{"id":792126,"date":"2019-01-17T09:13:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=780218"},"modified":"2019-01-17T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:13:15","slug":"flashback-watch-loretta-lynn-and-jack-white-tear-through-portland-oregon-on-letterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-watch-loretta-lynn-and-jack-white-tear-through-portland-oregon-on-letterman\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Watch Loretta Lynn and Jack White Tear Through \u2018Portland, Oregon\u2019 on \u2018Letterman\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Loretta Lynn<\/a> just announced that she will mark her 87th birthday with a massive tribute concert<\/a> in Nashville in April. The show will feature Garth Brooks, George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Alan Jackson, Kacey Musgraves, Brandy Clark and more. Lynn made a rare appearance at a press conference announcing the event \u2014 one of her first since suffering a stroke and a broken hip in the last two years. Looking like her classic, badass self, she told reporters that she\u2019s feeling great.<\/p>\n

The birthday bash will also feature an appearance by Jack White<\/a>, who\u2019s done a lot to turn new audiences onto Lynn in the 21st century, including producing her 2004 comeback album Van Lear Rose<\/em>. The album was raw, reflective and full of Lynn\u2019s trademark wit. Rolling Stone<\/em> gave it four stars<\/a>, with Rob Sheffield writing,\u201cShe still sings with all the passion of the blue Kentucky girl who busted out of Butcher Hollow, the coal miner\u2019s daughter who got married at thirteen and fought her way to fame. She\u2019s always had the toughest, meanest, fiercest, warmest and sexiest voice in country music.\u201d<\/p>\n