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Lori McKenna's 'People Get Old' Immortalizes Everyday Intimacy

Lori McKenna is a master of the eloquently plainspoken gut punch. Hear the first single from The Tree, out July 20.
Lori McKenna's <em>The Tree</em> comes out July 20.

Some relationships in our lives are so vital, constant and ordinary that it seems nearly impossible for any expression of affection to do them justice. Thankfully, immortalizing everyday intimacy is a specialty of Lori McKenna.

"People Get Old," the first song the Newproduced by ), was inspired by her hardworking father, who looked after six kids on his own when McKenna's mother passed.

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