Well done kay a very descriptive profile of the coal miner's daughter i'm told
she's also the bluntest person in country music! Well at least acording to reba
macintire.
jack scrimshaw u k cowboy
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From: kay scrimshaw
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Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 11:31 AM
Subject: [RecipesAndMore] a who 2 profile, loretta lynne
Hi, thought you'd all like this, or those that love country music.
Loretta Lynn: A Who2 Profile
Loretta Lynn
Country Singer / Songwriter
Loretta Lynn is a country music legend whose life story, as told in her 1976
autobiography Coal Miner's Daughter, is almost as well-known as her music.
Born and raised in the poor coal mining mountains of Kentucky, she was
married by the time she was 14 years old to Oliver V. "Mooney" Lynn, also
known as "Doo." After having six children she began singing professionally
in the late 1950s. In 1960 she had her first hit, "Honky Tonk Girl," and by
the 1970s she was the richest woman in country music, famous for her
working-class appeal and the defiance shown in such songs as "You Ain't
Woman Enough (To Take My Man)," "Before I'm Over You" and "Coal Miner's
Daughter." Lynn also found great success singing duets with Ernest Tubb
("Mr. and Mrs. Used To Be") and Conway Twitty ("Louisiana Woman, Mississippi
Man"), and in business ventures that included a chain of western wear
clothing shops, a music publishing company and a travelling rodeo show. Her
autobiography was a bestseller and was made into the movie that won Sissy
Spacek an Oscar for Best Actress ( Tommy Lee Jones portrayed "Doo" in the
movie). Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988, Lynn took time
off from her career in the 1990s to care for her ailing husband, who died in
1996. In 2004 she released a critically acclaimed album, Van Lear Rose,
produced by rocker Jack White of The White Stripes.
Extra credit: Early in her career Lynn was befriended by country star Patsy
Cline... Lynn's 1971 song "One's On the Way" was penned by poet Shel
Silverstein... Her 1975 song, "The Pill," about a woman's personal freedom
as a result of birth control pills, was banned by several radio stations in
the U.S.
Vital Stats
Birth
14 April
1935
Birthplace
Butcher Hollow,
Kentucky
Best Known As
Country legend and "Coal Miner's Daughter"
http://www.who2.com/lorettalynn.html
Kay
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