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“To me,” says six-time Grammy-nominee Brandy Clark of
Your Life is a Record, “it’s endings and beginnings. You know, sometimes you have to have endings to have those beautiful beginnings. I hope people listening find themselves in me finding myself.”
For Clark, who’s quietly become the go-to female creative for unlikely strength and compass-style truth,
Record takes her gentle humanity and ability to sketch people’s motivations and conflicts, but instead of surveying the world around her, the woman
The New York Times hails as “both a formalist and a sly subversive” looks in the mirror.
A nuanced songwriter-leaning album, string sections, the occasional oboe, a raw accordion supplement the essential nucleus of producer Jay Joyce, Giles Reeves and Jedd Hughes cutting live and always Clark’s melted caramel and sunshine voice, an instrument that carries dusky desire, unfettered joy and torchy ache with equal ease. As Joyce affirms, “Brandy’s like the (Lind
50 Years Later: Loretta Lynn’s ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ Album
Get ready for the vinyl reissue of Lynn s classic, February 12.
February 9, 2021 CIRCA 1972: Loretta Lynn poses for a portrait wearing a blue denim suit with cows in the background leaning up against a fence in circa 1972. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Loretta Lynn’s 1970 single “Coal Miner’s Daughter” showed a master storyteller at work. Through well-observed and finely detailed verses, Lynn told the story of her hardscrabble Kentucky childhood in a sincere, warmhearted manner that touched all listeners, regardless of their own personal upbringing. Lynn described how her father labored in the Kentucky coal mines, raising “eight kids on a miner’s pay,” while her mother worked tirelessly to keep the family washed and nourished, in all senses of that term. ‘
On Feb. 1, 1978, Dolly Parton s Here You Come Again became her first gold single.
At the time of the song s release, Parton was making a big push to break into the pop world. That s certainly evident from Here You Come Again : Written by songwriting legends Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil who had penned hits for the Righteous Brothers and the Drifters, among others and produced by Gary Klein (Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell), the song had recently appeared on a BJ Thomas LP.
Parton s version of Here You Come Again, which is about someone having their life shaken up from seeing an old flame, sounds contemporary. Glamorous backing vocals, syrupy strings and a perky, easygoing tempo dominate. But in a deliberate nod to her country roots, Al Perkins contributes pedal steel.
Always & Forever.
Always & Forever, Travis sophomore release, came out in 1987 and spawned four No. 1 singles, including Forever and Ever, Amen and I Told You So. It stayed at the top of the country charts for several weeks that year and the next, becoming the year-end No. 1 album in 1988.
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Always & Forever earned Travis a CMA for Album of the Year in 1987, the same year that he won Male Vocalist of the Year and Single of the Year, the latter for Forever and Ever, Amen. That song won two ACM Awards in 1987 as well, for Single Record of the Year and Song of the Year;