Description
Loretta Lynn – Icon – Compact Disc
Loretta Lynn’s Icon is a 12-track hits compilation released on March 1, 2011 by MCA Nashville as part of Universal’s long-running ICON budget-line series (single-disc, essentials-style collections). It’s a tight overview of her peak-era singles and signature songs, focusing heavily on the material that made her a defining voice in mainstream country from the mid-1960s through the 1970s.
The tracklist is basically a “core curriculum” of Loretta’s catalog: “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man),” “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” “Fist City,” “One’s on the Way,” “Rated ‘X,’” “The Pill,” and “You’re Lookin’ at Country.” It also includes one of the key Conway Twitty duets, “After the Fire Is Gone,” plus “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man,” which is another essential Twitty/Lynn pairing.
What makes Icon useful (especially on CD) is how efficiently it shows Loretta’s range in a short runtime: early heartbreak and honky-tonk bite sit next to her more socially pointed “hard truths” hits, and then the later boundary-pushing songs (“Rated ‘X,’” “The Pill”) underline why she wasn’t just a great singer—she changed what mainstream country lyrics could talk about. If someone wants a single-disc introduction that hits the obvious landmarks without needing a multi-CD anthology, Icon is exactly that: the best-known songs, in a concise, straightforward package.
Brand new, never played and still in the factory plastic sealed
Track Listing
Blue Kentucky Girl
You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)
Don’t Come Home A Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind)
Fist City
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn – After The Fire Is Gone
You’re Lookin’ At Country
One’s On The Way
Rated X
Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn – Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
The Pill
She’s Got You
