White helped introduce Lynn to a whole new audience by producing the country queen’s 2004 LP Van Lear Rose, which went on to win the Grammy for Best Country Album. K.G.īy the time Lynn and Jack White are howling “And a pitcher to go…” at song’s end, “Portland, Oregon” has earned its place as country music’s most thrashing duet, a hypnotic, skronky, and surprisingly seductive collab between a genre icon and a then 28-year-old guitarslinger. The fire crept over to the pop chart, as well, and the two singers recorded nine more albums over the next decade. We wasn’t lovers.” But even if it was all make believe, they sang it with enough passion that sparked an ember on the charts, propelling it all the way to Number One on Billboard’s Country chart. “And there’s nothin’ cold as ashes after the fire is gone.” “Everybody thought me and Conway had a thing going because of the songs we recorded,” Lynn told NPR in 2010. “Love is where you find it when you find no love at home,” they belt over twangy steel guitar. Fittingly, their first single, “After the Fire Is Gone” was about finding a spark with each other and chasing it (even if the characters in the song were technically cheating on their spouses). Lynn and Twitty knew they had something special from the beginning, when they released We Only Make Believe, their first collaborative LP, in 1971. Bailey/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images ‘After the Fire Is Gone’ (Conway Twitty).

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