Van Lear Rose CD

Van Lear Rose paired 72-year-old Loretta Lynn with 28-year-old Jack White, who produced the record and sang the duet with her on "Portland, Oregon." Released on Interscope in 2004, it won Grammys for Best Country Album and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals and pulled a Metacritic score of 97, among the highest ever recorded for any album. First-week sales spiked to 37,000 copies, the sharpest sales week of her career in the SoundScan era, and the title traces back to Van Lear, the Kentucky coal-mining community near Butcher Hollow, where she actually grew up.