Dear Sister is the tenth studio album from bluegrass musician Claire Lynch. The album reached No. 9 on the Bluegrass Album chart in Billboard magazine.[2] The track, "Dear Sister", won the 2014 International Bluegrass Music Association award for Song of the Year.[3]

Dear Sister
Studio album by
Released2013
GenreBluegrass
LabelCompass Records
Claire Lynch chronology
Whatcha Gonna Do
(2009)
Dear Sister
(2013)
North by South
(2016)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

History

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The song "Dear Sister" is based on author Frank Anderson Chappel and his 2002 book Dear Sister: Civil War Letters to a Sister in Alabama.[4] The sister detailed in the book is an ancestor of author Chappel.[4] Album co-writer Louisa Branscomb also has a connection similar to that of Chappel. Branscomb has a great-great aunt who had four brothers in the civil war, all of whom wrote letters to her which she saved after being found in the 20th Century.[4]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."How Many Moons"3:18
2."Doin' Time"4:37
3."Once the Teardrops Start To Fall"4:27
4."Need Someone"3:29
5."Dear Sister"4:43
6."I'll Be Alright Tomorrow"2:54
7."Patch of Blue"3:09
8."That Kind of Love"3:56
9."Everybody Knows I've Been Crying"3:51
10."Buttermilk Road / the Arbours"3:48

Chart performance

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Chart (2013) Peak
position
US Top Bluegrass Albums (Billboard)[5] 9

References

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  1. ^ Dear Sister at AllMusic
  2. ^ "Chart History - Claire Lynch". Billboard. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Bluegrass musician Claire Lynch to play Trails, Tales and Tunes". The Western Star. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  4. ^ a b c Wake, Matt (19 August 2014). "Claire Lynch, bluegrass star, former Huntsville resident tells story behind 'Dear Sister' LP". AL.com. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  5. ^ "Claire Lynch Chart History (Top Bluegrass Albums)". Billboard.