key places

Where the album was recorded (2018)

Recording site Cash Cabin Studio — The album was recorded at Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, after Lynn's 2016 albums Full Circle and White Christmas Blue. The pin shows the city centre of Hendersonville, not the studio building itself. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Wouldn't It Be Great: 45th solo studio album by American country singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn
• Released by Sony Legacy on September 28, 2018
• Produced by Lynn's daughter Patsy Lynn Russell and John Carter Cash, son of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
• Follows the 2016 albums Full Circle and White Christmas Blue
• Mixes new songs with new versions of songs Lynn has recorded before

Background

• Originally scheduled for release on August 18, 2017
• Release postponed to 2018 in July 2017, and all remaining 2017 tour dates cancelled
• Lynn was recovering from a stroke suffered in May 2017
• In January 2018, her sister Crystal Gayle reported that Lynn had fallen at home on New Year's Day and fractured her hip
• These delays pushed back a release that had been rumored for spring
• In July 2018, Lynn returned to work and shot a music video for the album on July 10 at her ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee
• On August 22, 2018, Lynn announced the September 28 release date

Recording

• Recorded at Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee

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

• Lead single "Wouldn't It Be Great?" released on August 22, 2018, along with pre-orders
• Second single "Ruby's Stool" premiered on Parade.com on September 12, 2018
• Album streamed exclusively on NPR Music's website as part of its First Listen series on September 20, 2018
• Third single "Ain't No Time to Go" released on September 26, 2018, with a music video directed by Dave McClister that premiered on CMT's website

Records

• Debuted and peaked at No. 8 on the US Billboard Top Country Albums chart dated October 13, 2018, based on 9,000 equivalent album units
• Sold 3,200 more copies the following week and charted at No. 43
• Charted at No. 78 on the US Billboard 200
• Peaked at No. 2 on the US Billboard Top Americana/Folk Albums chart
• Sold 26,000 copies in the United States as of April 2019

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The release was set for August 18, 2017, but was moved to 2018 after Lynn's May 2017 stroke, and all remaining 2017 tour dates were cancelled.
• Lynn's sister Crystal Gayle reported in January 2018 that Lynn had fallen at home on New Year's Day and fractured her hip.
• The album's first single, "Wouldn't It Be Great?", had earlier been recorded by Lynn on her 1985 album Just a Woman.
• Lynn shot the album's music video at her ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, on July 10, 2018.
• "Ruby's Stool" premiered on Parade.com before the album's release.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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