Loretta Lynn Announces New Album “Full Circle”
Loretta Lynn will be releasing a new record, her first since 2004’s critically-acclaimed Van Lear Rose, when Sony’s Legacy imprint releases Full Circle on March 4th, 2016. The news was announced Tuesday morning (11-10), but Saving Country Music told you to anticipate the new Loretta release way back in November of 2014 when it was first revealed Loretta had signed up with Sony’s Legacy imprint. At the time, Loretta explained she had recorded as many as 90 songs, including some old classics, and some new renditions of her own hits. We see this come to fruition in the fourteen tracks of Full Circle.
Over the past eight years, Loretta has been working on the new music at Johnny Cash’s famous Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, TN with producers Patsy L. Russell, and John Carter Cash. Russell is Loretta’s daughter, and John Carter is the son of Johnny Cash and June Carter, and the operator/caretaker of the Cash Cabin Studios.
Full Circle finds Loretta remaking her classic hits “Whispering Sea,” “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven,” and “Fist City,” along with the traditional country tunes “Black Jack David” and “I Never Will Marry.” The album also includes collaborations with Willie Nelson and Elvis Costello, and a few new original tracks.
The release of Full Circle is also timed to coincide with the airing of American Masters Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl, which will debut on PBS on the evening of March 4th, 2016 at 9 p.m. on most stations.
Loretta Lynn’s Full Circle is also now available for pre-order.
TRACK LIST:
- Whispering Sea (Introduction)
- Whispering Sea
- Secret Love
- Who’s Gonna Miss Me?
- Black Jack David
- Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
- Always On My Mind
- Wine Into Water
- In The Pines
- Band Of Gold
- Fist City
- I Never Will Marry
- Everything It Takes (featuring Elvis Costello)
- Lay Me Down (featuring Willie Nelson)
November 10, 2015 @ 12:05 pm
Is this a joke? I think I’m in heaven
November 10, 2015 @ 12:49 pm
I was hoping for less covers and remakes. I still love Van Lear Rose. I guess they tapped out all the remaining original songs left back in 04.
November 10, 2015 @ 1:31 pm
VLR is great. 🙂
I kinda hoped Loretta would record her own versions of the Costello co-writes “Pardon Me, Madam, My Name is Eve” and “I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came” (from his late-’00s albums ‘Momofuku’ and ‘Secret, Profane & Sugarcane’) — unless she did but decided not to include either of them here…
November 10, 2015 @ 2:15 pm
I will have two check out those two songs. I’ve never been a huge Costello fan. I mostly like songs of his other artists cover, like Steve Earle’s version of “What’s so Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding.” I saw Costello in concert once (07 or 08) – longest concert ever. Up there with Wilco marathons.
May 27, 2018 @ 4:50 am
Elvis didn’t write What’s So Funny.
November 10, 2015 @ 2:19 pm
What I’m thinking is this track list may coincide with the soundtrack of this American Masters PBS special to hopefully piggy back the one off the other for better sales, and future releases through Legacy will be more standalone efforts. We’ll see.
November 10, 2015 @ 1:18 pm
Wow. 83 years old and still singing and performing better than ever.
Loretta is one of a kind. I really hope the album does well, I can’t wait for it.
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November 10, 2015 @ 2:19 pm
My week keeps getting better. As a really weird and useless bit of trivia, a common ancestor to Loretta Lynn and myself was a guy who was killed in the late 1700s by a mountain lion. I know it’s too distant to really “count” for anything but this has really been my week.
November 10, 2015 @ 2:29 pm
Luv it! The anticipation is killing me. Just hope some of this music gets airplay.
Would be something if this becomes a hard Push Back to the bros now. This is Sooo over due.
November 10, 2015 @ 3:10 pm
Lorretta has one of those voices …those one in a million voices that emote and elicit emotion from a listener whether she’s speaking OR singing . That voice says I AM COUNTRY . It has enormous character and confidence….she effortlessly throws away those high notes like you’d throw a Frisbee or an old hat .
She can bark out her point of view with unmistakable conviction or settle into a soothing lament which will have you falling in love with her . THAT is an Artist .
November 10, 2015 @ 3:54 pm
Meh………….
November 10, 2015 @ 4:12 pm
Legend.
November 10, 2015 @ 5:39 pm
Good news is good news. Long time to wait for this release date though.
November 10, 2015 @ 6:10 pm
Great news! Regardless of the number of original songs, I’m just excited that this country legend is gifting us with a new album at the age of 83. 83! Because listen, if I’m doing anything other than sitting on my ass when I’m 83, something has gone seriously awry with my life plan.
November 10, 2015 @ 11:00 pm
Loretta is the Queen. Such exciting news!!!! Hope they release the PBS special on DVD for us folks Down Under.
November 11, 2015 @ 12:30 pm
I’m proud to be a part of this record. I had worked on a couple of records w/her prior to this & it’s always amazing to hear her beautiful voice in the cue mix. It almost seems like a dream to hear such an iconic voice that I grew up (I never grew up…) listening too.
November 11, 2015 @ 3:08 pm
Go Loretta!
I have to confess, I’m a little disappointed that the track list actually isn’t longer. When I heard she had recorded so many songs, including old songs she grew up with, I was hoping this would be a more comprehensive anthology type project.. Either way, I will support whatever Loretta does regardless.
Great news about the American Masters special, by the way! It’s about time Loretta got a documentary.