The 1970 album takes its name from the song that swallowed it whole, and that is the honest way to describe what happened. “Rose Garden” the single went to number one on the country chart for five weeks, reached the pop top three, sold a million, and won a Grammy, the kind of result a record company builds a whole campaign around. Except nobody had. The track that became Lynn Anderson’s defining performance started life as an album cut, not a planned single, and the version everyone now knows almost arrived looking different in more ways than one. The rest of the record is the work of a singer in command of her instrument, but it lives, fairly or not, in orbit around three minutes that were never supposed to carry this much weight. Start there, with the song that named the album by accident of how big it got.
Tracklist
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