You know, Country & Western!
This ain't your Dad's country music. It's your Granddad's! None of that new Nashville bullshit either. This is where you'll find what I consider the best in Country (Classic and Alt), Folk, and Americana.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I can’t imagine their managers showed them this before it went out because…oooooof.
Country music ain’t country anymore, but that’s ok,” she said. ” Used to be country music was not just a sound but also a life. An artist brought who they were and where they were from to their music. It defined them and their songs. But everything changes and we grow. I guess now with folks getting to hear so many kinds of music it’s all mixed together. Remember how people didn’t like when Elvis came along? Could you imagine no Elvis? There are some great singers out there and great songs.
Loretta Lynn, center, accepts the Female Vocalist of the Year award at the seventh annual Country Music Awards show at the Grand Ole Opry House. Looking on are presenters Merle Haggard, left, and Glen Campbell on Oct. 15, 1973.
Dang, I shoulda posted this the other day when I was ranting about the CMAs.
Happy Halloween!
Loretta & Ernest cutting a track. (What the hell does he have in his shirt pockets?)
Loretta Lynn - She’s Got You
Loretta channels Patsy on some Frank Sinatra TV Special.
Plus! A truly awful DISCO duet of Frank and Loretta singing All or Nothing At All (in Loretta’s case, All or Nothin’ At All). So bad that I couldn’t even finish watching it.
Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner’s Daughter
From the Johnny Cash Show
You guys must’ve given him a lot of traffic from his Outlaw Country Men set because Joshua Norton emailed to let me know that he made a set of Outlaw Country Ladies.
“If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it’s none of their business!”
- Loretta Lynn on fibbing about her age for the last 60+ years.
Because a 13 year old mother is more scandalous than 16 - even for a hillbilly.
Conway & Loretta wax figures
Loretta Lynn - Wings Upon Your Horns (2) (by kkiilljjooy)
Performed and written by Loretta Lynn. Loretta, the coal miner’s daughter, is famously from “Butcher Holler”, a section of Van Lear, a mining community near Paintsville, Johnson County, Kentucky.
Loretta Lynn & Conway “Polka Dot” Twitty
