Country star Loretta Lynn, who died Tuesday, spoke candidly about life on the road and, 'The Pill,' in her 1976 Union interview.
Country star Loretta Lynn, who died Tuesday, spoke candidly about life on the road and, “The Pill,” in her 1976 Union interview.Loretta Lynn Tells All—Except How Old She IsLoretta Lynn’s deep blue eyes glowed softly in the half-light of her private bus and the warmth from the fire inside her easily defeated the cold draft of the air conditioner.
The show had been a triumph both for her and Twitty. Loretta performed for a full hour, her face floating in a wavy sea of brown hair, singing the songs that made her famous as a woman to be reckoned with.
Twitty’s voice, rich, but with just a touch of sandpaper to give it character, seemed a bit stiff though his first few numbers, particularly in his stilted version of Chuck Berry’s “Maybelline,” but it loosened and warmed up by the time he got to “I’ve Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me” and “Linda On My Mind.”
“There was one fella in there tryin’ to make me tell my age. I asked him if he was sellin’ insurance, ‘cause if he wasn’t sellin’ insurance, he didn’t have to know,” she laughed as she sat in a small booth at the front of the bus. It was the only question she wouldn’t answer. “The disc jockeys are playing what they like, and not what the people like. It’s just one man’s opinion, and that’s not right.”
Would she ever like to quit, she was asked. She nodded, “People won’t hardly let you quit. Anyway, this is all I know, so I got to go on.” Does she ever feel trapped by a life that keeps her on the road all but five weeks a year? “Uh huh. Most people would, if the truth was known.”
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