| Dear Sister | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Claire Lynch |
| Cover: | DearSister.jpg |
| Released: | 2013 |
| Genre: | Bluegrass |
| Label: | Compass Records |
| Prev Title: | Whatcha Gonna Do |
| Prev Year: | 2009 |
| Next Title: | North by South |
| Next Year: | 2016 |
Dear Sister is the tenth studio album from bluegrass musician Claire Lynch. The album reached No. 9 on the Bluegrass Album chart in Billboard magazine.[1] The track, "Dear Sister", won the 2014 International Bluegrass Music Association award for Song of the Year.[2]
The song "Dear Sister" is based on author Frank Anderson Chappel and his 2002 book Dear Sister: Civil War Letters to a Sister in Alabama.[3] The sister detailed in the book is an ancestor of author Chappel.[3] Album co-writer Louisa Branscomb also has a connection similar to that of Chappel. Branscomb has a great-great aunt who had four brothers in the civil war, all of whom wrote letters to her which she saved after being found in the 20th Century.[3]