Adrianna will spend Memorial Day weekend at the home of one of her
childhood idols, when she performs at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in Hurricane
Mills, Tennessee, on May 25 and 26.
“Loretta Lynn has always been one of my favorites,” Freeman said. “I
love the stories she tells in her songs, and she is one of a handful of
female artists who influenced my own songwriting.”
The Ranch, which is Lynn’s home as well as a popular tourist
attraction, includes shops, live entertainment and a museum dedicated to
the singer’s career. Other artists are scheduled to perform there over
the Memorial Day weekend, including Joe Nichols, Joey + Rorey, and
Loretta Lynn herself.
But for Freeman, one of the few African American female singers in
country music, the opportunity is more personal than most, because of
certain similarities between Lynn’s early life and her own.
“Loretta Lynn’s father was a coal miner who struggled to support his
family in rural Kentucky; my dad was a sharecropper in the South,”
Freeman said. “Ms. Lynn had a hard time getting radio stations to listen
to her music, and so did I. I am not comparing my singing to hers; she
will always be the Queen of Country Music. But she has been such an
inspiration, the way she kept going when times were hard.”
Adrianna’s EP, “Either You Do or You Don’t”, promoted to world radio by Musik and Film’s promotional division,
Musik Radio Promotions, is #3 on the Cashbox Music Charts.
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