Lynn stops tour for treatment

Loretta Lynn has postponed a concert slated for Saturday in her native eastern Kentucky because of stomach pains she suffered during a tour through Southern California this week.

The Country Music Hall of Fame member, 69, has been experiencing the pains on and off for about a month, a spokeswoman for the singer said Thursday, and after performances Sunday in Irvine and Monday in Paso Robles she decided to seek medical diagnosis and treatment. Lynn rebounded from a bout with pneumonia in 2001, which she later said had been nearly fatal.

Lynn has been working on a new album, with White Stripes singer-guitarist Jack White producing. The band’s 2001 album, “White Blood Cells,” included its version of Lynn’s 1972 hit “Rated X” and was dedicated to her, and Jack and drummer Meg White subsequently struck up a social and working relationship with her.

Lynn and Jack White recorded several songs in June, and Lynn has since written a dozen more to draw from for the album, targeted for release next year as the follow-up to her 2000 comeback, “Still Country.”

-- Randy Lewis