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" It&amp;#039;s early yet, but we&amp;#039;ve just heard our pick for the year&amp;#039;s most genius performance by an unlikely duo. Loretta Lynn tapped Jack White to produce her new album, Van Lear Rose (out in April). Here, a conversation with the first lady of country music.  ESQ: Working with Jack White must have turned some heads in Nashville. LL: We had four musicians in a small studio, so I think we took it back to the early days of Nashville--only since the boys are from Detroit, it&amp;#039;s not the same ol&amp;#039; Nashville sound. And we didn&amp;#039;t even get to the songs I really like. I guess they&amp;#039;re for next time. ESQ: Most of these songs are confessional. Are they hard to write? LL: It&amp;#039;s always been easy for me. Everyone thinks that it would be hard for me because of my husband. If I wrote about Doolittle, he&amp;#039;d get mad, but then he&amp;#039;d run all the way to the bank with the money when it hit number one. When I got to Nashville, they turned me away everywhere. I sat on every publisher&amp;#039;s doorstep at 8:00 A.M. asking for new songs. They&amp;#039;d say, &amp;quot;We didn&amp;#039;t have any yesterday. We don&amp;#039;t have any today.&amp;quot; So I&amp;#039;d say, &amp;quot;Well, then why did you all come to work?&amp;quot; ESQ: Do you still enjoy the road? LL: To this day, I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;m that good and worry about it. So I usually ask the public to sing along if I can&amp;#039;t remember the words. I have too many songs to remember them all. ESQ: Are you the last of your kind? LL: There&amp;#039;s a lot of us, like Jack Daniels. ESQ: Charlie Daniels? LL: Him. He&amp;#039;s been in the business a long, long time. I didn&amp;#039;t start until I was 27. I had four kids in school. And two years after I started singing, I had twins. I said, &amp;quot;Oh, my God! They&amp;#039;re coming in pairs.&amp;quot; I looked at Doo and said, &amp;quot;You better do something, &amp;#039;cause the next one is gonna be a litter.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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