Loretta Lynn - Definitive Collection (2005)

These 25 classics form a sort of primer in the art of the Nashville turnaround, a country music staple in which the storyline is capped with a climactic twist, which serves to reshuffle everything leading up to it. When it's done right, the turnaround delivers the payoff with the concision of poetry and the perfect symmetry of algebra, and Lynn's own songs are designed as meticulously as the cover tunes, written by Nashville's canniest songsmiths. Loretta may have gotten a late start on her musical career, but she's spent close to a half century making up for it, as these 25 intimate slices of 20th Century American life so sublimely demonstrate.

Tracklist:

01 - Wine, Women And Song
02 - Happy Birthday
03 - Blue Kentucky Girl
04 - You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)
05 - Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
06 - Fist City
07 - You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out On Me)
08 - Woman Of The World (Leave My World Alone)
09 - Coal Miner's Daughter
10 - After The Fire Is Gone
11 - You're Looking At Country
12 - Lead Me On
13 - One's On The Way
14 - Rated "X"
15 - The Pill
16 - Love Is The Foundation
17 - Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
18 - As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone
19 - Trouble In Paradise
20 - When The Tingle Becomes A Chill
21 - Feelins'
22 - Out Of My Head And Back In My Bed
23 - Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight)
24 - She's Got You
25 - I Can't Feel You Anymore