{"id":21201,"date":"2020-01-31T07:32:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1817442"},"modified":"2020-01-31T07:32:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:32:04","slug":"loretta-lynn-shares-her-thoughts-on-modern-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/loretta-lynn-shares-her-thoughts-on-modern-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Loretta Lynn Shares Her Thoughts on Modern Country Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:688219?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n32m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Martina McBride, legendary country star Loretta Lynn opened up about the state of the music right now. <\/p>\n<p>During McBride\u2019s <em>Vocal Point<\/em> podcast, Lynn said, \u201cI think (country music) is dead. I think it\u2019s a shame. I think it\u2019s a shame to let a type of music die. I don\u2019t care what any kind of music it is. Rock, country, whatever. I think it\u2019s a shame to let it die, and I\u2019m here to start feeding it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not happy at all. I think that they\u2019re completely losing it. And I think that\u2019s a sad situation because we should never let country music die. I think that every type of music should be saved, and country is one of the greatest. It\u2019s been around, as far as I\u2019m concerned, longer than any of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lynn\u2019s latest album <em>Wouldn\u2019t It Be Great<\/em> \u2014 her 45 studio album \u2014 was released in 2018.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gtmy7Wn31SE?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gtmy7Wn31SE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1817442\/loretta-lynn-shares-her-thoughts-on-modern-country-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 32m ago In a recent interview with Martina McBride, legendary country star Loretta Lynn opened up about the state of the music right now. During McBride\u2019s Vocal Point podcast, Lynn said, \u201cI think (country music) is dead. I think it\u2019s a shame. I think it\u2019s a shame to let a type of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 15:49:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}