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  Features6 days ago

  Honky Tonk Girl: Loretta Lynn’s Grand Ole Opry Debut

  The coal miner’s daughter was 25 years old when she made her first appearance on the celebrated show and broadcast.

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  Features3 weeks ago

  ‘Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’’: Loretta Lynn’s Feminist Anthem

  Continuing Loretta's bold habit of saying the unsayable, ‘Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind)’ was a landmark song in country music.

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  News2 months ago

  Loretta Lynn To Host Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan, And More At Flood Relief Show

  ‘Loretta Lynn’s Friends: Hometown Rising Flood Relief Benefit Concert‘ will take place on September 13 at the Grand Ole Opry House.

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  Features2 months ago

  ‘As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone’: Conway Twitty Calls Loretta Lynn

  It was not so much ‘I Just Called To Say I Love You’ as the opposite, on the melodramatic ‘As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone.’

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  Features2 months ago

  Best Music Memoirs: 30 Essential Reads For Music Lovers

  Passionate and highly personal accounts of extraordinary lives, the best music memoirs offer everything from creative insights to rock’n’roll excess.

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  Features3 months ago

  The Best Birthday Songs

  A collection of great songs to soundtrack the frenzied unwrapping of presents and the consumption of way too much cake.

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  News4 months ago

  Watch Loretta Lynn’s ‘God Bless America Again’ On ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’

  The clip is the latest to be shared from the vast vaults of the long-running variety show.

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  Features4 months ago

  Original Outlaws: 10 Country Heroes Who Paved The Way For Americana

  From original rebels such as Hank Williams to genre-defying country heroes like Willie Nelson, these are the icons who paved the way for Americana.

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  Features5 months ago

  ‘When I Dream’: Crystal Gayle Storms The Charts In 1978

  Loretta Lynn's younger sister was in the form of her life when she unveiled her fifth studio album 'When I Dream.'

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  Features5 months ago

  ‘Come And Get These Memories’: Vandellas Help Shape The Motown Sound

  'Come And Get These Memories' embodied the sound that Berry Gordy had been looking for.

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  Features6 months ago

  Best Loretta Lynn Songs: 20 Essential Country Tunes

  Combine an earnestly backwoods twang with potent, economical songwriting, the country songwriter is among the finest the genre has ever produced.

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  Features6 months ago

  ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’: Real Life In Butcher Holler, By Loretta Lynn

  Ten years into her chart career, the self-taught singer, songwriter and guitarist took a number about her own life to No.1.

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  Features7 months ago

  ‘I Remember Patsy’: Loretta Lynn’s Heartfelt Tribute To Patsy Cline

  As Patsy Cline’s most successful musical disciple and dear friend, no person was better suited to record a tribute to the country legend than Loretta Lynn.

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  Features7 months ago

  Best Female Songwriters: An Essential Top 25 Countdown

  From subversive subject matter to affairs of the heart, the best female songwriters are often the most insightful, as this list proves.