Loretta Lynn Announces New Album “Still Woman Enough”
Loretta Lynn will be joined by numerous guests, and celebrate the legacy of women in country music with her latest album called Still Woman Enough, set for release on March 19th via Sony’s Legacy Records imprint. Co-produced by Loretta’s daughter Patsy Lynn Russell and John Carter Cash at the Cash Cabin Studios, it will include new recordings of classic country songs, as well as retrospectives from the Loretta Lynn repertoire, some with cohorts Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood, Tanya Tucker, and Margo Price joining in.
“I am just so thankful to have some of my friends join me on my new album,” says Loretta Lynn. “We girl singers gotta stick together. It’s amazing how much has happened in the fifty years since ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ first came out and I’m extremely grateful to be given a part to play in the history of American music.”
The album includes 13 new tracks centered around Loretta’s original compositions, bookended by a new song called “Still Woman Enough,” which shares its title with her 2002 autobiography that was co-written with her daughter, Patsy Lynn Russell, and is a call back to Loretta’s song, “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” which ends the set with a new rendition.
The album also includes new interpretations of classic Loretta songs such as “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl,” which was her first single originally released in March of 1960, “My Love” from 1968’s Here’s Loretta Lynn, and “One’s On The Way,” which was written by Shel Silverstein, and was a hit for Loretta back in 1971.
Along with 2021 marking a new Loretta Lynn album, it also marks the 50th Anniversary of the release of Loretta Lynn’s landmark album Coal Miner’s Daughter, which hit shelves 50 years ago on January 4th, 1971—the day she announced Still Woman Enough. The new album includes the deeply emotional “Coal Miner’s Daughter Recitation,” commemorating the 50th anniversary of the release (listen below).
For the cover of the new album Still Woman Enough, Loretta is wearing a newly-designed couture dress created specifically for the album by her longtime dressmaker Tim Cobb. It is inspired by the iconic gown she wore on the original Coal Miner’s Daughter album cover.
Still Woman Enough is now available for pre-order.
TRACK LIST:
1. Still Woman Enough (featuring Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood) (Loretta Lynn and Patsy Lynn Russell)
2. Keep On The Sunny Side (A.P. Carter)
3. Honky Tonk Girl (Loretta Lynn)
4. I Don’t Feel At Home Any More (Traditional, arrangement by Loretta Lynn)
5. Old Kentucky Home (Stephen Foster and Loretta Lynn)
6. Coal Miner’s Daughter Recitation (Loretta Lynn)
7. One’s On The Way (featuring Margo Price (Shel Silverstein)
8. I Wanna Be Free (Loretta Lynn)
9. Where No One Stands Alone (Lister Mosie)
10. I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight (T.B. Ransom)
11. I Saw The Light (Hank Williams)
12. My Love (Loretta Lynn)
13. You Ain’t Woman Enough (featuring Tanya Tucker) (Loretta Lynn)
Tom Smith
January 4, 2021 @ 11:25 am
Do you happen to know when these were recorded?
Trigger
January 4, 2021 @ 12:17 pm
That’s a good question, and I don’t have a solid answer beyond saying the original Cash Cabin sessions with John Carter years back when Loretta first signed with Sony resulted in some 80 songs being archived for later release. My guess is some of this material comes from that, but some may be new, or the collaborations may be new. I’ll try to find that info.
Shawn Tackett
January 5, 2021 @ 8:03 am
Once again another great album in March. Amazon had it dated. the Oaks. Travis Tritt. The Goldens. Loretta Lynn and Willie Nelson. Although I do not know if his will be march. Country Music is off to a strong start for 2021. and the there is the great Indie artists that will be releasing Great music. I cannot wait. Hey Trigger. do you lnow if Tami Neilson will have an Album out this year. That would make my musical year complete. I hooe so.
Country When Country Wasn't Cool
January 5, 2021 @ 9:26 am
There were stories on different sites around Thanksgiving, about Reba and Carrie Underwood recording together at the Cash Cabin. So the collaborations are likely new.
Kevin Smith
January 4, 2021 @ 12:33 pm
I know I read that she had a bunch of recordings in the vault from some sessions at the Cash Cabin done a few years back. I suspect these are likely from that time period, but I could be wrong. The video was filmed this year at her ranch in Tennessee. We visited there this summer. The cabin in the video is the one from the Coal Miners daughter movie. It is an exact replica of the real one still in Butcher Holler KY. They moved the replica to her TN ranch and you get to tour it along with her house at Hurricane Mills. I really recommend it to anyone interested. You can easily spend the day there. Theres a terrific museum on the site as well, where all these dresses as well as guitars, cars and awards are displayed.
We met one of her daughters and granddaughters while there. They told us about the record and the fact that the video would be filmed this year in that cabin. Surreal experience and a true highlight of last year for sure.
Pretty cool that we are still getting quality music from one of the genres most important founders.
LB
January 4, 2021 @ 1:06 pm
Reba and Carrie were in the studio in November for this. John Cash Carter posted a picture on Instagram mentioning a secret project. Not sure about Loretta though for her parts.
Fuzzy Twoshirts
January 4, 2021 @ 1:11 pm
I don’t want to hear men, or women under thirty talking about “women in country music”
But I’ll lay my money down to hear it from Loretta because she’s real, honest and wise and she’s seen it all
I’d love to sit and just listen to her tell stories
Stringbuzz
January 4, 2021 @ 1:23 pm
hope she can overcome those gusts.
Jimmy
January 4, 2021 @ 6:51 pm
“Loretta Lynn will be joined by numerous gusts…”
Gusts of wind?
Just having a little fun, Trigger. I know you’d catch the typo soon enough.
Peace!
Corncaster
January 4, 2021 @ 7:32 pm
Loretta was, is, and will forever be a fine, kick a** country woman. Big fan. Unforgettable voice and delivery.
Ted Decker
January 6, 2021 @ 6:44 am
I would perfer all new matrial. Her last work with Jack White was amazing. Can’t say I’ve payed to much attention since then.
Kevin Smith
January 6, 2021 @ 11:44 am
Ted,
Her last couple albums featured new material from her. They too, were recorded at Cashs Cabin and produced by John Carter. Well worth checking out. She has boxes of songs in the rough and she’s been dipping into those for some time.
I too enjoyed Van Lear Rose. But here’s something you may not know. Her family and those closest to her, hate that record. Yes, they know it sold well and got her Grammys, but according to them, its not really what Loretta is about. They saw the album as a Hipster attempt to make her cool to young people. ( And be honest, it was) I definitely picked up on that talking to family and folks at her ranch in Hurricane Mills. Her son, in particular, despises the album, for the above-mentioned reasons. When you look at her body of work in totality, you realize what an anomaly that record is, it just doesn’t fit the style she’s made a career on. Its kinda like when the hippies decided that Muddy Waters could be cool to counter-culturalists , so they made him record Electric Mud, a very psychedelic, heavy -rock album. Sure, the hipsters at the time loved it, but to this day, blues fans think it stinks to high heaven.
Euro South
January 6, 2021 @ 4:25 pm
Loretta Lynn is a force of nature.
Teresa cheff
January 9, 2021 @ 8:31 am
She my favourite singer ….when my parents were both at work she was all I had to listen too with hank sr and gorge Jones so I can’t wait to get my Hands on a new Loretta Lynn music I know it will be great cause she’s is the best girl singer ans song writer of all time luv u Loretta Lynn from. Wapole island ont Canada fan and friend Tea cheff