patsy cline

17 May 2012

LORETTA LYNN”S LIFE IS AN OPEN SONGBOOK

By Andrew Dansby -MySanantonio.com A representative for Loretta Lynn asks, “Are you ready for Loretta?” before handing the phone to one of the greatest singers and songwriters in the history of American music. Lynn takes the phone. “Ain’t nobody ready for me,” she says and laughs. Lynn is correct. Her unlikely story — that of […]

12 Jan 2009

NASHVILLE MUSIC GARDEN INAUGURAL CLASS INCLUDES COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER

The Nashville Music Garden took root in the Hall of Fame Park, located at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Demonbreun (across from the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum), yesterday with the help of celebrity hosts Barbara Mandrell and Lynn Anderson as well as emcee Ralph Emery in an all-star ceremony befitting a […]

4 Dec 2008

COUNTRY LEGEND LYNN: ‘I JUST KEEP GOING’

By Kellie B. Gormly – TRIBUNE-REVIEW The country music legend who started her life as the Coal Miner’s Daughter now has 21 of her own grandchildren, and more than four decades worth of hit music that she created while raising her large family. At age 74, Loretta Lynn — an iconic figure known as much […]

18 Jun 2008

LORETTA LYNN GETS PATSY CLINE’S APPROVAL

Loretta Lynn was rather famously friends with Patsy Cline when the Coal Miner’s Daughter first moved to Nashville during the early 1960s. Loretta paid tribute to her mentor with the 1977 album I Remember Patsy, but she also got a thumbs-up from the singer for one of her earliest hits. “You Ain’t Woman Enough” was […]