As a little girl she sang on her porch swing. Eventually Loretta Lynn’s voice spread beyond Kentucky’s pine hills to Nashville, to the Grand Ole Opry, to the whole of America and across the seas
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskEventually Loretta Lynn’s voice spread far beyond those Kentucky pine hills and hollers, to radio stations, to Nashville and the stage-cum-shrine of the Grand Ole Opry, to the whole nation and across the seas. In 1972 the Country Music Association named her Entertainer of the Year, and she was the Academy of Country Music’s Artist of the Decade for the 1970s.
She also didn’t think she was any big deal. As far as looks went, she had fine blue eyes and good cheekbones from her part-Cherokee mother, but buck teeth, which she hated. She wore long gowns with high necks and long sleeves, hair hanging to her shoulders. Musically, she played simple acoustic guitar and wanted to sing like Kitty Wells, the top female country singer of her teenage years.
In that time of women’s lib she was no feminist, and didn’t want to be. Still she sang about equality , about the hardship of women’s divorce and the joy of the Pill:You’ve set this chicken your last timeDoo’s nocturnal habits came in for a thrashing, too . All this she sang with such a broad defiant grin that she always said she was just clowning around, up on that stage.
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