We also recorded some I’d never recorded (before), a couple Tammy Wynette songs and a Dottie West song. She attended Catholic schools in Music City and grew up with a backstage view of show business. She’s a woman.” Morgan pauses. Recently Lorrie released a new project through Country Crossing Records titled A Moment In Time. As an entertainment journalist, his work appears on ChicagoPride.com and is syndicated nationally. I just can’t go in and record stuff just to get on radio. Expressing the ups and downs of the imperfect life has always been Morgan’s strong suit. The first thing you realize is that you’re not competing with the original, you’re paying tribute to a song you love. Every seven to ten years, this business has gone through a severe change. .” she says softly. Keith’s manager, Don Light, had warned her early on. [Lorrie Morgan performs in Calumet, MI at The Calumet Theatre on Apr. “Whewwssh,” she breathes with a shuddering air. So you turn on a radio and you listen to Tammy sing, ’Time won’t heal my memory / God, it’s killin’ me.'”. “I love George,” she says quietly. She was signed to RCA in 1989 by label honcho Joe Galante, and later switched to BNA, a separate label under the RCA Label Group. Beneath her public life she has grappled with the private demands of being a working mother: Her daughter Morgan — by her first husband, George Jones’s bassist Ron Gaddis — is on the verge of being a college student. And the music business has really become more of a business than what it was originally meant to be. Responsible or not [laughs], I’m at the age now where I’m not going to do this because I’ve got to carry on my dad’s name. This is my first new album in more than five years. In 1979, she even cut an electronic duet with her late father on his ballad “I’m Completely Satisfied with You” for the Four Star label. So, I don’t know. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) LM: No. The first. LM: Well, I could say a lot! Today’s commercial country is a land ruled by market research, and standing guard at the narrow entrance to country radio is the radio consultant. It has been a decade since the death of Morgan’s second husband, Keith Whitley. In the song “Between Midnight and Tomorrow,” Morgan’s voice captures the grief of a woman sitting up ’til dawn, watching her drunken lover sleep. She’s now with the group Post Monroe that’s getting some pretty good recognition here in Nashville. From the description of Oral history interview with Lorrie Morgan; 1992 February 13; interview conducted by Paul Kingsbury. It includes recipes, photos fans have never seen and stories from Morgan’s life and career. I walk toward her and light up, secure in the knowledge that not even the governor of the state of Tennessee will tell Lorrie Morgan to snuff out her butt. Walker is still striking, the epitome of what the greatest generation would call a great beauty of her day. And I will always love Joe Galante. GS: Maybe somebody burned dinner and they hurled it off the bridge. “[The fans] are real people. Or my despair. “How can you call somebody on the phone at home when a woman’s cookin’ dinner for three or four kids, and say, ’I’m with such-and-such radio station, can you give me eight seconds to tell me what you think of this song?’ I’m gonna say, ’I hate the son-of-a-b—-, good-bye! Picture perfect: an interview with Lorrie Morgan Thu. This is the lady who walks up to me and cries and says, ’I just want to tell you thanks for putting out that song. . It’s fantatstic. They’re in my meet-and-greet every night. That is the Question is her cookbook and it’s out now. It’s a special offer kind of album for fans who come to the show, or they can buy it online. With Craig Kilborn, John Bloom, Julia Carson, Pat McGhehey. The complete version of this article is available in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Country Music, available on newsstands in mid-March or by subscription. But I’m glad that I did it.”. Never. At the time, she was cutting demos and working as a receptionist at Acuff-Rose. I don’t feel that today it’s my job to carry that on. I don’t know how long I’m going to keep it [laughs].”. In 1986, country star Lorrie Morgan married American country singer Keith Whitley.With immense talent and country cred, Morgan and Whitley were a … The gifted songwriter Cindy Walker sits at a table among friends. The official Lorrie Morgan page managed by “That’s when you find out if a song fits ya’ — if you can drive to it.”, Her voice gets quiet, almost pained. LM: [Laughs] I guess I think it’s what everybody thinks. In the small crowd spread out across the patio, the current living Hall of Famers mingle: Little Jimmy Dickens, Earl Scruggs, Roy Horton, Bud Wendell, Brenda Lee, and Jo Walker-Meador. We wanted it to be a classy album shoot. In a wide-ranging interview with Journal of Country Music editor Chris Dickinson, Morgan speaks with candor, humor, and a resolve born of tragedy and triumph, proving she is indeed a woman who has come to know her own strength. I’m at the age now where if I don’t still love it, I’m out! “It was a very emotional time,” she says. But this was a new kinda guy. Ten years on, Morgan still thinks of this good man, and his fatal failing. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. Lorrie Morgan's Spicy Hot Chicken Coop is closed and staff are isolating. Although on this day she makes no specific mention of any plans to part with her label, her frustration with the music business drenches her words. She made her own Opry debut at thirteen, an adolescent with knocking knees singing “Paper Roses” while her father bawled in the wings. Her mother was Anastasia "Anna" Paridon Trainor, who died in 2018. ’If I just wouldn’t have gone out of town, and I would have stayed, and Keith would be alive today, and . I didn’t feel responsible. Tracing a woman’s life through the colors of the outfits that she dons, the song was a haunting walk through the disintegration of a marriage: the desperate attempt to recapture initial passion (“I’m looking for something in red / Just like what I wore when I first turned his head”); the fear of infidelity; the death of romance that accompanies monogamy and children; and the insecurity that comes with aging (“Strapless and sequined and cut down to there / Just a size larger than I wore last year”). And you know, I thought, ’Why would he put us through this? Their medallions are strung around their necks like badges of endurance. Interview With Bridget Marks, Lorrie Morgan. If you try and say, “We’re going to make it better than Vern,” it’s not going to happen. “And all women go through the same crap.”. I’ve always been very open and honest with ’em about what I’m doing, what my life’s about, who I’m seein’. Through a publicist, the parting will be described as an amicable one. Her son, Jesse — by her second husband, the late Keith Whitley — is in seventh grade. The woman who penned such classic country songs as “Cherokee Maiden” and “You Don’t Know Me” is smartly turned out in her fall colors, obliging a classic custom from another time by wearing dress gloves on her fragile hands. Gary James' Interview With Lorrie Morgan Her father was a Country Music Legend. Lorrie Morgan gives her information on new tunes, a wine collection & her son, Jesse Keith Whitley\'s new music. And that was always my big concern — what are my children gonna think when they read this? Her own music career had yet to catch fire. Up close, Morgan’s platinum beauty is nothing less than stunning, her delicate bones so perfectly wrought it’s hard to tear your eyes from them. If I didn’t love it, I wouldn’t be doing it. “From bein’ a little girl believin’ that romance really existed, pretending like I was Doris Day on the back of my horse singing ’Secret Love.'”). She finds it and recites the rest, her voice bearing down on each word: “Lord how I need him here / Just to feel him near and hear him breathin’ / But still the night goes on and on / Another lonely song I’m singin’.” She pauses, pondering the words. 4,010 talking about this. She slips through the crowd, cutting a gleaming swath of star power among the subdued suits. I love Joe Galante. How do you approach covering a standard in order to make it your own? “Nine times out of ten a person’s gotta be riding in the car, by themselves, radio full-blast,” she says. Morgan inhabits a strange space in country music: She stands with one foot in an earlier time, the other on the increasingly shaky ground of contemporary country. Although “No Show Jones” has long been flung around as a comic moniker, the grim reality that inspired George Jones’s nickname was no joke to those who experienced the repercussions firsthand. I’ve held onto “Spilt Milk” for at least 12 years. I ache for a cigarette and finally locate the de facto smoking lounge: three women firing up out on the edge of the manicured stretch of lawn. She has been a bona fide mainstream star for the last ten. They married and the union produced son Jesse. LM: [Laughs] That’s what I think! She smokes and laughs her raspy laugh, gestures with her hands, bores down physically close to make an adamant point, jokes and lets fly with a few four-letter words. I spoke with Morgan about the new albums and more before she embarked on a concert tour. Against the weepy steel of “Good As I Was to You,” she nailed the disillusionment of another love gone bad. And it’s gotten so far away from it that nobody knows what’s real anymore. All rights reserved. She has survived a hysterectomy and financial difficulties. Dec 30, 2019 - Explore Wendy Mathews's board "Lorrie Morgan" on Pinterest. I shall think on them no more.”, A few weeks later I sit transcribing the interview tapes late into the night. If you’ve been waiting patiently, your persistence is about to be rewarded with not one, but two new albums from Morgan. When you open it up, some it’s a little sexier than most. LM: Kris Kristofferson told me, “Don’t you ever record an album without one or two of your songs on it.” I will always remember those words. Recently Lorrie released a new project through Country Crossing Records titled A Moment In Time. He, along with God, allowed me to make a lot of my dreams come true. You never get over losing somebody who was — hell — the love of your life.”, The tough part, she says, was the guilt beneath the grief that came in the wake of his death. I loved the way you did it.” That’s all – no competition there [laughs]. It took me a long time to realize that. The second album, A Picture of Me (Goldenlane) takes an unusual approach to the greatest hits concept with all new recordings of some of Morgan’s most beloved songs, alongside cover versions of some of her personal favorites. Sitting on a stool that night, a guitar in her lap and leaning quietly into the microphone, Morgan had brought the house down with spare interpretations of a number of classic country hits, among them a haunted, broken reading of “Apartment #9,” Tammy Wynette’s first single. . That’s how I wanted to do it. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Two People in Love - Lorrie Morgan on AllMusic - 2006 People call them cover tunes. March 17, 2016 by Gregg Shapiro. She is a petite woman in a tailored skirt-suit and high-heeled slingbacks, the sort of knock-out power outfit Nicole Sheridan used to wear on Knot’s Landing. www.throwbackcountrymusicpodcast.com Be sure to "like" our Facebook page "Throwback Country Music Podcast" 21:15. A few weeks later we talk by phone, and Lorrie Morgan is making fudge. “How Does It Feel” is the current single and we’re getting a lot of great airplay, a lot of good response. “I Guess You Had to Be There” chronicled a woman torn by her husband’s infidelity; Morgan avoided the maudlin for the bitter burn, bearing down into the syllables as she conveyed the death of a marriage in all its pain and humiliation. I can’t do it. That’s the kind of person I can relate to. scary to me as a young girl.”. Lorrie Morgan’s Turbulent Personal Life. But in the timeline of the song, it doesn’t really give it time to be a baby. That’s the kind of person I want to sit back and listen to, because that’s the inspiration.” It’s no accident that the standout track on her new release To Get to You is “Another Lonely Song,” the 1973 Tammy hit that Wynette co-wrote with legendary countrypolitan producer Billy Sherrill and songwriting powerhouse Norro Wilson. I could not believe the people at that stage that knew every word to every song. I do have a lot of gay friends in my fan club. I hear myself wrap up a long, digressive diatribe with the crescendo, “We’re going to hell in this culture.”. The two got married in 1979 to a marriage that will only last to three years. It’s just my way of  saying, “Vern, this is a badass song [laughs], and I want to record it.” Same way with the Patsy Cline song “Strange.” I’ve loved it since I was a little girl. Aired July 5, 2004 - 21:00 ET. Lorrie Morgan once recalled in her interview with The Tennessean how the little Morgan Anastasia looked at Whitley and said, “Would you adopt me?” and Whitley just started crying and said to her, “Honey, I would love to adopt you.” THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. In a town where both its Music Row and alternative music scenes have refined the art of empty social chit-chat, Lorrie Morgan emerges as that most singular of individuals: Intense in conversation, she is a woman who seems to have no time to waste on small talk. I could not believe the people at that stage that knew every word to every song. 7.]. See more ideas about lorrie morgan, country music, country singers. Among the top female country stars of the 1990s, her hit recordings include "Five Minutes," and "What Part of No." The rag mags. Things that I really love. Daughter of Grand Ole Opry star George Morgan, she made her Opry debut at age 13. Chris Dickinson is on staff at the Country Music Hall of Fame, where she is the editor of the Journal of Country Music. You couldn’t do it. You can’t stop a person who’s on the road to destruction, because they have to say ’I don’t want to self-destruct. Now … Although it falls short of being a definitive collection, The Essential Lorrie Morgan contains a handful of her greatest hits -- including "Dear Me," "Back in Your Arms Again" and "I Didn't Know My Own Strength" -- plus a number of great album tracks and rarities that give a good idea of her artistic range. We’ve had him for about six and a half years now. “Media,” she says bluntly. March 17, 2016  Lorrie Morgan is equipped for sun and fun in a white blouse, bluejeans, and bare feet circa spring 2013. The songs you'll find on this album aren't the normal country fare fans might expect from Morgan. She hit the road on a long series of lonely tour dates, trying to establish herself. Would we be as happy as I always thought we were going to be? Jesse Keith Whitley talks new music, remembers late Keith Whitley (Includes interview) Email What the Globe, what the Enquirer have to print. 22, in Baraboo, WI at HCGWD Events Center on Apr. I let it go. Lorrie Morgan… “How Does It Feel” was a heartfelt and true to life song that I wrote. Join us today as we discuss where these artists … Behind her raw, husky twang I hear the metallic clang of pots and pans. I listen to myself eating up a minute of tape time, rambling on about the state of radio, the state of music, the state of America. The song is a classic, Wynette-ian epic of longing and heartbreak. I think there’s the element of the heart and the simplicity that’s missing in country music, what turned everybody on to it in the beginning. © 2021 Country Music Television, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This 1998 Lorrie Morgan offering, Secret Love, is dedicated to her late father. That doesn't mean it's not worth a listen, or maybe a number of them. Nobody can compete with Patsy. Check Lorrie.com for all of the latest tour dates & more! Directed by Scott Preston. The lushly orchestrated 1991 hit did what few current country power ballads are capable of doing: It told an actual, imperfect story. I just want to tell you thanks for throwing my little girl a flower from the stage. With a singing career that stretches back to her early teen years, she has nearly three decades invested in the music business. Jun 30, 2020 - Explore Edwin Acevedo's board "Lorrie Morgan", followed by 140 people on Pinterest. Among them I spot one of the great beauties of my day. 1995 PART 2 (The Top 50 Superstars of Country Music) John Anderson, John Berry, Dolly Parton, and Blackhawk! hell, he cared. One night they almost tipped the bus over. Was that the intention? My daughter-in-law (Ashlee Hewitt) wrote that. They are, but it’s my way of saying, “I want to sing your songs, because I love y’all. With musical roots that stretch back to her idols Loretta Lynn and the late Tammy Wynette, Lorrie Morgan remains one of the most gifted and resilient figures in contemporary country. We also have another Pit that a friend of mine gave me from Louisiana. The only research Morgan has to go on is what she’s seen and heard out there on the road for the last ten years. Seeing the price of fame early on stripped away any illusions she had about what a life in music could really cost. Order by 12/10 to receive orders before Christmas. But oddly enough her beauty is not what she leads with in person. “I was twenty, twenty-one years old, and got into a world that I’d never been involved with before. Jones would go missing in action, disappearing completely before shows, and Morgan and the band were left holding the bag. In Garth Fundis he had finally found a producer sympathetic and sensitive enough to understand his hardcore, traditional heartbreak. 1 617 en parlent. Published: Mar. GS: Letting You Go…Slow is mainly an album of cover versions, some of which will be familiar to listeners. . 23, in Wilmington, OH at The Murphy Theatre on June 4 and in Annapolis, MD at Rams Head On Stage on  Aug. “You knew she went through it,” she says about Wynette. I wish her well with her fudge, and Morgan laughs her smoky laugh. Ray, my biggest Pyrenees get his name from Ray Gibson in Life. I’m totally shocked because we really didn’t go in with this album with radio in mind at all. But you know, I certainly hope that the next seven to ten years brings back the simpler side of country music.”. We have never met before, but a cigarette habit is all you need to gain entry into this tight group hugging the fringe of the party. These people were so nice. If her father had given Morgan her first break, he had also shielded her from the ugly realities of the business. May 15, 2019. The second album. I have two Great Pyrenees. Published: Mar. “You can’t statistic through your whole life.”, I ask Morgan how she feels about her record label now, if that’s something she specifically wants to talk about. “I wonder from time to time, where would we be now, what would we be doing. It was the dawn of the 1980s, and that “new kinda guy” was then in the throes of brain-bending alcoholism and drug addiction. . Within her strongest cuts she has explored an adult view of things; at her best, she has chosen to record songs that capture the intrinsic confusion of the thing called love. I hear a pause, the clang of a pan. I want it.” I have a lifelong respect and wonderment about trains, I always have. Interview With Bridget Marks, Lorrie Morgan. With “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength,” Morgan’s voice rose and fell through the wounded, wiser lyrics, the careening guitars and assertive drum whaps mirroring the sound of a knocked-down woman standing back up again. Lorrie Morgan once recalled in her interview with The Tennessean how the little Morgan Anastasia looked at Whitley and said, “Would you adopt me?” and Whitley just started crying and said to her, “Honey, I would love to adopt you.”. Lorrie Morgan has lived the imperfect life as well, often under the harsh scrutiny of the tabloids. 30, 2020 at 11:40 PM CDT Country … It was just the simplicity. If you’ve been waiting patiently, your persistence is about to be rewarded with not one, but two new albums from Morgan. If you look at it from that perspective…I would never try and outdo a Vern Gosdin cut. I could not believe the people at that stage that knew every word to every song. It’s a greatest hits re-sung. And it’s gotten really far away from that. I have this one fella who, if he hears anything bad about me, he’ll call me on my cell phone. Very luckily, Liz Morin, here in Nashville, pitched me those songs, “There’s Something About Trains” and “Jesus & Hairspray,” last minute. “God-dang!” she cries. Always. Bridget Bardot was the actual inspiration. He says, “Larry, you have no idea the people that love you out there.” I’m glad I don’t because I’d have a head as big as my swimming pool if I did [laughs]. “That’s what the country artists have always had that they can’t get across to the label heads and to the radio programmers,” she says, intense again. She speaks of Tammy and her intensity deepens, her love of the late star a genuine thing. What sets the song apart is that it doesn’t reduce the equation to a simplistic Good Women, Bad Choices scenario. They went into the studio in California and cut all of these tracks and sent them to me in Nashville and I put my voice on them. See more ideas about lorrie morgan, country singers, country music. “That’s what I’d rather turn on! In a wide-ranging interview with Journal of Country Music editor Chris Dickinson, Morgan speaks with candor, humor, and a resolve born of tragedy … As it will turn out, it will also be her last release for BNA. And my children are old enough, and they’ve been conditioned by me very well. She worked nightclubs in town and toured with her father while still in high school, but when George Morgan died in 1975, the teenager lost not just a dad but her most trusted advisor. There is a warmth and immediacy to her, an agile mind and a palpable heart that have seldom been captured in the writing about her. For now, Morgan sounds unwilling to make the necessary concessions to adapt to the new country landscape. Morgan also speaks of the day she turned forty, the depression it originally caused and the empowerment in it that she has since found. Because if I’m dealin’ with it, I know she’s gotta be dealin’ with it. Apr 10, 2020 - Explore Judy Skau's board "Lorrie Morgan", followed by 118 people on Pinterest. If that’s the case, it could have been a baby. 1995 PART 2 (The Top 50 Superstars of Country Music) John Anderson, John Berry, Dolly Parton, and Blackhawk! LM: I don’t frickin’ know, to be honest [laughs]! THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. “It’s gotten really very technical,” she says when I ask her how the business has changed. For a woman who long ago accepted that there are no road maps in life, she has made her zig-zag path look like a seamless trajectory. But somewhere along the way the rules of the game changed on her. There’s not a prejudiced bone in my body, my friend. I loved Vern Gosdin. Like Tammy Wynette in “Stand By Your Man,” or Patty Loveless in “Here I Am,” Morgan evokes the subtler issues involved with loving the sinner but hating the sin. 15, in Hinckley, MN at Grand Casino on Apr. Morgan’s pop vernacular is a decidedly pre-rock one; she paid homage to it, in fact, with her 1998 release Secret Love, which included a batch of pop standards by the likes of George and Ira Gershwin and Jimmy Van Heusen.

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