The first, Letting You Go...Slow (Shanachie), is a fabulous mix of covers of classic tunes (“Ode To Billie Joe,” “Lay Lady Lay,” “Is It Raining At Your House”) with newer selections (“Slow,” “Something About Trains,” the Morgan original “How Does It Feel”), that is a most welcome return. For her, it has always been a simple and organic procedure. I wish I would have gone to a few [Al-Anon] meetings just to help me deal with the aftershock, because it devastates a person who thinks that they were a part of it. “The reality of it was that it was scarier than hell,” she says. He calls me Larry. She is candid, by turns wickedly funny and ardently serious, and seems to trust in the fact that twenty years in a hard business have taught her she can only be herself. “And all women go through the same crap.”. I just want to tell you thanks for throwing my little girl a flower from the stage. Morgan also speaks of the day she turned forty, the depression it originally caused and the empowerment in it that she has since found. I could not believe the people at that stage that knew every word to every song. But oddly enough her beauty is not what she leads with in person. She has often been portrayed in the press as something of an ice queen, an impenetrable beauty whose boyfriends get more ink than her unique voice. “’If I’d a just done this, if I’d a just done that.’ You get in your mind that if you would have done something different it would have helped them, when the truth of the matter is they are the only ones who can help themselves, ever. 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. I listen in that odd way you listen when you hear your own voice rambling, rising, falling, stumbling, reaching for the right word, picking up steam. 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. “Oh, what’s that big word Joe [Galante] uses all the time — research. I do have a lot of gay friends in my fan club. It is a world that Morgan no longer understands. People call them cover tunes. I love it and it immediately brought Tammy Wynette to mind. He gave me the shot in this business that no one else would give me. If you try and say, “We’re going to make it better than Vern,” it’s not going to happen. See more ideas about lorrie morgan, country singers, country music. “Yeah, I better shut up on that particular . “How Does It Feel” was a heartfelt and true to life song that I wrote. 1995 PART 2 (The Top 50 Superstars of Country Music) John Anderson, John Berry, Dolly Parton, and Blackhawk! “That’s when you find out if a song fits ya’ — if you can drive to it.”, Her voice gets quiet, almost pained. “Media,” she says bluntly. “I’m not willing to sacrifice what I’ve learned and what I’m about just to get played on radio,” she says. In a current country radio world where emphasis is placed on the flimsy highs of romance, Morgan’s sharpest material addresses not the skyward trajectory of love but the skidding stop: the moonlit romance that withers in the glare of the morning after, the blunt realities of in sickness and in health, the exits taken long before ’til death us do part. “You go in and sit down to a therapist and he helps you by his words, you feel better. .’ For a long time, I lived with that thinking. Now … One night they almost tipped the bus over. “It’s gotten really very technical,” she says when I ask her how the business has changed. When I mention this to Morgan she seizes on it, the conversation no longer about her but instead about Tammy Wynette. I didn’t name him – he already had his name when I got him. Music, It’s been five years since country diva Lorrie Morgan released a new studio album. Things that I really love. It’s been five years since country diva Lorrie Morgan released a new studio album. “I don’t think you ever quite get over losing somebody that special,” she says. If I didn’t love it, I wouldn’t be doing it. ’Here’s our research statistics.’ And I’m like, ’Who the hell is researchin’ this s—? However, what was supposed to be a happy family crumbled down when Whitley tragically died from alcohol poisoning three years after their marriage. That is the Question is her cookbook and it’s out now. She is the fifth child of country music singer George Morgan. 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. Lorrie Morgan knew the risks of entering a romantic relationship with Whitley. . “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. My manager said that a record label in California wanted to a side album and re-record the old songs and re-release it have it out there as a greatest hits (disc). “The ’ifs’ are the big wonderment of being married to an alcoholic, or involved with anybody with a drug addiction,” she says. So you turn on a radio and you listen to Tammy sing, ’Time won’t heal my memory / God, it’s killin’ me.'”. I held onto (Letting You Go…) “Slow” for about three years. Morgan’s decision to cover the song lured the reclusive Sherrill back into the studio to produce the track. Always. ©Copyright 2019 GoPride Networks. March 17, 2016  “And that’s what my music has always meant to me, to be able to go in and sing a song that Jane next door with five kids is dealin’ with. She attended Catholic schools in Music City and grew up with a backstage view of show business. With a singing career that stretches back to her early teen years, she has nearly three decades invested in the music business. . Her own Hall of Fame medal — nestled like a big locket in the scarf around her neck — looks to weigh more than all her delicate features combined. May 15, 2019. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. It has been a decade since the death of Morgan’s second husband, Keith Whitley. All rights reserved. www.throwbackcountrymusicpodcast.com Be sure to "like" our Facebook page "Throwback Country Music Podcast" 21:15. March 17, 2016 by Gregg Shapiro. 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. Beyond the Interview ( 6 ) 1h 34min 2014 ALL This exciting ninety-minute documentary DVD about country music legend Lorrie Morgan includes segments of her childhood, growing up backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, her road to stardom, and her much publicized personal life. I hear myself wrap up a long, digressive diatribe with the crescendo, “We’re going to hell in this culture.”. If that’s the case, it could have been a baby. They married and the union produced son Jesse. “I hate to walk into a record label and them pull out a piece of paper and say, ’Okay, here’s the statistics,'” she continues. 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. And it’s gotten really far away from that. .” she says softly. “That ain’t what life’s about. I can’t say that I’d go through it all again, not that particular part. And I will always love Joe Galante. I don’t know how long I’m going to keep it [laughs].”. Among the top female country stars of the 1990s, her hit recordings include "Five Minutes," and "What Part of No." All of the dogs’ names are taken from movies. 15, in Hinckley, MN at Grand Casino on Apr. A few weeks later we talk by phone, and Lorrie Morgan is making fudge. At the time, she was cutting demos and working as a receptionist at Acuff-Rose. She speaks of Tammy and her intensity deepens, her love of the late star a genuine thing. Would you please say something about your dogs? That’s probably going to be my next single. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. Not your typical, “Okay, smile! Regardless of what comes tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now. 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.”. 1992 Feb. 13. LM: I don’t frickin’ know, to be honest [laughs]! 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”). That doesn't mean it's not worth a listen, or maybe a number of them. . She recorded, with minor success, for a number of labels: Columbia, ABC/Hickory, and MCA. Are you aware of a following in the LGBT community? Weezy was our little rescue Pit. 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. Directed by Scott Preston. That’s the kind of person I can relate to. But in the timeline of the song, it doesn’t really give it time to be a baby. 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. On the patio, beneath a tent, there is a luncheon to honor the new Country Music Hall of Fame inductees: Dolly Parton, Conway Twitty, and Johnny Bond. It’s a special offer kind of album for fans who come to the show, or they can buy it online. Lorrie Morgan… LM: You approach it very graciously. These people were so nice. If you’ve been waiting patiently, your persistence is about to be rewarded with not one, but two new albums from Morgan. I have two Great Pyrenees. ” she says, momentarily drifting back. She is one of the most distinctive singers of contemporary country, a subtle interpreter who is at her best when explicating sorrows large and small. She’s a woman.” Morgan pauses. My daughter-in-law (Ashlee Hewitt) wrote that. Lorrie Morgan gives her information on new tunes, a wine collection & her son, Jesse Keith Whitley\'s new music. “Nine times out of ten a person’s gotta be riding in the car, by themselves, radio full-blast,” she says. Gregg Shapiro: Lorrie, I’d like to talk about your new album Letting You Go…Slow from the outside in, beginning with the retro album cover and hairstyle. Ten years on, Morgan still thinks of this good man, and his fatal failing. Aired July 5, 2004 - 21:00 ET. That’s how I wanted to do it. “It’s like going in and sitting down to a therapist,” she says. There’s never a day that goes by that I don’t think about Keith, ever. May 15, 2019. Keith’s manager, Don Light, had warned her early on. Lorrie Morgan maintained her recording pace in the new millennium, releasing collections in 2002, 2004, 2009 and 2010. Her son, Jesse — by her second husband, the late Keith Whitley — is in seventh grade. And I know for a lot of us, it’s scary. “I wouldn’t trade those days for anything because it taught me a lot, and it definitely taught me what I didn’t want to have in my life. She’s brought out a lot of the puppy still in him. Jun 9, 2019 - Explore Cindy's board "Lorrie Morgan" on Pinterest. You couldn’t do it. Through a publicist, the parting will be described as an amicable one. by Gregg Shapiro, Interviews & Voices He’s hilarious. 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. Jones would go missing in action, disappearing completely before shows, and Morgan and the band were left holding the bag. 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. They’re in my meet-and-greet every night. Recently Lorrie released a new project through Country Crossing Records titled A Moment In Time. Lorrie Morgan isn’t just a country music icon, she’s also a major foodie, even calling food her “love language.” To Eat or Not to Eat. “Oh, I gotta start all over,” says the woman who is no stranger to beginning again, the woman who long ago embraced the importance of the journey over the destination. As it will turn out, it will also be her last release for BNA. We also have another Pit that a friend of mine gave me from Louisiana. “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.'”). Best Friends Make The Climb Together; Kyle Marvin, Saint Motel checks in to Chicago; A. J. 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INTERVIEW: Lorrie Morgan Lorrie Morgan is a name synonymous with amazing music and heartfelt lyrics that listeners can relate to in their own personal lives. 30, 2020 at 11:40 PM CDT Country … © 2021 Country Music Television, Inc. All Rights Reserved. “Oh man, they threw bottles, tomatoes, apples — anything they could find when we had to announce that [George] wasn’t going to be there. The Color of Roses, released in March 2002, encapsulates Morgan's remarkable career while celebrating her ability to move live audiences with her music. In 1986, country star Lorrie Morgan married American country singer Keith Whitley.With immense talent and country cred, Morgan and Whitley were a … 7.]. You know, people aren’t what they appear to be in their pictures anymore. I have this one fella who, if he hears anything bad about me, he’ll call me on my cell phone. With Craig Kilborn, John Bloom, Julia Carson, Pat McGhehey. 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. Check Lorrie.com for all of the latest tour dates & more! 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. Gregg Shapiro is both a literary figure and a music and literary critic. That they don’t deserve not even an inkling of thought. I wish her well with her fudge, and Morgan laughs her smoky laugh. While some of her oeuvre is riddled with stiff missteps — the brittle, forced bravado of “My Night to Howl” comes to mind — she has beneath her belt a passel of remarkable interpretations that stand as antidotes to the current glorification of gooey sentiment. I want to get better.'”. After he died at age 51 in 1975, she took over his band and went on the road. It is the fall afternoon after the CMA awards, here at the governor’s mansion in Nashville. “I’m going to hell with this fudge, I’m gonna tell you that,” she says. Interview With Bridget Marks, Lorrie Morgan. 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. But he just kind of showed his fright in another way.”, Although she occasionally seems weary recounting her history one more time (“I started workin’ on Ralph [Emery’s] morning show again, and then got back into Nashville Now, and you know, blah, blah, blah, and blah, blah, blah”), the George Jones tour still evokes genuine emotion twenty years on. She slips through the crowd, cutting a gleaming swath of star power among the subdued suits. It was so simple, lyrically, everything. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. If you look at it from that perspective…I would never try and outdo a Vern Gosdin cut. I mention a show of hers I had seen a few years before, in which she had included an unplugged segment. (Shanachie), is a fabulous mix of covers of classic tunes (“Ode To Billie Joe,” “Lay Lady Lay,” “Is It Raining At Your House”) with newer selections (“Slow,” “Something About Trains,” the Morgan original “How Does It Feel”), that is a most welcome return. Musical guest Lorrie Morgan during an interview with host Johnny Carson on April 25, 1991 -- Obtenez des photos d'actualité haute résolution de qualité sur Getty Images And now, it’s a little bit hard because to me it’s kind of gotten away from the heart, if that makes sense. Get all the details on Lorrie Morgan, watch interviews and videos, and see what else Bing knows Ray, my biggest Pyrenees get his name from Ray Gibson in Life. ’If I just wouldn’t have gone out of town, and I would have stayed, and Keith would be alive today, and . Or my despair. Lorrie Morgan’s Turbulent Personal Life. I might not hear from him for a year and then he’ll call me and say, “Girl, I’ve got to tell you, I took up for you today” [laughs]. If I hated it, I’d get out. 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. Loretta Lynn Morgan (born June 27, 1959) is an American country music singer. Seeing the price of fame early on stripped away any illusions she had about what a life in music could really cost. THE LORRIE MORGAN INTERVIEW: THE BEST OF SERIES. (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. 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. GS: How did you go about selecting new songs, such as “Jesus & Hairspray,” “Spilt Milk” and “Something About Trains,” for the disc? “What’s sad is all these people that I’ve looked up to for the last ten years, I’m seeing them be suckered into this paper business . Serving the Chicago gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities. In a wide-ranging interview with Journal of Country Music editor Chris Dickinson, Morgan speaks with candor, humor, and a resolve born of tragedy … GS: In 1992, at my friends Allison and Gay’s commitment ceremony, “Something In Red” was the one they chose for their first dance, and it’s the song they dance to every year on their anniversary. “[The fans] are real people. She’s now with the group Post Monroe that’s getting some pretty good recognition here in Nashville. 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. She is the daughter of George Morgan, widow of Keith Whitley, and ex-wife of Jon Randall and Sammy Kershaw, all of whom are also country music singers.Morgan has been active as a singer since the age of 13, and charted her first single in 1979. . 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. It’s more technology. Dec 30, 2019 - Explore Wendy Mathews's board "Lorrie Morgan" on Pinterest. Would we be as happy as I always thought we were going to be? I guess maybe I did know (about it) because I have a very good, close gay friend. 1995 PART 2 (The Top 50 Superstars of Country Music) John Anderson, John Berry, Dolly Parton, and Blackhawk! A Kentucky bluegrass prodigy who’d apprenticed with Ralph Stanley, Whitley was a rising hard-country singer and a binge alcoholic when he met Morgan in the mid-’80s. I spoke with Morgan about the new albums and more before she embarked on a concert tour. It’s a greatest hits re-sung. She opens up the smoking clutch to me, introduces her friends. 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. And the music business has really become more of a business than what it was originally meant to be. The rag mags. 4,010 talking about this. Thu. He, along with God, allowed me to make a lot of my dreams come true. The first. LM: It wasn’t hard because these songs were great. Every seven to ten years, this business has gone through a severe change. And that’s not the case. She has been a bona fide mainstream star for the last ten. When you open it up, some it’s a little sexier than most. “Media. Lorrie Morgan is equipped for sun and fun in a white blouse, bluejeans, and bare feet circa spring 2013. As always, her voice and emotional delivery are up to the test, even for old ballads and standards. I said, “Ashlee, if you love me, you’ll let me hold that song until I’m ready to record.” And she did. She made her own Opry debut at thirteen, an adolescent with knocking knees singing “Paper Roses” while her father bawled in the wings. GS: Letting You Go…Slow is mainly an album of cover versions, some of which will be familiar to listeners. It was just the simplicity. 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.” However, what was supposed to be a happy family crumbled down when Whitley tragically died from alcohol poisoning three years after their marriage. “And they don’t deserve my thoughts or my time. So, I don’t know. It took me a long time to realize that. 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. They know not to believe what they read, unless I tell ’em to believe it. Morgan is here to represent her late father, the Hall of Famer George Morgan. Lookin’ back, he was just as scared as I am and everybody else is now. Lorrie Morgan has lived the imperfect life as well, often under the harsh scrutiny of the tabloids. What sets the song apart is that it doesn’t reduce the equation to a simplistic Good Women, Bad Choices scenario. Lorrie Morgan’s first marriage was to Ron Gaddis, a musician in George Jones’ road band. I’m totally shocked because we really didn’t go in with this album with radio in mind at all. 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. Her mother was Anastasia "Anna" Paridon Trainor, who died in 2018. Apr 10, 2020 - Explore Judy Skau's board "Lorrie Morgan", followed by 118 people on Pinterest. [Lorrie Morgan performs in Calumet, MI at The Calumet Theatre on Apr. 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. Published: Mar. “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! “How Does It Feel” is the current single and we’re getting a lot of great airplay, a lot of good response. See more ideas about Lorrie morgan, Country music artists, Country singers. I let it go. “Whewwssh,” she breathes with a shuddering air. He was dealin’ with his own damn demons, you know? LM: [Laughs] That’s what I think! I hear a pause, the clang of a pan. Behind her raw, husky twang I hear the metallic clang of pots and pans. She can’t stay for the luncheon; her son has a game this afternoon that she must attend. 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. I’m at the age now where if I don’t still love it, I’m out! I want to tell you, it’s the best we’ve ever been treated at a show. Amadeo Fusco returns on stage with Mars/Venus; talks Martian/Martian and Venutian/Venutian audiences experiences; Seperation Anxiety: Mutts lead singer addresses coming out process on new LP; Slave to love: an interview with gay writer, Good golly, Miss Molly: an interview with. Who are these people that you are trusting to research? When I heard, [sings] “There’s just something about trains,” I said, “Say no more, I’ll take it. Order by 12/10 to receive orders before Christmas. And it’s gotten so far away from it that nobody knows what’s real anymore. I could not believe the people at that stage that knew every word to every song. She hit the road on a long series of lonely tour dates, trying to establish herself. She is an oddity of sorts, a rarity in the business, an artist who is able to infuse a traditional country sensibility into even her most pop-leaning tunes. 16 and in Mahnomen, MN at Shooting Star Casino on Apr. She saw how a loving audience can transform into an ugly rabble. I could not believe the people at that stage that knew every word to every song. . Interview With Bridget Marks, Lorrie Morgan. GS: I’m glad you’ve been embraced in that way. 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. There is a dark grain to her voice, a fine, sandpaper edge that imbues her strong, clear pipes with a subtle grit. It was on the road with Jones that Morgan came to understand the dark side of fame. I want to do this while I’ve still got it. But Whitley has always treated Lorrie Morgan well. She has watched as her personal life has been dissected in the media, watched as every date and relationship has been bluntly reduced to a screaming, one-dimensional headline. At age 13, Lorrie Morgan made her first performance on the Grand Ole Opry, when her father brought her onstage to perform "Paper Roses". The lushly orchestrated 1991 hit did what few current country power ballads are capable of doing: It told an actual, imperfect story.