Loretta Lynn passed on a week ago. The Choir Invisible's gain is our loss.
She was a force of nature, both professionally and personally. Professionally she is the most awarded female country artist ever; personally she was as tough as they come. She said of her husband that he never hit her where she didn't hit him twice. The Coal Miner's Daughter wasn't of a mind to back down.
Her music defined country music in the 1970s, when she was awarded artist of the decade. The 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter (starring Sissy Spacek who won the Best Actress Oscar that year) wasn't so much a movie as it was a national singalong - Mom and Dad went to see it at a theater in Brewer Maine and said that the audience knew all the words to all the songs. Lynn was asked whether Sissy Spacek could sing the song in the film and Lynn replied, "Well, she's a-gonna."
Tough, and not of a mind to back down.
We've lost something here. Only Dolly is left from the trio of 1960s break through country women.
Rest in peace, and rise in Glory.
3 comments:
Indeed... Back in the day, when you listened to C&W, the songs TOOK you to the country. They TOOK YOU to the West. You could be stuck in gridlock in Manhattan. Loretta would come on the radio and suddenly you were in Appalachia. Marty Robins would come on and suddenly you were in El Paso. Nowadays, the city has polluted C&W, and the legends are almost all gone... Once we're gone, so too will be the memories...
RIP Loretta...
Amen! Beautiful song by beautiful ladies!
Wonderful performance by three amazing talents. I wonder if there are any such performers in the pipeline now who will be looked on so favorably?
Let's hope.
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