CD Review - Van Lear Rose- Fucken A!

This is a Review for Loretta Lynn's latest cd "Van Lear Rose"produced and arranged by Jack White of the White Stripes.
OK, before you dismiss this venture, because it's country. Let me just say this cd is Fucken Bitch-slap me good, down home fuck me hard music. Lately what is coming out of the once novel and hard hitting rap and urban scene has become predictable and passe'; Lynn's release is textured with solid lyrics and their simplicity tells stories, grooves and rocks the listener with a hint of her unique twang. Could it be old country is the new voice of music?

You be the judge:

Track 5 -"Have Mercy" sounds like something one would hear on the soundtrack to a Tarantino film. Rough, Tough and sexually charged.

Track 2- "Portland, Oregon" is a duet with Jack White, it opens with lyrics: "Well Portland Oregon and sloe gin fizz, if that ain't love then tell me what is." Fucken Classic.

Track 9 - "Woman's Prison" - I would categorically say it's the woman's answer to Johnny Cash's tune "Cocaine Blues" and the moral to these songs, if you catch your lover cheating on you, whatever you do, don't kill them or you'll end up in the chair.

Track 13 - The last track appropriately titled: "Story of my life", she sings her bio in 2:40. I'd like to see Britney try and do it after 70 albums and still manage to poke a dig to the Hollywood scum who scammed her on the movie made of her life "Coal Miners Daughter".

Some would say 69 is the finest of all numbers, in Loretta's case I'd have to say it rings true! Born in 1935, the first lady of country may have brought her music to a whole new audience of listeners.