Country singing legend, Loretta Lynn has been hospitalized in very serious condition with pneumonia. She is 76 and I know she was just in the hospital like a month ago for some kind of knee surgery. She is one of the greatest. If Hollywood wants to do a remake they could try to remake Coal Miner's Daughter just so a new generation can understand what she did and where Loretta came from. Of course Sissy Spacek was brilliant playing Loretta, but right now I don't think anyone under the age of say 30, probably has any idea who she is unless they are a big country music fan.
Jack White fans know who she is, but I doubt they know her story and what all she went through. I live less than two hours from her dude ranch in Tennessee and met her there several times when I was a girl and my family camped and rode horses there. Back then I knew she was supposed to be a famous singer, but she just seemed like a nice, regular lady to me. In the early and mid 80s, she hung around the campground and general store there quite a bit. Her kids worked there.
ReplyDeleteI love that movie. I rewatch it every time I catch it on TV.
ReplyDeleteShe really did have an amazing life.
I'm not a country music fan, but Loretta Lynn is talented in a way few others are. Sissy Spacek's performance as Loretta can't be touched. No remakes, they would only pale by comparison.
ReplyDeleteHoping for a full and quick recovery for Loretta.
Don't care for country music, but I love her. What a tough life she's had, including the death of one of her kids by drowning, I think--I'm too lazy to look it up.
ReplyDeleteGet well soon, Loretta.
I love her and hope she recovers. I passed up a chance to see her in concert this summer because it started too late and I didn't want to deal with the drunk crowds. Stupid of me.
ReplyDeleteI got to see her once about 20 years ago, the concert took place in a community auditorium (read: small) and also featured the amazing voice of Ray Price. She is incredible. She's so natural, warm and friendly on the stage, it's as if you were sitting in her kitchen listening to her tell you her stories while cooking dinner.
ReplyDeleteI think Sissy Spacek can not be outdone in that role, and I'm sick of all the remakes anyway.
I got to go to her ranch as part of tourist thing, shoot, it's been 25 years ago now. Doolittle was still alive, I saw him and we got to see her do a concert. Her ranch was the best, there was a bridge there and you could look down into the river below and see some major fish in there. It was an unforgettable day.
ReplyDeleteUh oh, pneumonia in your 70s... :( I hope she gets better. I like her because she wasn't afraid to speak out about feminist issues such as birth control in a time when most people wouldn't talk about it publicly, and CERTAINLY not a WOMAN. I remember reading about some issue I didn't agree with her on, though I cant' remember what it was, but in general I love her fearlessness and, to put it a bit rudely, her giant balls. lol
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ReplyDeleteI am also not a country music fan (except for Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash, if ya want to call em country) but I respect Loretta Lynn as a survivor and someone who accomplished amazing things in life, despite or maybe because of where she came from.
ReplyDeleteAlso,I think she looks like Glenda the Good Witch in that picture, and that makes me doubly in love with her :))
I got to have a conversation with Loretta years ago and she is one of the most honest people I've ever met and one of the most lovable, too!
ReplyDeletei am 32, hate country, and i know who she is! well, i hate NEW country, i used to listen to old country with my grandpa when i was a little girl, which is probably why i am so familiar with her. but she IS legendary!
ReplyDeleteSort of OT, but Sissy Spacek has still got that magic - she was amazing in The Help.
ReplyDeleteI loathe country music (with the exception of Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash like Jasmine said) but MAN I lived Coal Miners Daughter.
ReplyDeletePlease Hollywood, no remake featururing Mile Cyrus or some other "singer".
I also loathe country music, but Loretta is a classic. (Along with Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty - the old guard)
ReplyDelete(Did you know Conway started out in rock & roll?)
No more remakes. Coal Miner's Daughter does NOT need to be remade. It was flawless.
I got to see her in concert at House of Blues a couple of years ago, she was great. I think she was wearing that exact dress actually. They carried a giant gold wicker chair on stage for her to sit in, she kicked her shoes off almost immediately and sat in it and sang.
ReplyDeleteOne of her sons was in her band, and her twin daughters sang with her. The son kept making jokes about drinking, which were funny until I looked him up and found out he killed someone in a car accident while drunk.
What Jasmine said.
ReplyDeleteI remember watching that movie years ago and having a profound respect for Ms. Lynn...and even now when I look at her (as in this picture), I think there is a resemblance to Spacek...that's how great Sissy was!
My then-girlfriend loved that movie and watched it often enough that after a while, I could recite most of it. We ended up visiting Butcher Holler and Hurricane Mills.
ReplyDeleteI heard that when she visited the set of CM'sD one day and saw Levon Helm in his coal miner's get-up, he looked so much like her father that she fainted. PLEASE don't try to re-make that movie. You can't.
Her and Mooney, that is a love story. And I don't think anyone could touch Sissy's performance as Loretta.
ReplyDeleteWonderful, beautiful woman AND an original talented performer.
I haven't listened to much of her music (besides her stuff with Jack White) but I know she is hugely revered and I hope she gets well soon.
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