As Loretta Lynn, 85, continues to recover from a stroke she suffered in May, she announced today (July 12) that she is canceling all 2017 tour dates and postponing the release of her new album, Wouldnât It Be Great.
Wouldnât It Be Great, which was originally slated to drop in August 2017, will be released in 2018.
âThank you so much for all of your prayers, love and support,â said Loretta in a statement on her website. âIâm happy to say that Iâm at home with my family and getting better by the day! My main focus now is making a full recovery so that I can get back to putting all of me into what I love, sharing my music with all of you. My new album, Wouldnât It Be Great, was originally scheduled to come in August this year. I now want to wait to release it next year because this record is so special for me. It deserves me at my best and I canât wait to share it. I want to thank everyone for hanging in there with me. I am getting stronger every day and canât wait to get back out there with all of you. Iâm just letting everybody know that Willie ainât dead yet and neither am I, and I canât wait to see all of you on the road!â
All of the tunes on the new 10-song offering were penned or co-penned by Loretta. Like the albumâs predecessor, the Grammy-nominated Full Circle (March 2016), Wouldnât It Be Great was mainly recorded at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tenn., with producers Patsy Lynn Russell and John Carter Cash. The album features new songs âRubyâs Stool,â âAinât No Time to Goâ and âIâm Dying for Someone to Live Forâ alongside newly recorded renditions of past compositions such as âGod Makes No Mistakes,â âCoal Minerâs Daughterâ and âDonât Come Home Aâ Drinkinâ (With Lovinâ on Your Mind).â
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