This mostly upbeat ode to the trials of being an (in this case perpetually pregnant) housewife hints at some of the same struggles Loretta Lynn would paint a darker picture of on 1980’s “Pregnant Again” – what the American Dream looks like when you’re most woman, basically. The pair duet on this grungy track, Lynn sounding as vibrant and forceful as she had 40 years prior. It was hard to imagine an odder couple than Jack White and Loretta Lynn when they began collaborating in the early aughts – but the resulting album, Van Lear Rose, was not only a commercial blockbuster and critically acclaimed, it marked a stripped-down, hard-edged, and uncompromising artistic renaissance for the then-72-year-old Lynn.
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