Following the success of Loretta Lynn's latest album, Van Lear Rose, which scored her highest-ever debut on the Billboard 200 album charts at No. 24 and was just nominated for the Shortlist Music Prize in the U.S., there are plans for her and producer Jack White of The White Stripes to make at least three more records.
If Lynn has her way, they'll do a Christmas collection, a religious album called Thank God For Jesus, and another disc of original material.
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Living out loud
Rumours of Loretta Lynn's impending death have been greatly exaggerated.
Despite the Aug. 9 cover of the Globe supermarket tabloid that declared: "Loretta Lynn Risks Death: Just out of hospital, she's killing herself for her fans," the 69-year-old country music icon says she's on the mend from a recent bout with double pneumonia, her second this year.
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