The Queen of Country Music! “Fist City”, “The Pill”, “You Ain’t Woman enough to take my Man”

This song is autobiographical, being raised “Dirt Poor” is and was a real thing for many Appalachian Americans 💕

Loretta Lynn is a country legend. She is a singer songwriter 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 last year.

Loretta Lynn was the essence of country music

FYI there is a movie of the same name about Loretta's earlier life and career. My dad met her several times and adored her. Loretta wasn't afraid to tell the story that others shied away from. Check out her songs The Pill, Don't Come Home Drinking, You Ain't Woman Enough and her duet with the legendary Conway Twitty Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man.

She wrote most of her songs, except for some her duets. She was so straightforward about certain subjects that some of her songs were boycotted by radio stations. She spoke the truth about a woman's life, and we loved her for it.

Loretta got wealthy as a singing star, so she returns to the home that she grew up in. Nothing was left, but the floor and the memories. You have to see the movie Coal Miners Daughter.

Loretta Lynn is my absolute favorite! She wrote 90% of her songs all from real life experiences. She married her husband Oliver "Doo" Lynn at age 15 and 4 kids by 20. She was best friends with Patsy Cline. A lot of her songs are from her marriage. Some of my favorites are "Fist City" "Don't Come Home Drinkin with Lovin on Your Mind" and "Your Squaw is On the War Path" and the song she wrote when her husband died "I can't Hear the Music Anymore".

I am 59 and love all kinds of music. But I grew up on these old country artists bcz that’s what my parents listened to. I saw many of them in person including her. Loretta is my all time favorite of these oldies. She holds a special place in my heart. I have a country playlist on my Spotify and have quite a few of Loretta’s songs on there so I still listen to her all the time. The movie is one of my all time favorites too of course!

Loretta was wonderful and the movie is great. R.I.P

Can't get anymore real and genuine than Loretta

She was always Miss Loretta Lynn until the day she died.

If you want to know more about her life, watch the movie "Coal Miner's Daughter" where Sissy Spaceck plays Loretta , and does a great job with it.

Fist City whole different side of Loretta ❤ y'all's reactions

True stories are the base for all her songs she sang about real life and that is why she was and still is so popular I am 56 yr old Hair Band and Classic Rock guy but I will listen to the Queen of Country Music anytime.

met her in person just a sweet down to earth classy lady

I loved the movie Coal Miner’s Daughter with Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn and Beverly D’Angelo as Patsy Cline…loved that sound track…

She was raised about an hour from where I live she’s a legend in Kentucky

Loretta WAS country music. There’s a huge catalogue here for you. Fist City, Love Is The Foundation, Rated X. ❤

Love Loretta! My wife's favorite singer.

Loretta is country as country can be. Who else could take the words tired and hard and make you believe they rhyme? All in all she had 14 songs that were banned by radio at some point. One of the most popular is The Pill.

I live a couple hours north of Butcher Hollow Kentucky here in Ohio Loretta was great

She was quite the beauty in this video. Loved her spirit and dedication to her husband. I wish I could find a woman as dedicated as she was, from the stories I've heard.

Also Crystal Gail is her relative had several hits in the 80s and is also a great singer known for her long strait hair

She is one of the original queens of country music along with Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton. Like Dolly, Loretta wrote her own songs. If you can, check out the movie of the same name with Sissy Spacek as Loretta.

Is she not the most 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁 thing? ♡

She is the TRUE QUEEN OF COUNTRY! RIP Sweet Lady!

The Queen of country

Ive only been to 4 concerts in my whole life,all Loretta Lynn, 1980 in Broward County Far,1981 ,then in 2005 in Asheville NC and 2012 at the Biltmore Estate at Asheville.She was the best # singer,lived a hard life,Patsy Cline took her under her wing and they wer close for about 2 years until mPatsy Death in a plane crash in 1963,Patsy Cline was just 30,Loretta Lynn was never the same again. Plase do more Loretta Lynn and Please live shows ,you gotts see her live,she glows.THanks for your great work.

As a Kentucky boy born and raised and from a holler, thank you for this reaction

I saw her live about 10 years ago. She came our did a few songs and then said to the audience, let me know what you want to hear and she did songs that were called out from us. She sounded great

The Queen of Country Music, Ms. Loretta Lynn! Bow down!

It's really a tribute to people making the best of their circumstances for their family, mostly through uncompromisingly endless hard labor. But managing to keep a positive attitude around. It's something to be honored...

She wrote most of her songs, except for some her duets. She was so straightforward about certain subjects that some of her songs were boycotted by radio stations. She spoke the truth about a woman's life, and we loved her for it. 19 BARS & BARBELLS Reply

My maternal family is from Kentucky. At 61 I grew up on "classic country".

Back in the 1960's we hardly ever knew what the artists looked like. Maybe on the record cover or a guest on tv shows. Maybe a fan magazine. No mtv. What you guys do is so great. But 24/7 availability is wonderful. Also people have much more expendable income now! Appreciate this age your in!!😊❤

This song always brings back the memory of seeing the Loretta Lynn biographical movie "Coal Miner's Daughter" at the drive-in movie theatre back around 1980 or so. It is still one of my favorite country songs--and movies. If y'all get the chance to watch the film, I highly suggest doing so.

Absolutely Love Loretta's music. Song is a true account of her young life.

Reminds me of my dad's family. One generation ago in Appalachia.

Great because it truly was her life!

There is a movie called Coal miners daughter!! U all should watch she had shes been trough a lot!! Her and Pasty Cline were best friends and one of her Twins are named Pasty after Pasty Cline.

The great Loretta Lynn! You really need to listen to more of her songs. You won't be sorry! The most songs to be banned by radio stations in Country Music. Loretta didn't care & each song became a hit anyway. Once you hear more of Loretta, you'll understand why. The female singers that opened the door for future female singers are as follows 1 Kitty Wells 2 Patsy Cline 3 Loretta Lynn 4 Dolly Parton 5 Tammy Wynette The best of the best in Country Music. You definitely need to watch the movie "Coal Miner's Daughter". Loretta has tons of songs. Also, you have to check out her duets with Conway Twitty. My favorite duet is "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" Also ck out "Lead me on" "After the fire is gone" "From 7 til 10" "As soon as l hang up the phone" "I still believe in waltz" "I can't love you enough" "The letter" That's just a few. Sorry this got so long. Conway & Loretta are my favorite duet team.

met her at her home at hurricane mills, an old southern mansion between nashvill and memphis. beautiful place. we were standing on the road and she hollered at us to come up and we talked to her about 15 minutes. very sweet lady

That same hard working dad gave us Crystal Gale as well. Two daughters with number one hits, isn't bad for old guy.

This is such an important song in the history of Country Music, and Loretta is one of the Original Women of Country. Loretta was an outlaw…she wrote of her hard life, real life issues, and fought to have her songs heard! The Pill Fist City

Really hard times for the times in life..imagine what's to come if you don't fall in line with times today..good job guys

Lo-Retta! Now we're talkin' Country.

Mine was the hills of Alabama and Tennessee, but same situation. Dirt poor, desperately so, I have a pic of my great-grandma standing on the porch of her shack somewhere in the hills of NE Alabama sometime around the Depression. For those of us who came from this, Loretta isn't music, she's culture.

The "Coal Miner's Daughter" movie, was made in 1980. Starred Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones. A must see.

Another great song about growing up in and around the coal mines is the song by Patty Loveless “ You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive” performed live at the Austin City Limits. This is a very touching song and I think you both would enjoy it.

Loved her and the movie❤

She had so.e great song by herself n duets. My personal fave is BLUE KENTUCKY GIRL! Would love it if you reacted to that one

Y’all must watch the Movie! Very powerful to”learn” about Loretta.

Check out the fiesty side of Loretta Lynn with these 6 songs in order: 1. You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man 2. Fist City 3 . Ruby's Stool She was a tiny, sweet yet outspoken lady who didn't have a problem fighting some woman messing with her husband! Oh, there were also songs about and physical fights with husband, too. But, they really did love each other. He eventually stopped cheating. She put her career on a 10 year hold to take care of him when he got sick and eventually died. She said it was "a hard love story". He was her first and only boyfriend, and her first and only husband.

Her song of her early life. Wonderful. My grandparents listen to country so.. there you have it. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.

Loretta Lynn was working on the third or fourth of a 5 album contract , still writing and recording songs, when she passed away at 90. Her motto was Never Stop Working, Never Retire. She had to stop touring in her 80s due to health problems. She went from being born in a 2 room shack, to her Daddy buying a bigger cabin for $600, to getting married and starting a family as a teen, to moving to the state of Washington, to buying a ranch that included a mansion on the property AND THE TOWN OF HURRICANE MILLS, Tennessee! She had a Net Worth of $65MILLION when she passed away...but, stayed as humble as when she was dirt poor. She didn't call us fans...she called us friends! And she gave to us as much of her life (including building a campground for us on her ranch) as she could, trying to repay us for all we had given her life. She was always grateful her children didn't have to grow up poor like she did. A 60 year career, tons of records, tons of awards, tons of fame, and tons of money...and she just stayed Loretta Lynn, The Coal Miner's Daughter from Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. She said she just wanted to be remembered as just a good person. Rest In Peace.

Great stuff, guys! If you get a chance to see the fabulous movie Coal Miner's Daughter starring Cissy Spacek, you'll get the whole story of Loretta Lynn's life and the way she suffered when her friend Patsy Cline was killed.

Had to watch this again. Loved your reaction so much

she has a sister that sang to Crystal Gayle you need to check out her song You Make My Brown Eyes Blue

Loretta was country royalty. Such a beautiful, sweet soul, and incredibly talented to boot. I met her on a USO tour when I was stationed in Germany in the early 80's. I even got a kiss on the cheek! She also did some fantastic duets with Conway Twitty...they were fantastic together. Great reaction! Keep up the great work!

Much love from West Virginia

Please, please, please react to Fist City. This woman was a legendary badass. She has the most Number 1 songs that were hits despite them being banned by country radio. So many of her songs were banned and she didn’t give a sh*t about it.

Loretta has a sister named Crystal Gayle who was also a very successful country singer. (Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue) She was very well known for her loooong hair that went to the floor. Loretta and Crystal are cousins of country music legend Patty Loveless.

She has a Sister that sang also, Crystal Gale

we all consider this old school country for sure, but the performers sure didnt.. they were the new country, and they grew up listening to the old old school country.. and those people grew up listening to the old old old school country, but they didnt have records back then, so we have to just tap our toes in retrospect and imagine it

A great follow up to this would be "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" by Patty Loveless, who's supposedly related to Loretta. I would suggest the live version on a channel called "stormsontheocean". She gives a brief introduction to the song, and gives an amazing performance.. But there's also a recent live performance she did at the award show with Chris Stapleton and his wife.

Listen to The Pill. That song along with a couple of others got her banned from the radio. She was just what she was and she wrote songs that were honest and straight forward.

Loretta said she had written about 12 verses for this song but could only keep a few of them, and unfortunately the lost the rest. The three queens of country music are Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette. Only Dolly is still with us.

That is her natural pattern of speeech. Conway Twitty was her male singing partner for years. They were great together ❣️

From here, you should check out Conway Twitty. He and Loretta had several duets. Any song by him would be great!!

I love her with Conway too!

You should watch the movie Coal Miner's Daughter it is Loretta's life story.

Great reaction. I'd second the recommendations I've seen of Loretta Lynn in the comments. A couple of other songs about the coal miners come to mind. "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" by Patty Loveless and "16 Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford

Y'all should watch the movie about her. Sissy Spacek does an amazing portrayal of her.

Thank you both for listening and keeping her legend alive. I was raised on her music and I loved listening to her music

Patsy Clone was her mentor and friend. She has a younger sister who is also a famous country singer, Crystal Gale.

You should watch the movie about her life. It'😂s called Coal miner's daughter. Her life was amazing! She married at 13 or 14. She wrote some songs that were considered controversial at the time, like The Pill.

She had a lot of hit songs like Don't come home with drinking with on your mind you ain't women enough to take my mind Fist city the pill

The beautiful Miss Lynn grew up in the hills of Eastern Kentucky. Sure made us proud. Always in our heart.

i have been a coal miner for 30 years

Ahhhhh…the legend!! First Lady of country music. You should watch “Coal Miner’s Daughter” with Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones. ❤stayed true to her roots. Wrote SO many songs. 😊

great reaction guys. there was movie with this song as the title based on the life story of loretta lyn that starred sissy spacek and tommy lee jones that was pretty good.

This song was her life...and she is a legend...also of note she's the godmother of modern motorcross..the Loretta Lynn's are happening right now...

She has another song called Van Lear Rose. Which is a song about how her parents met.

Got to see Loretta Lynn with Conway Twitty around 1971 Massey Hall Toronto, check out the two of them sometime, Lead me on might be a good one to start with

awesome!

Thanks for reacting to this one. That's the way it was... Darealdeal

There is a very specific region of Appalachia where rhyming the words hard and tired is perfectly normal. She is from that area and so is half of my family.

An interesting connection with Peter Frampton: Pete Drake played lap steel for Loretta Lynn and gave Frampton his first talk box.

My grandparents were from west Tennessee but were still very poor as kids. I remember my Grandmother talking about being a sharecropper and having nothing to eat but wild plants. Grandaddy telling of working on the State road crew for 50 cents a day and being glad to get it.

Loretta was a great friend of patsy cline she named two of her daughters patsy and cline

I live about 30 minutes from Butcher Holler

Loretta had 14 of her songs banned from the radio. That never kept them from going to number 1, though. She tackled subjects that were considered taboo and she also pissed many male dj's off in her day with her truths...lol! Listen to songs like 'The Pill,' 'You Ain't Woman Enough,' 'Don't Come Home A Drinkin,' and 'Your Squaw is on the Warpath' to get a sampling of why she was way ahead of her time!

If you're a history buff you'd probably enjoy the songs of Johnny Horton. Battle of New Orleans, Sink the Bismark, Johnny Reb, North to Alaska. Whispering Pines is my favorite. He was killed in an auto accident at the age of 35. He was married to the widow of Hank Williams who died a few years before at the age of 29 in the backseat of a car from an overdose.

Beautiful lady inside and out but she’s a bad ass as well ❤

Phil, if you’re a history buff…the movie Coal Miners Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones is well worth the watch!!! It’s a classic example of what talent and a LOT of hard work can get you! Plus her close friendship with Patsy Cline is showcased. Life was just as tough in the early years of her married life and career as it was in Butcher Holler! She was one determined lady and we are all better off because of it!!?

She was great! You should watch coal Miner’s daughter, the movie. Sissy Spacek, stars in it, and she did an amazing job!

Y'all should watch the movie "Coal Miner's Daughter" Sissy Spacek played Loretta Lynn and actually SANG all the songs in the movie. And the actress that played Patsy Cline in the movie also sang the Patsy Cline songs. There's also a movie about Patsy Cline.

I would like to see y'all react to Elvis' "Love Me" performance on the Ed Sullivan Show and "Trying to Get to You", which i believe he performed for his '68 Comeback Special.

Patsy cline and Loretta Lynn were best friends