When Lynn goes on the road, three of her kids are by her side: Ernest, her oldest, was her manager for a time, and still performs with her; Loretta's twins Patsy and Peggy, known professionally as the Lynns, sing with her in her act. At 67, Lynn still sings from her heart. Thos...
But Lynn’s talent would carry her through. Her first album, Loretta Lynn Sings (1963), reached No. 2 on the country charts and was followed by a string of Top 10 country hits, including “Wine, Women and Song” and “Blue Kentucky Girl.” Soon recording her own material alongside stan...
All that said, the judges voted unanimously to send Russell through to the next round ofIdolcompetition, meaning that she's headed to Hollywood. Who is Emmy Russell? Emmy Russell is the daughter of Patsy Lynn Russell and her husband Phillip. Patsy and her twin sister Peggy are the youngest ...
As a vocalist, Lynn may have carried on the stylings of her idol Kitty Wells, but when it came to songwriting, the untrained musician struck out on a path all her own. Her husband's wandering eye gave life to classics like "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)," "Fist City"...
She wrote in her autobiography that she was 13 when she got married to Oliver “Mooney” Lynn, but the APlater discovered state recordsthat showed she was 15. Tommy Lee Jones played Mooney Lynn in the biopic. Her husband, whom she called “Doo” or “Doolittle,” urged her to sing prof...
” That strong-willed but traditional country woman reappears in other Lynn songs. In “The Pill,” a song about sex and birth control, Lynn sings about how she’s sick of being trapped at home to take care of babies: “The feelin’ good comes easy now/Since I’ve got the pill,...
” That strong-willed but traditional country woman reappears in other Lynn songs. In “The Pill,” a song about sex and birth control, Lynn sings about how she’s sick of being trapped at home to take care of babies: “The feelin’ good comes easy now/Since I’ve got the pill,...
” That strong-willed but traditional country woman reappears in other Lynn songs. In “The Pill,” a song about sex and birth control, Lynn sings about how she’s sick of being trapped at home to take care of babies: “The feelin’ good comes easy now/Since I’ve got the pill,”...
” That strong-willed but traditional country woman reappears in other Lynn songs. In “The Pill,” a song about sex and birth control, Lynn sings about how she’s sick of being trapped at home to take care of babies: “The feelin’ good comes easy now/Since I’ve got the pill,”...
But it’s her first appearance on the Opry stage that she’ll never forget. Just a teenager then, Gayle filled in for an ailing Lynn after her husband Doolittle petitioned the Opry to let Gayle take her place. She sang Gordon Lightfoot’s “Ribbon of Darkness,” a 1965 chart-topper tha...