Following the announcement of her demise on Tuesday, quite a few tributes poured in honoring Loretta Lynn. The singer-songwriter re-emerged as a drive in the early 2000s on the energy of Van Lear Rose, her album that was produced by Jack White. That album, which was her forty second studio album, was extensively praised and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, and No. 24 on the Billboard 200. The album gained Grammys for Best Country Album and “Portland Oregon” gained for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 2005.
Hours after her demise, White paid tribute to his buddy in a video posted on his Instagram account.
“I said when I was first asked about her what I thought and I said years ago that I thought she was the greatest female singer-songwriter of the 20th century. I still believe that,” White mentioned.
“Loretta used to say to make it in the business, you had to either be great, different, or first, and she thought that she was just different and that’s how she made it, but I think she was all three of those things and there’s plenty of evidence to back that up too,” he continued.
After reflecting on her brilliance as an artist, White mentioned that “she was just a genius and just brilliant at what she did and we were lucky to have her and people can learn from example the rags to riches part of it and the beautiful natural voice part of it.”
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