Lorrie Morgan Needs Hubby Who Can Take The Heat

Nashville star Lorrie Morgan says she now knows why actress Elizabeth Taylor has been married “seven or eight times.”

She contends it is because of the position Taylor has attained.

“You never know if somebody loves you for who you are inside and not what you are,” says Morgan, who, at 37, has been wed three times and is currently single, having dated celebrities like Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman and Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson.

Asked if she feels that the limelight of stardom has been a problem in her private life, Morgan says yes and no.

“I think it’s going to take a strong man to be with me, one who can handle whatever the press may say,” she says. “I think there are a lot of reasons for failed relationships, and I can’t blame it all on me, and I can’t blame it all on them (her male companions). But it would be hard to be with me.”

The problem is not that she is “not easy to get along with,” she says. Rather, it is her prominent position. She compares herself with a waitress whom a man may meet and fall in love with and implies that the waitress is in the better position to develop a meaningful relationship.

By contrast, she says, “I’ve established a little success, and it’s hard for me to meet someone and have them say ‘I love you’ and not question if they really love me or they love what I’m about.

“Once the curtain comes down and the cameras quit flashing, are you going to love me in my sweat pants without any makeup on and walking around in my big ol’ socks? And I guess I get into that phase where I question that, and I create situations maybe - I have in the past - to see if they can handle me in those situations. And that’s wrong of me to do that.”

She says it will now take a “strong man” to “convince me (that he’s truly in love), first off, and then secondly to handle the kind of lifestyle that I’ve become accustomed to,” where there is “always commotion, always something going on.

Her one marriage that didn’t end in divorce, her second, was to fellow country star Keith Whitley, who died in 1989.

Oslin back with dance album

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter K.T. Oslin, the memorable ‘80s Lady who meandered off the scene in the early ‘90s to paint, putter in her garden and make a few Hollywood film appearances, is back with another of her totally distinctive albums.

“My Roots Are Showing …” is the title of this one, and celebrated songwriter Oslin is its producer-arranger instead of its composer. Purportedly created because Oslin wanted to return to performing but didn’t feel like writing new songs, it’s a collection of songs pulled from country, pop, bluegrass and rock backgrounds.

There is, however, a common denominator, she says, and brings up a conversation she had with RCA/ BNA Records president Joe Galante several years ago in which she predicted that country music would become more dance-oriented.

“And, sure enough, the dance clubs came along, and dance records became very popular,” she says.

“When I realized BNA (now) would give me permission to do any kind of album I wanted, I said, ‘I would like to do a country album you can dance to.’ And that’s what this album is: slow grooves, fast grooves and in between.”

The songs include Jimmie Rodgers’ “Miss the Mississippi And You,” Wilma Burgess’ 1967 hit “Tear Time,” the Louvin Brothers’ “My Baby Came Back,” Bing Crosby’s “I’ll See You In C.U.B.A.,” the Osborne Brothers’ bluegrass classic “Pathway of Teardrops” and a song Oslin learned in the third grade, “Down in the Valley.”

“I feel so renewed,” she says. “I feel such high energy from the success of this musically, the fact that it turned out so well.”