20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn

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Total Tracks: 12   Total Length: 32:45

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20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn is an excellent overview of the two singers’ work together during the 1970s, containing 12 of their Top Ten country duets (five of which topped the country charts). It was an incredible run that made Twitty and Lynn the most commercially successful country duet partners of all time, in spite of the fact that they were never romantically linked (a rarity in the world of male-female country duets). Digitally remastered sound and liner notes by Todd Everett cinch this as a package well worth picking up. – Steve Huey