Country music legend Loretta Lynn passes away

When it came to creating country songs, Loretta Lynn was unmatched in her honesty regarding the home realities of women in the workforce. She also encouraged others to express their opinions after her.

SUMMARIES: After her life was converted into a movie, Lynn rose to fame in popular culture, yet she never compromised her values. Jewly Hight of WNXP is appreciative of this.

One of Loretta Lynn’s most popular songs throughout her career boldly detailed her impoverished upbringing.

The song Coal Miner’s Daughter

I was born a coal miner’s daughter in a hut on a hill in Butcher Holler, says Loretta Lynn (singing). Despite our poverty, we had love. That is the only assurance that Daddy provided. To make a dollar as a poor guy, he shovelled coal.

HIGHT: Lynn never got tired of relating tales of her origins in a little coal mining town in the eastern Kentucky Appalachian Mountains. She remembered how her parents, Melvin and Clara Webb, did whatever it needed to feed their eight children, even if it meant accepting a gift of a stolen chicken from a relative in a 2000 NPR interview.

LYNN: There were several occasions when we went to bed hungry and woke up at three in the morning. We could smell the frying chicken. Mom would wake us up, let us eat, and then let us go back to sleep.

HIGHT: Loretta Webb, then just a teenager, married Oliver Lynn, often known as Mooney or Doolittle, a former soldier, when he was 21. They moved to Washington State right away after having the first four of their six children. There, her spouse overheard her singing her to sleep and encouraged her to start giving public performances. Loretta Lynn said she wouldn’t have done it otherwise in a 2010 interview with WHYY’s Fresh Air.

LYNN: I wouldn’t move ahead of the crowd. I would never sing in front of anyone since, as you may know, I was really shy.

HIGHT: According to country music historian and journalist Robert Oermann, Loretta trained herself to compose songs after her husband began finding her lucrative gigs.

She received a copy of Country Song Roundup, a publication that includes country song lyrics as well as celebrity profiles. ROBERT OERMANN She would read the magazine’s country song lyrics and think, “Well, that’s nothing.” Because she could and has, I am capable of doing it.

Turn up that jukebox so loud and fill my glass with liquid while I weep, says Lynn (singing). I’ve got nothing left in this world, so I’m just a honky tonk gal now.

HIGHT: Lynn’s husband and her travelled from radio station to radio station. In an effort to persuade the DJs to play her album, she would introduce herself to them. When the couple arrived in Nashville in 1960, their attempts started to get her attention. The Nashville sound, a lush, pop-sweetened production style popularised by artists like Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline, who later served as Lynn’s mentor, was very successful. Although she collaborated with Cline’s producer Owen Bradley, Lynn maintained her unaffected twang.