Signs of Life 2004

Even with Brian Wilson’s epic SMiLE hitting shelves in 2004, 69-year-old songwriter Lynn was the year’s greatest comeback story. Aided by the no-frills production of Jack White, Van Lear Rose is a truly unique record—country gold meets early Led Zeppelin; Americana that, at once, sounds futuristic as a manned mission to Saturn and ancient as the Appalachian mountains.