After recording her gospel album Bridges in 2015, Lynn contracted pneumonia a month later and died in a Nashville hospital.
Bridges featured a collection of 12 country gospel tracks. One song, Drift Away Gospel, was penned by Anderson's domestic partner Mentor Williams. The song was a gospel reworking of the original track first recorded in the 1970s.
"He rewrote it for our little church in Taos, New Mexico. We’d been singing it in church for a couple of years. The congregation loves it, and I hope our audience loves it," Anderson reflected.
Bridges marks Anderson’s very first Gospel project, something her fans have been asking about for a while. “I’ve been asked before when I was going to do one, and it just never happened. I got baptized at church — dunked in the Rio Grande River — so this just came about naturally.”
One cut, Wanderer’s Prayer, has lyrics that struck home, she said. “I’ve been so blessed in my life that things have kind of seemed to fall in place for me. I just have to keep on the right path, and not jaunt off to the left or the right. I love how the lyrics speak of asking the Lord to keep me in the right direction. That’s where the song hits me.” [See video below.]
Anderson during her lifetime divorced twice, losing custody of all her children over her intemperate outbursts. She then maintained a "committed relationship" with Williams until her death. Problems with alcohol came to public attention later in life and she was treated at the Betty Ford center.
Despite her difficulties, it's quite obvious that her Bridges songs are voiced with sincerity, implying that she went to the right place at death. The fact that she was dunked in the Rio Grande implies a probable adult decision to turn her life over to Jesus.
We don't know when she received adult baptism, but we know that, as a horse breeder, she spent quite a few years in Taos, NM, with her roommate, Williams, while overseeing her horse ranch in Texas.
Bridges featured a collection of 12 country gospel tracks. One song, Drift Away Gospel, was penned by Anderson's domestic partner Mentor Williams. The song was a gospel reworking of the original track first recorded in the 1970s.
"He rewrote it for our little church in Taos, New Mexico. We’d been singing it in church for a couple of years. The congregation loves it, and I hope our audience loves it," Anderson reflected.
Bridges marks Anderson’s very first Gospel project, something her fans have been asking about for a while. “I’ve been asked before when I was going to do one, and it just never happened. I got baptized at church — dunked in the Rio Grande River — so this just came about naturally.”
One cut, Wanderer’s Prayer, has lyrics that struck home, she said. “I’ve been so blessed in my life that things have kind of seemed to fall in place for me. I just have to keep on the right path, and not jaunt off to the left or the right. I love how the lyrics speak of asking the Lord to keep me in the right direction. That’s where the song hits me.” [See video below.]
Anderson during her lifetime divorced twice, losing custody of all her children over her intemperate outbursts. She then maintained a "committed relationship" with Williams until her death. Problems with alcohol came to public attention later in life and she was treated at the Betty Ford center.
Despite her difficulties, it's quite obvious that her Bridges songs are voiced with sincerity, implying that she went to the right place at death. The fact that she was dunked in the Rio Grande implies a probable adult decision to turn her life over to Jesus.
We don't know when she received adult baptism, but we know that, as a horse breeder, she spent quite a few years in Taos, NM, with her roommate, Williams, while overseeing her horse ranch in Texas.
