Loretta Lynn, Feisty First Lady of Country Music, Dies at 90

The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 10/4/2022

[alstewartfan]

She would have been canceled were she a young talent today.

[FamiliarFace]

I am so sorry to hear this news. What a talent! May she Rest In Peace!

[ansel12]

She was the best because she was the most real.

[dfwgator]

Who’s gonna fill their shoes?
Who’s gonna stand that tall?
Who’s gonna play the Opry
And the Wabash Cannonball?
Who’s gonna give their heart and soul
To get to me and you?
Lord, I wonder who’s gonna fill their shoes?

[ExTxMarine]

She was a true feminist! Not in the model of “all men are bad and need to die”, but in the “you are going to treat me like a human and equal” model!

Loved her music, loved her attitude! I visited her home once when she was home. She actually let about twelve of us standing at her fence come in and talk for about 40 minutes.

AMAZING LADY! She KNEW what “hard times” meant! Down to earth and personable!

[mowowie]

RIP

[nwrep]

In 1975, as the national debate over women’s liberation continued to roil, Lynn incited comment with her song “The Pill.” The tune, which reached No. 5 on the country chart, was, in her words, “about how the man keeps the woman barefoot and pregnant over the years.” It was one of the best examples of the no-nonsense spunk of her songwriting.

WTH?

[nascarnation]

So she was on the take from “Big Pharma”

[Dr. Franklin]

She married at 15 and remained married for 48 years. That just doesn’t happen anymore.

[Revel]

She met her future husband, Oliver “Doolittle” Lynn, when she was only 13. They married a year later, and she gave birth to her first child when she was 14 years old. Lynn had three more children before she was 21 and was a grandmother at 29.

[Dr. Franklin]

She met her future husband, Oliver “Doolittle” Lynn, when she was only 13. They married a year later, and she gave birth to her first child when she was 14 years old. Lynn had three more children before she was 21 and was a grandmother at 29.

That's how they still do it in the Muslim world, only a man can have five wives at at time. There is a reason the Muslims have such a high birth rate compared to the former Christian West.

[Chgogal]

Oh my gosh! Rest In Peace dear lady.

[Hyman Roth]

Olivia Newton-John last month; Loretta Lynn this month. We are losing all the great female singers!

Who is the next great one to go Lizzo? /s

[LottieDah]

May she rest in God’s eternal peace.

[Cuttnhorse]

She was born Loretta Webb on April 14, 1932, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. “I’m always making Butcher Hollow sound like it’s the most backward part of the United States — and I think maybe it is,” she wrote in her autobiography.

I have been to Butcher Holler and have photos of the shack Loretta was born in. It may well be the most backward part of the US.

Rest in Peace, Loretta, you are a phenomenal person.

[Albion Wilde]

See post 44: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4098121/posts?page=44#44

[Cen-Tejas]

AMEN !!

Don’t listen to much country any more unless I get a recommendation from my son. Something like....”it’s good Dad....you’ll like it”.

Modern country is just NOISE.

[nesnah]

Heart-warming side-note:

https://www.wideopencountry.com/patsy-cline-loretta-lynn-friendship-5-moments/

[dfwgator]

“Bad rock with a fiddle.” - Tom Petty

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