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Gender

Roles, expectations and the fights over who assigns them.

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Coal Miner’s Daughter

Loretta Lynn · 1970

Coal Miner's Daughter is Loretta Lynn’s sixteenth solo studio album, released 4 January 1971 by Decca Records. Five of its eleven tracks were recorded earlier for other albums, including the title song, cut 1 October 1969. It was recorded across four sessions at Bradley's Barn in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, produced by Owen Bradley, engineered by Jim Williamson, and mastered by Darrell Johnson. The ensemble features steel guitar, Dobro, banjo, multiple bass players, and The Jordanaires’ background vocals. The title track reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart in 1970 and became Lynn’s first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 (No. 83). It inspired her 1976 autobiography and the 1980 Oscar-winning film.

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Pearl

Janis Joplin · 1971

Pearl is Janis Joplin’s final studio album, recorded between late August and early October 1970 in Los Angeles with producer Paul A. Rothchild. It was released posthumously in January 1971 after her death on October 4, 1970. Though unfinished, sufficient completed material existed to assemble the LP. It features her number-one hit 'Me and Bobby McGee', original songs 'Move Over' and 'Mercedes Benz', and covers including 'Trust Me' and 'Get It While You Can'. Joplin approved and arranged all nine tracks she sings on. She did not record vocals for 'Buried Alive in the Blues'. The album has a more polished sound than her earlier work with Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Kozmic Blues Band, due to Rothchild’s expertise and the Full Tilt Boogie Band. Many songs were first recorded live on stage in Canada two months before the LA sessions. It was crafted at Sunset Sound Recorders to showcase her extraordinary vocal talents.

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Glassworks

Philip Glass · 1982

Glassworks is a six-movement chamber work Philip Glass wrote for the recording studio after his large concert and stage pieces, released by CBS in 1982 on LP and on cassette, each with its own mix. It was meant to bring his music to a wider audience, and it did: the album sold well and made his name widely known.

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20 Golden Greats

Buddy Holly, The Crickets · 1978

20 Golden Greats was first issued in Britain in 1978, collecting recordings associated with Buddy Holly and the Crickets from 1956–58. It also circulated as Buddy Holly Lives. The release date belongs to the retrospective, not to a newly assembled performing group.

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808s & Heartbreak

Kanye West · 2008

Released in 2008, 808s & Heartbreak followed the death of Kanye West's mother and the end of his engagement. His fourth studio album shifts much of its emphasis from rapping to singing. That change makes the handling of the voice the central question of the record.

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A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse

Faces · 1971

Faces' third album was their second release of 1971. Glyn Johns shared production duties, helping shape a programme shorter and more concentrated than its predecessors. Rod Stewart's growing solo profile is part of the context, but Ronnie Lane's three lead vocals make the group's broader identity essential.