Former Country HATER'S first time hearing Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter (Reaction!)

[@MommaBird52]

Loretta wrote this song along with nearly all of her songs. She married Doolittle Lynn at the age of 15 and became a mother within a year. She was a grandma at 34. (My grandmother, married at 12, was a grandmother at 28.)

[@foreveryoung3254]

Sounds like my family. I married at 17 and now have 7 kids.

[@MommaBird52]

@@foreveryoung3254 no wonder you are foreveryoung 😊

[@hopeanna9201]

They were actually married when she was 13. Her daddy begged her to wait, but she wouldn’t.

[@renazimmerman2748]

She wasn't that old. She was a grandma at 29. Please get this right because some people don't know her and have never heard her.

[@renazimmerman2748]

@@hopeanna9201 You're right!

[@dagmar.6954]

Loretta Lynn was a country legend & singer song writer who's music has spanned 6 decades. She was also friends with the great late Patsy Cline. Her younger sister Crystal Gayle also is a great singer. She grew up dirt poor & stayed humble & true to her roots. The autobiographical movie "Coal Miner's Daughter" is worth looking at. Sadly we lost Loretta Lynn last year.

[@Vic-l3l]

did she act in the coal miners daughter?

[@70sMusicLady]

No, Sissy Spacek won an Academy Award playing Loretta in the movie.

[@pamalakiser5373]

She got married at 13. You should watch the movie. You would love it.

[@Vic-l3l]

@@pamalakiser5373 was that even legal and do you have a link?

[@Vic-l3l]

@@pamalakiser5373 oh the movie starring sissy spacek is about Loretta?

[@natshellok]

That song literally tells the true the story of her childhood. She was an amazing woman. And she never forgot her roots or where she came from. She sponsors and helped young singers her entire life. You HAVE to listen to Fist City. It's a fun one and shows her scrappy side. People used to ask, "Are you more Jolene or Fist City?" Personally, I'm fist city all the way. 🤣

[@cindy844]

I love both of those songs, and both iconic ladies. But I gotta go with Chapel Hart's "You Can Have Him, Jolene"

[@natshellok]

@@cindy844 Ooh good point! I have to agree!

[@xScooterAZx]

Jolene was done by Dolly Parton. Released on May 22, 1973.

[@lindalou6105]

And there's a movie about her life

[@charissakington606]

Fist City and You Ain't Woman Enough

[@MommaBird52]

Lorettie, as her family called her, hand picked Cissy Spacek to play her in the movie Coal Miner's Daughter. Cissy sang all of the songs in the movie. Loretta wrote most of her own songs and performed many duets. She and Conway sang You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly.

[@GinMae]

YES - Cissy was the perfect choice...

[@RobertBreedon-c3b]

Did not she stay with Loretta before the filming

[@lizturner267]

Sissy tells the story that she had no idea when Loretta announced on the Carson show that she wanted “that Little Sissy Spacek to play me”. She’d never met her. Loretta couldn’t have chosen more perfectly. She did move in with Loretta for a bit so Loretta could help her with the songs. Sissy did all the singing in the movie and nailed it! (Beverly Deangelo sang too amazingly as Patsy Clien). When Miss Loretta picks you, you listen to Lorettie!

[@jeffhensley6929]

She and Conway Twitty were THE dynamic duo of the sixties and seventies.

[@markalumbaugh2756]

FACT CHECK: Loretta Lynn wrote this song. She was indeed a Coal Miner Daughter. Story of her life

[@mandakay6995]

Loretta Lynn is the only famous person I have ever heard of who prerecorded a video to go out to her fans after her death. She thanks her fans for supporting her and her family and giving them a better life. She also expressed how much she loved each and every fan. She was truly a one-of-a-kind humble soul. Rest in peace, Ms. Loretta.

[@amandaschulte9423]

Thank you for listening. She's my 4th cousin and your appreciation of her art is something I can't thank you enough for. ❤

[@lisarousseau788]

Wow! How cool is that? I absolutely LOVE this woman she is the bomb!!!

[@janetwebb2701]

She and my FIL shared a fourth great grandfather! Both were Webbs

[@jwmson7791]

Not sure about the song facts on your screen but Loretta actually wrote this. This is a bio of her early life. And if you never have you should watch the movie Coal Miners Daughter. It’s about her life and career and is a great movie with a great soundtrack. R.I.P. Loretta.🌹

[@shawnpilgrim2355]

Legend. They made a movie about Loretta called “Coal Miner’s Daughter”. Sissy Soacek, who played Loretta, did so good she won an Oscar for it.

[@sherrygreer3069]

My mom was a coal miners daughter so we loved this song. She was born in a log cabin in Harlan Co KY during the coal miners war there. My grandfather broke his back twice in the mines and the second time they told him he couldn’t come back so they became sharecroppers until he got enough money to move to Cincinnati to find work. My mom always laughed at this song because she said the people in this song were rich because they had a hog to sell. She said they didn’t have even that. Her dad made them shoes to wear and they would put cardboard in the bottom when holes came through the soles.

[@kaysnyder3882]

As a Kentuckian, we are often stereotyped especially people from the Mountains, and I think this song not only praised her parents, but made it very clear that she was not embarrassed, or ashamed of where she came from. Adversity forges a fine people.

[@kimking6036]

Loretta wrote her own songs. They came straight from her life. She taught herself how to play the guitar and writing songs. She had songs banned from main street radio. Such as The Pill. She had the kindest heart. But she never forgot where she came or the fans who supported her. But if you messed around with her husband she'd confront then write a song about you. Like, Fist City or You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man😊

[@ionecuff6323]

Loretta wrote "Coal Miner's Daughter" and it tells of her life, her parents, her siblings, what life was like but more importantly, the LOVE for a family!!! I love her and her music, I grew up with it. It's REAL COUNTRY music!

[@tinasmallwood9546]

If you and Ally ever get the chance to watch the movie "Coal Miners Daughter" it will not be a waste of your time. Big name stars in that film based on the true events of Loretta's life.. it is unforgettable and you in turn will forever be a fan and love Ms. Loretta like the rest of us. Side note, your guy Conway Twitty and Loretta were a dynamic singing duo (though never an item) just like George Jones and Tammy Wynette. Thanks for including old school country on this genre journey. Have a blessed weekend!

[@kathysutton-zy8ww]

Speaking from experience, this is a very accurate depiction. My kids, grandkids and I now live in Oklahoma. But my life started out very similarly to this song. I was also born in Kentucky, and my dad was also a coal miner. There were nine kids in my family. We did not have indoor plumbing, so I remember carrying water up from the creek, using an outhouse, seeing my mother wash our clothes outside in a metal tub with a washboard. I remember running around barefoot in the summers and getting new shoes when school started. Our lives changed when I was seven years old and my grandparents convinced my dad to move us to the Detroit area for better work opportunities. Though my dad never became wealthy. My brother still lives on our family property in the middle of Cumberland Gap National Park in Kentucky. We have family reunions there every year, and we all still call it “home”. My kids and my grandson have played in the same creek behind my brother’s house that I played in as a child.

[@moorek1967]

Wow, you are like the song I Never Picked Cotton by Roy Clark. "I never picked cotton, like my mother did and brother did and sister did and my daddy died young working in a coal mine". The song was set in Oklahoma.

[@kathysutton-zy8ww]

@@moorek1967 🤣🤣 Not familiar with that song, but it sounds about right! Lol.

[@moorek1967]

@@kathysutton-zy8ww It is a great song. It is about a poor white family that has never been anything else and they pick cotton in Oklahoma, but the voice of the song character doesn't want to live like that and he promised himself when he was older he would never pick cotton. And he turned to be a very rebellious kid that ran away and got into all kinds of trouble to the point of killing a man and they were going to hang him the next day, but he was proud that when he was being hung he never picked cotton. It is a great song and Roy Clark sang it.

[@RubyGB]

"Coal Miner's Daughter" was entirely written and recorded by singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It is considered Loretta's signature song and was originally released as a single in 1970. It became a number one hit on the Billboard country chart and was later released on an album of the same name.

[@matthewmastromatteo7146]

The biggest difference between country music then was the lifestyle influenced the music, now the music influences the lifestyle

[@TheSurvivalist58]

Yes she had 3 key changes! You really should check out more of her music. Most of the older country is about their lives! That's what made it so great ❤

[@Fonoyb]

It was also about Woman's Spunk in a time where woman were supposed to do what their husband's told them.

[@TheSurvivalist58]

@@Fonoyb maybe you missed the part about her father worked hard in the coal mines to support his family! It has nothing to do with a woman's spunk! In those days a woman's life was taking care of the home and children! I have followed Lorettas life and music for well over 50 years. I have read all her biographies and have been to her family farm! I will say it again, the music is about their life!

[@pastorslw]

The First Lady of Country Music

[@lindavaughn4974]

Loretta Lynn is and was the Queen of Country Music may she sing with the angels in HEAVEN.

[@chrispate7354]

They called Loretta Lynn the First Lady of Country Music but she was so much more than that… she WAS country music. She is a legend. Her music was written by her and performed by her.

[@dherald1532]

I highly recommend finding the movie Coal Miners Daughter. Like the song, it is true and biographical. This is one of my favorites. She does not too long ago! RIP Loretta!

[@Farmhouse6]

All of her songs are stories of her life. She was an amazing lady.

[@mattiemathis9549]

For a lot of us country folk, many of the lines bring back our childhoods. We didn’t have running water until I was 8. I remember flipping through Sears and Roebuck every year. This song always makes me smile.

[@dennismorrison3542]

Loretta Lynn was one of my favorite female singers, I’m all country

[@jayce711]

Loretta Lynn wrote Coal Miner's. Daughter. She's an incredible songwriter! She's a Legend! 24 #1 songs! She said she had 14 songs banned from radio because she wrote and sang about real life. This one is her an autobiographical sing, she wrote a book by the same name, and there was a movie made about life, Coal Miner's Daughter. Great movie. Check out her songs You Ain't Woman Enough, Fist City, Don't Come Home A Drinkin', Blue Kentucky Girl, and her duets with Conway Twitty, You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly and Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man. Happy to see you are listening to Loretta. A lot of us call her The Queen!!

[@l.l4456]

Beautiful Loretta! Great reaction & analysis! She was an icon. A brutally honest songwriter & fabulous singer. Yes, she for sure is in O.G. She wrote it like she saw it & sang it like she meant it! In her day she was actually controversial, her songs spoke openly about some topics, such as birth control, that were deemed to be inappropriate for main stream radio. Yet those songs rose to the top of the charts anyway! Some of my favorites are You Ain't Woman Enough, Fist City, You're Lookin At Country & I Can't Hear The Music Anymore. Really anything of hers is worth exploring. In an interview with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes she talked about how the execs at the record company tried to change her to fit into the mainstream, especially the way she talked, but it didn't work. She was a country girl from the hills of Kentucky & that was it. She stayed true to herself. I love & respect that the most about her. RIp sweet Loretta.

[@teresamerkel7161]

"Old school country" is what my dad introduced me to when I drove him to the Fort for PTSD treatment (a Korean war vet). Loretta Lynn was one of top favorites. This song is one of reasons. He could relate to this so much! This was the story of his parents as well as my mom and him. They definitely all worked hard, the men at humble jobs (grandpa was a farmer and coal miner, Dad a ranch hand and auto mechanic) and the women working to raise numerous kids and the hard work that entails.

[@denveradams4909]

I can relate so much to this song. My father worked in a factory, making commercial ovens from stainless steel, in Southeastern Ohio. My parents raised 11 children in some pretty tough financial times. Especially after my father got hurt on the job, lifting a sheet of steel up on the shear table where he would cut the sheets into pieces from the blueprints. He seriously injured his spine and got a double hernia at the same time. He was never able to work after that. However, he did what he could to support his large family. He hunted and trapped furbearing animals so he could sell the pelts. We also raised very large gardens and raised chickens & hogs for food. We didn't always have what we wanted, but for the most part, we had what we needed to survive. My mother let the older siblings babysit the little ones, while she cleaned houses for pay. Us kids worked in the garden and helped with the butchering of hogs in the fall. At one time, we didn't have running water in the house and had to carry our drinking/cooking water from a spring, located about 1/4 mile down over the hill from our house. We would line up and go down to the spring, carrying bleach jugs to carry the water in. The older kids would carry gallon jugs and the younger ones, half gallon jugs. Yes, it was a hard life, But there was more than enough love in our home to carry us through. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Later, after graduating from high school, I enlisted in the US Marine Corps, where I served for 6 years. I was just 5ft 1in tall and 117lbs, but I had the toughness and determination to make it. I went on to have a career as a 9-1-1 dispatcher and even worked in a medium security prison before retiring from the state of West Virginia at the end of 2016. I have been blessed and continue to be, as a gospel music recording artist and I now build custom desktop computers.

[@ArdenAngel]

As the granddaughter of a West Virginian Coal Miner, Thank You for covering Miss Loretta Lynn. The song has always been close to my heart!

[@melissagerber7231]

My aunt's American born Italian husband worked the Sunshine Mine in Centerville, IA .Unfortunately,he supplemented his pay by running alcohol for Al Capone.

[@randallwilson9603]

Loretta wrote this about her life. I saw her live a few years before she died and still had a great show in her late 70’s.

[@ellenguillory2063]

Must reactions "You ain't woman enough h to take my man" and "Don't come home adrinkin' with loving on your mind" Married at 13 and supported the family. She is a true country legend.

[@charissakington606]

And Fist City! Loved Loretta! Absolutely hilarious and feisty. True country.

[@michaelphipps8647]

R.I.P. Queen Loretta 👸

[@stevedaulton9655]

This is a classic old-school country! It is a tribute to a father who worked his backsides off to support a family in the old days down in Coal Country and how tough life was in general. These people didn't have any modern conveniences such as electricity, running water, used coal for heating, and earning amounts of money we couldn't believe by today's standards. I don't know if our generation could make it like this today. It's no wonder these guys passed on in their early sixties - they were worn out. And of course, the Mom's had it rough too - washing clothes by hand and cooking on coal stoves. Loretta Lynn is one of the best ever.

[@benjamansharer7969]

Yes, it was a time where the miners made, if lucky, $5 a week working 60-70 hours a week with little to no safety equipment or anything else to help protect them. Then that little bit of money ended up at the company store for things like flour, coffee, and food. When the food bill was over that $5, it was put on a tab and the miners would have to work it off. Many of the miners would pass with a big debt still owed to the company store. The company would take the farms and the homes of those who didn't pay off those debts

[@stevedaulton9655]

Awesome Benjamin for providing that detail. If you go thru Charleston WVA there is a huge Coal Mine that you can see that ash and smoke miles away - I understand they have tours of it for the public - I think every American needs to see it. Our independence as a nation really comes from providing the energy we need. And appreciate the people who make it happen. @@benjamansharer7969

[@cathybrookeburt2616]

Loretta also has a lot of great duets with Conway Twitty, like 'Louisiana woman, Mississippi man' & the fun one 'You're the reason our kids are ugly' to name a few.

[@debrabeck9630]

Loretta is the real deal. Country to her bones, and it was a real hard scrabble life for her family. I’d be surprised if she didn’t write this. She wrote almost all of her songs. Love Loretta!!

[@757optim]

We lost Loretta almost exactly one year ago - October 2022. The roots of country music run to the hills. Music eased a hard life.

[@robbieoverby1694]

I believe Loretta wrote and composed the song all by herself.

[@iamnotgoldenhar8645]

I was on her ranch for the 4th of July celebration two or three summers before she passed and she came to the stage to talk to the crowd a bit and she sang a part of this song. IT WAS AMAZING! She lived on her ranch until she passed. Her granddaughter and Conway Twitty's grandson have a duo now, and they honor their grandparents.

[@kerrimcclain3648]

I’ve shared this story on several different accounts but it’s worth sharing again. I took my daughters to see her in concert & she was just amazing!! Her daughter opened the show for her & then she came out wearing one of her beautiful big ball gowns. She recently had hip surgery so she sat the whole show & took request all evening. My daughter was thrilled when she sang her request & allowed her to stand by the stage & sing with her. After the show was over her daughter allowed some of her fans on the bus. My daughters were lucky enough to go on, get a signed set of her CDs & a pic with her. Even after she became super famous she still remained so down to earth!! We lost an amazing lady when she passed away.

[@vickieswearingen2610]

One of Loretta Lynn's younger sisters is named Crystal Gayle! A talented beauty! With gorgeous hair that hits the floor! She has a lot of hits but my fav is Don't it Make my Brown Eyes Blue!!

[@Yowza78]

I love Loretta's funny songs. Fist City. You Ain't Woman Enough. One's on the Way. The Pill. She was a great writer and a feminist in her own way. In this song (which she wrote) I love the way she rhymes "hard" and "tired."

[@bekahms]

Coal Miner's Daughter" is a song written and recorded by Loretta Lynn. Considered Lynn's signature song, it was originally released as a single in 1970 and became a number one hit on the Billboard country chart. It was later released on an album of the same name.

[@vickybrackin7483]

Loretta WAS and IS the legend of country music for women!! She paved the way for SO many others today!! RIP Loretta

[@timmurphy479]

When I was a kid I spent my Summers in Gretel Kentucky just the stone throw away from butcher's holler My mother went to school with her and Crystal Great reaction country on

[@kkyankee13NY]

My wife is , and has been the greatest mother, grandmother in the world. She does without so others may have!

[@cherrylattimore]

It's about time you watched some of Miss Loretta. She's one of the biggest legend's of all time. And the songs we wrote - all about real women's issues just when women weren't supposed to talk about. And one of the most down to home people you'd ever meet. The movie about her life starred Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones (they did their own singing!!) was incredible. Miss Loretta's catalogue in one I could spend days singing along to. One of her later records Van Lear Rose was done with Jack White of the White Stripes - it's epic. Can't hit a wrong note with Miss Loretta.

[@maryrichardson1318]

When I was a teenager, I worked taking tickets and ushering at Rupp Arena, in Lexington, Kentucky, from 1977 to 1980. The University of Kentucky plays basketball there, and in the 1970s, there were a lot of concerts at that venue. When Loretta Lynn and her performing partner, Conway Twitty had a concert there, the entire population of Butcher Holler, Kentucky showed up. After the concert, Loretta and Conway sat on the stage and signed autographs and took pictures for over 2 hours. They must have been exhausted, but I have never seen two more gracious performers and they would not leave until every single audience member was satisfied.

[@tessasnow]

You’ve gotta listen to Loretta singing Fist City. She was gangster. She had lots of songs that were banned on the radio. There is a movie starring sissy spacek as Loretta and tommie lee jones as her husband Dew. 🇨🇦🖖🏻

[@DeboraCarrollStitcher]

I remember when I was a little girl and the movie Coal miner’s Daughter opened in nashville and Loretta was there! It was the story of her life.

[@portialancaster3442]

My husband met Loretta Lynn in the Philippines when he was playing backup bass for Freddy Fender. They were all part of a big USO tour and he had many memorable moments but, the thing he treasured most was meeting Lorettie. He said she was the kindest person he'd ever met.

[@eabird4358]

YES! You need to go down that rabbit hole! You won't be disappointed! The Queen of country! All the songs she wrote and sang are about her life and marriage. She kept it real. She was country gangsta. You will understand when you hear her stories/songs.

[@jennifer198801]

My mother an aunt got to tour her house and take pictures with her they said she was the most down to earth person they ever met and the sweetest wish I would've gotten to meet her only thing I got to do was tour her hurricane mills it was beautiful❤

[@fancystitch6478]

This song brings back so many memories. My daddy was a coal miner and raised 7 kids on a miner’s pay. It was a hard life. Makes me so thankful that my parents got to enjoy some of the modern convinces before they passed away, that we now take for granted.

[@ezrvs]

Loretta wrote this song herself. Catch the movie of the same title. She was an amazing woman with an amazing life. In her latter years she held a giant motocross event on her place in Tennessee. She was the real, genuine article.

[@patricialangford2802]

There's a young man singing country, he wrote a some called "coal keeps the lights on" check it out. Coal miners are such hard workers and unappreciated. Bless them all.

[@findingmyrootswoolmarketms]

This always makes me think of my Granny and PawPaw. In the early years of their marriage, they were migrant workers, and spent much of their time in the pecan orchards in Texas picking up pecans. They worked and lived outdoors in the orchard and slept in a makeshift lean to. All of their cooking was done outdoors over a fire, and all of their washing was done by hand. During these years, they had one baby to care for in the midst of all of the hardship. They went on to become owners of 80 acres of land, business owners, and my grandmother became a master sewing instructor for Singer sewing machine company. Regardless of the amount of “success“ they had in their lifetime, my Granny told me that the days living in that pecan orchard were the best days of her life.

[@shellienations5598]

Im very Blessed to have a photo of Loretta she signed for my grandma.

[@jackprather620]

I'm 63 now when I wad a kid my whole room had pictures of Loretta Lynn loved her then love her now

[@LISAGSTONE3]

"Coal Miner's Daughter" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. Considered Lynn's signature song, it was originally released as a single in 1970 and became a number one hit on the Billboard country chart. It was later released on an album of the same name.

[@dianegott9336]

She was a grand lady. Saw her many times in person. What a gift to country.

[@juliecunningham3131]

Loretta was definitely a legend she had the voice of an angel. She passed last year at the age of 90. ❤

[@amyweeklynewsreport6787]

Not only was it a beautiful song but it's a true story they say you can go back there and see where she grew up one day I'd love to do that God this song makes me cry every time😢

[@blippacg]

Boy she looks terrific in that performance.

[@Chris-yi3mo]

I love her. I live about 30 minutes from Butcher Holler, where she grew up.

[@christinamo7]

I had hardworking parents too - and I am so glad they taught me how to do things. Love this song

[@Gpunk19]

As I was growing up my mother played a lot of Loretta Lynn's music I know every song she ever done. At first I didn't like country music but hearing her great voice and many of her songs changed my mind about country music.When she passed away last year we lost another Icon R.I.P Loretta Lynn.

[@gladyswashington5171]

Loretta Lynn was my Mom's all time favorite singer!

[@JohnMiller-zn9pf]

Loretta was one of OG of outlaw country. She sang songs about life. Including fighting other women for her husband, taking the "Pill" when NO ONE spoke about those things at that time.

[@margaretbehr7539]

My mother lived like that. She had 14 brothers and sisters. They all was very close. They are all gone now. I miss them so much!

[@hackermusic3355]

Since I was a coal miner, my wife's dad, grandfather, and uncles were all coal miners the movie Coal Miner's Daughter was almost required watching in our family.

[@gordonduke8812]

My children are 21 and 28 and I can tell you that how you do it is the thing that matters most. Oh, and remember, children spell love T I M E, so give all you can, eve if it interferes with what you think is important. Great reaction to a great woman.

[@janetgodfrey4110]

Loretta wrote Coal Miners Daughter and a lot more songs. She was also the first woman who was named Entertainer of the Year

[@kerricrawley6864]

Watch the movie!!! My family is from West Virginia. She at 13 was put into an unknown world. It's a great movie. Saw it when I was 8. now at 44, I would have been frightened. She overcame obstacles

[@renaforsman7287]

Mom's & dad's were so tough back then. Check out her sister, Crystal Gale. Also impressive in the real old country style. God bless to Ms Lynn. A true county lady legend!! Not to many ladies in county music back then. A few more now but . . .

[@theprimitiveblackhatsociet8274]

Saw her in concert in the mid 70's. She was amazing.

[@907kat]

Well you gotta do Fist City! The Pill is another great one; she doesn’t mince words. Lol.

[@bigwaylon]

Fist City is the one that needs to go on your playlist!

[@lynettenasseri753]

Great voice, stage presence and telling her story by song. A legend.

[@amyweems5248]

Fist City, You Ain’t Woman Enough, The Pill, Don’t Come Home Drinkin with Lovin on Your Mind. All of these are a MUST.

[@tracy8508]

I grew up on country music. She is #1!!! So many great songs, do some more!

[@jennifersmith1460]

She was my hero. Lost one of her sons at an early age. RIP to the Queen of Country.

[@kathleenedens7953]

'Van Lear Rose' by Loretta is beautiful. It's about her momma. Jack White sang it in tribute to her at the CMT awards show. He nailed it. 😊

[@LISAGSTONE3]

One of my favorite movies of all time is "Coal Miner's daughter" with Sissy Spacek... It is Loretta Lynn's life story and it's a wonderful movie

[@clairen7923]

Loretta has so many fantastic songs, but far and away what I always recommend listening to is "The Pill" - for those of us who have lived always being able to control our reproductive choices, it's a testament to how massive a change it was for women when medical birth control was legalized.

[@belvagurr403]

Loretta Lynn wrote the song Coal Miner’s Daughter herself. She wrote most of her songs but Shel Silverstein, poet and writer of children’s books and cartoonist for Playboy Magazine, wrote Hey Loretta for her.

[@mikelbrett1]

Loretta was and always will be a national treasure. Don’t let that sweet smile and angelic voice fool you though, the lady had fire in her soul. Her husband was both a drunk and a womanizer (she always stood by him), and she wrote several songs about it, most notable You Ain’t Woman Enough (a must listen) and Don’t Come Home a-Drinkin. In 1975 as the birth control pill was being introduced, and ladies were discovering they could be more than wifes and mothers, she wrote and recorded the song The Pill, it was scandalous at the time and banned from being played on most radio stations yet still became a hit and the anthem for many ladies during that time.

[@Krob039]

She is the Queen of Country.

[@aggie05too30]

Check out the movie that depicts her life story, it absolutely beautiful. Her movie is called, "Coal Miners Daughter", and it is a treasure. She is one of several Country music women who are absolute America's sweethearts and icons and loved by million and millions of people.

[@tracy8508]

I grew up on country music including her. I’m almost 60 and have listened to so many different genres. I still have a country playlist on my Spotify and she is still my all time favorite female country artist. I love the movie by the same title too, I’ve seen it many times.

[@ameliagodfrey3136]

Our lady and now we have Chris Stapleton for our hometown guy. Our main town is paintsville Ky with all our little surrounding places. I am from West Van Lear right next to Van Lear. Our little town has some huge stars with great voices.

[@sharonstark1014]

She is one of the first women of country music. She grew up in Kentucky, got married at 15 and had 6 children and has won numerous awards. RIP Loretta. Another country artist I think you guys would like is Barbara Mandrell. She had a solo career and also had a variety show with her 2 sisters in the early 80s. Check out "I was country when country wasn't cool", "Sleeping single in a double Bed" and "IF LOVING YOU is wrong, I don't want to be right."

[@russgilbertson8689]

Loretta Lynn is the Best !!! The movie Coal Miner's Daughter, on her life, I believe won a Academy Award.

[@lindabrewer3243]

Now you need to watch the movie with the same name . It is great!! Sissy Spacek plays Loretta and she does a wonderful job. Loretta had a sense of humor and Sissy captured that several times in the movie. Any song you pick of Loretta's will be a winner, trust me.

[@mrsd1095]

True story of her life. Amazing human being. Glad I got to see her before she passed. She was born not far from where I grew up.

[@patst1944]

Loretta write this song, I believe she wrote all her songs. You should watch the movie “Coal Miners Daughter”, it is her life story. Great reaction.

[@upwithdowns]

Yes. Poverty does not discriminate. I grew up very poor, but I learned to work. I had a job, raised 3 children and learned to swing a hammer. My husband and I have built a house and barn together. Our children watched while we worked full time jobs during the day and built into the night to make a good home for them. They're grown now but they remember and appreciate what we did. I thank God every day for his love and grace

[@kimberleedavis7170]

A friend of mine put the essence of this song perfectly. The real unsung heroes in this world are the men and women who get up everyday and go out do a job that hate to provide for their families without complaint because they love.

[@denisewelden9568]

I grew up on old school country like this!! I love Loretta, Patsy, Dolly, Tanya & more!! My first concert was Loretta Lynn when I was 11!! I'm 55 now so that's telling, but I love her and her passing was hard for me!!

[@marciaolson4878]

There was no better story teller than Loretta Lynne! She was fantastic and REAL! Tx for this reaction, this woman has deserved absolutely everyone’s respect! In case you can’t tell, she’s my favorite!❤❤❤❤❤