New Loretta Lynn music due in 2015 under multi-album deal

Country queen Loretta Lynn has signed a new multi-album contract with Legacy Recordings, which plans a 2015 release of the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” singer/songwriter’s first album of new material in more than a decade.

The forthcoming release under the new deal is still untitled, but is expected to include recordings she has made over the last several years working with her daughter, Patsy L. Russell, and John Carter Cash, the son of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash.

It will be her first new release since “Van Lear Rose,” her widely acclaimed return-to-form album from 2004 with producer/songwriter/musician Jack White, an outing that earned two Grammy Awards, including country album of the year.

Lynn, Russell and Cash “have been working together at the Cash Cabin Studio on a project that travels back and explores Loretta’s musical history, from the Appalachian folk songs and gospel music she learned as a child, to new interpretations of her classic hits and country standards, to songs newly written for the project,” according to a statement issued Thursday by Legacy.

“Drawing inspiration from personal memories and deep connections to American music, Lynn’s new recordings capture the essence of these songs in intimate new performances, the way they might’ve sounded growing up in the 1930s and ‘40s” in Butcher Hollow, Ky., the statement said.

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