{"id":87369,"date":"2022-10-05T04:28:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T04:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/loretta-lynn-obituary-country\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T04:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T04:28:07","slug":"loretta-lynn-obituary-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/loretta-lynn-obituary-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Loretta Lynn obituary | country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Country music has sometimes been described as the authentic blue collar voice of the American south. In the past half-century no singer and songwriter did more to justify that claim than Loretta Lynn, who has died aged 90. In the words of the music historian Bill Malone, Lynn’s songs \u201cspoke for working-class women in a way no ardent feminist could ever do\u201d.<\/p>\n

The self-penned Success (1962) was her first Top 10 country hit and was followed by a slew of No 1 singles on the US country chart, including, in 1966, Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind), an assertive song that cemented her reputation as the defiant voice of the ordinary woman.<\/p>\n

The inspiration for some of Lynn’s compositions was her volatile relationship with her husband, Oliver Lynn, whose nickname was Mooney, a reference to his involvement with moonshine, or illegal liquor. But sometimes her songs were addressed to the \u201cother woman\u201d, for instance, You Ai n’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man) from 1966.<\/p>\n

Her other hits dealt with such topics as the human cost of the Vietnam war (Dear Uncle Sam in 1966 \u2013 a song she revived during the Iraq war); motherhood (One’s on the Way, composed by the humorist Shel Silverstein, in 1971); divorce (Rated X, from 1973); and contraception (The Pill, which was banned by numerous radio stations when it was released in 1975).<\/p>\n

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