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"Buy This Town" is full of nostalgia for McKenna's working-class childhood. (She died when McKenna was seven years old.) "Still Down Here," a co-write with Dean, is full of understated, and almost unstated, pain, balancing fantasies of a peaceful afterlife with the rough realities of her grief at her mother's passing. The album is named in honor of McKenna's mother, and the most emotional tracks deal with her mom's life and death.
Dean produces and with the exception of "You Get a Love Song" - a track with a big country-rock sound that feels like a radio hit, complete with a screaming guitar solo - he keeps the sound true to McKenna's quiet muse. On half the tunes here, McKenna collaborates with Natalie Hemby, Barry Dean, and Andrew Dorff, Nashville writers she met while she was making Unglamorous. Signature Sounds, her longtime indie home, has picked her up for Lorraine. When Warner went through one of their periodic shakeups, McKenna was dropped. The glossy production of the ironically titled Unglamorous didn't really suit her intimate style. Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, and Keith Urban also recorded her tunes, leading to a one-off contract with Warner Bros. Faith Hill cut three McKenna tunes on her Fireflies album, including the title track. Gauthier, a fellow Boston-based songwriter, moved to Music City and played McKenna's songs for her publisher. After writing folky, well-crafted, heart-rending tunes for almost a decade, she became a Nashville sensation thanks to her pal Mary Gauthier.
Four years back, Lori McKenna had a brief flirtation with the major-label side of the music business.
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