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Loretta Lynn, RIP
- Thread starter Michedelic
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RIP to a true great, an inspiring pioneer who created an example many other greats have since followed.
RIP Loretta Lynn true Queen of country music
I worked many times with the guy who was her touring drummer for over 10 years. He spoke highly of her.
Several lifetimes ago I worked in an Opry style house band in Indiana. She headlined several times in a 5-year span. She always sat with the house band backstage and spoke to us like a next-door neighbor. She talked about her family and her dreams and asked us about ours. One time she got off the bus with a broken leg in a full-length cast. Performed the show like it was no big deal. She was a veteran of the stage wars and maintained her humility, her humanity and her motherliness throughout all her trials and tribulations. I feel a personal loss like anyone she touched on any level is now.
I grew up listening to her, before the movie Coal Miner's Daughter shined a light on her.
I used to see her on Johnny Cash's and Glen Cambel's shows, Hee Haw, Pop Goes the Country, etc...
I remember when she and Conway Twitty were doing their duets on all the different shows.
She took her place amongst the greats by being herself and singing from heart. That used to be an appealing attribute in performers.
Rest in peace...
Whether you like Country Music or not, you tip your hat to a legend like her.
godspeed Loretta and say hiyall to Conway for me.
godspeed Loretta and say hiyall to Conway for me.
She was an amazing lady on many levels and a real pioneer for women in the music industry. By all accounts she was a really nice person as well. R.I.P. Ms Lynn. You will be remembered.
Loretta was one of the last of the major artists who came to prominence in the 60's and 70's, when Country Music (and the music business in general) was a smaller entity, and someone who had a good voice and that 'something' could come out of the Kentucky hills, for instance, and work her way into the business. No agents, no band with music degrees, no buses at first.
She was unique in that of her generation, she was one of the few artists that wrote her own hits to a great degree. And the records she wrote (and bear in mind this is in the early 60's when she hit) told a far different woman's story than had ever been spoken out loud, much less made into hit records, in a world still too used to June Cleaver, Betty Crocker, and Harriett Nelson. Her record 'The Pill' (where she therewith proclaimed the playhouse now had a gate on it and mama was gonna get around, instead of being pregnant for years on end) was actually banned by most radio stations (!) until the public pressure reversed their stand. She sang songs that any full-growed-woman instantly identified with. 'Fist City', 'You Ain't Woman Enough', 'Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' cut RIGHT to the chase for a lot of ladies, and her career skyrocketed, yet she was always a very down-to-earth person.
My late mother-in-law was one of those full-growed-women, and when she visited us in Nashville from Florida, she wanted to go see Loretta's home in Hurricane Mills, TN, about an hour away. So we took her, took the tour, and as a surprise, the tickets included Loretta in a rare performance at the site. Then, Tammy Wynette walked and the two of them traded songs and stories for close to two hours, an extremely rare event, and something I'll never forget (Tammy's self-penned 'Until I Can Make It On My Own' is one of my very favorite songs).
She got to talk to them, and it was obvious that while my mother-in-law lacked the jewelry, big hair and gowns, that all three of them were . . . . full-growed women, like they'd been friends forever.
THAT was Loretta.
She was unique in that of her generation, she was one of the few artists that wrote her own hits to a great degree. And the records she wrote (and bear in mind this is in the early 60's when she hit) told a far different woman's story than had ever been spoken out loud, much less made into hit records, in a world still too used to June Cleaver, Betty Crocker, and Harriett Nelson. Her record 'The Pill' (where she therewith proclaimed the playhouse now had a gate on it and mama was gonna get around, instead of being pregnant for years on end) was actually banned by most radio stations (!) until the public pressure reversed their stand. She sang songs that any full-growed-woman instantly identified with. 'Fist City', 'You Ain't Woman Enough', 'Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' cut RIGHT to the chase for a lot of ladies, and her career skyrocketed, yet she was always a very down-to-earth person.
My late mother-in-law was one of those full-growed-women, and when she visited us in Nashville from Florida, she wanted to go see Loretta's home in Hurricane Mills, TN, about an hour away. So we took her, took the tour, and as a surprise, the tickets included Loretta in a rare performance at the site. Then, Tammy Wynette walked and the two of them traded songs and stories for close to two hours, an extremely rare event, and something I'll never forget (Tammy's self-penned 'Until I Can Make It On My Own' is one of my very favorite songs).
She got to talk to them, and it was obvious that while my mother-in-law lacked the jewelry, big hair and gowns, that all three of them were . . . . full-growed women, like they'd been friends forever.
THAT was Loretta.
A true queen of music, she wasn't afraid to step out of her genre a bit with Jack White. RIP CMD. Say hi to Johnny and Waylon.
Another Legend passes......
In this house, we're watching Coal miners daughter...right now..as I write this.
Singer, songwriter, stylist, superstar, real live person..
Bye Loretty
In this house, we're watching Coal miners daughter...right now..as I write this.
Singer, songwriter, stylist, superstar, real live person..
Bye Loretty
Rest easy in a sweet garden of sound sweet lady.. You were respected and appreciated by this punk and grunge rocking misfit...RIP..
Wow… she was one of the classic greats! She made a huge contribution to female country. RIP Loretta Lynn.
