She met and married Doolittle “Mooney” Lynn when she was just 15 years old and became pregnant with their first of six children at age 16. She penned the 1970 hit song “ Coal Miner’s Daughter” about growing up poor in a one-room log cabin in rural Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. Throughout her storied career, Lynn often wrote about her life’s ups and downs. Like many of her hits, “Fist City” resonated because it candidly spotlighted an issue many women faced in silence.Īccording to a statement, Lynn also donated a 1960s yellow gingham dress she sewed herself and a photo of her wearing the dress while signing autographs a red gown, designed by Tim Cobb, that she wore in 2003 at the 26th Kennedy Center Honors first edition copies of her autobiographies Coal Miner’s Daughter and Still Woman Enough and other items. Once home, Lynn stormed straight past her husband into her home office and wrote three pages of lyrics for the song. As she angrily made the 75-mile drive back home to Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, she began writing about the situation in her head. In the case of “Fist City,” inspiration struck in the form of rumors that her husband hadn’t been true to her while she was recording music in Nashville. … I just wrote about what I knew, and what I knew usually involved something that somebody did to me.” “Most songwriters tended to write about falling in love, breaking up and being alone, things like that,” Lynn told the Wall Street Journal’s Marc Myers in 2016.

Sony Music Entertainment’s Legacy Recordings division, which released Lynn’s newest album, Still Woman Enough, in March 2021, announced the donation on April 14-the artist’s 90th birthday. When the country music star suspected her husband was cheating on her, she wrote an upbeat tune warning the other woman to steer clear “if you don’t wanna go to Fist City.” It was a hit: The 1968 song spent a week atop the Billboard hot country chart and helped solidify Lynn’s reputation as a country chanteuse who penned relatable-and sometimes controversial-songs about women’s real-life experiences.Įarlier this year, the singer’s handwritten lyrics for “Fist City,” as well as other personal items from her six-decade career, joined the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Since January 1 on pay stubs: Abbr.Loretta Lynn, the country music icon who chronicled the lives of working-class women, has died peacefully in her sleep at age 90.

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