Loretta Lynn, whose string of early-1960s hits helped launch a golden age for women on country radio, has died, at age 90. In 2018, dlcantwell wrote about the country star’s lasting legacy.
The key figures in Loretta Lynn’s early artistic development were just as often women as they were men.Loretta Lynn once dreamed of putting together an all-woman backing band, called the Lynettes. But it never happened. “It was that old double standard again,” she explains in “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” the memoir, published in 1976, that she named after her signature song. “People started saying you can’t have a traveling girl band—if you had one incident, people would start gossiping about it.
Thanks to the memoir—and the film adaptation of it, starring Sissy Spacek, from 1980—Lynn’s story is well known. She grew up poor in Appalachian Kentucky to a coal-mining dad whom she adored. When she was fifteen, she married a boy from a nearby holler who had two nicknames: Doo and Mooney . Doo moved the couple to Washington State, where Lynn became a mother of four by the age that most girls are graduating from high school.
Lynn’s string of early-sixties hits, as well as contemporaneous chart runs from Skeeter Davis and from Cline, who died in a plane crash in 1963, launched a golden age for women on country radio—or what passed for one, after years when they barely registered. The arrival of other performers, such as Connie Smith and Dottie West, accompanied soon enough by the rise of the country superstars Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton, seemed, at the time, to represent a seismic shift toward gender parity.
The album’s high point, though, is its title track. One way to hear “Wouldn’t It Be Great?” is as a nod to her fellow country divas, Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette. Lynn released the song as a single, in 1985, but she last cut it in 1993, on an album that the three women recorded together, called “Honky Tonk Angels.
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