Lynn and Twitty had five consecutive No. 1 hits between 1971 and 1975, including "After the Fire Is Gone" (1971), "Lead Me On" (1971), "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" (1973), "As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone" (1974), and "Feelins'" (1974).
Loretta appeared on the cover of the June 18, 1973 edition of Newsweek with the caption: "The Country Music Craze".
Spacek won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Lynn. She also sang all of Lynn's songs for the soundtrack album of Coal Miner's Daughter, which earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
Perhaps the most controversial song of Loretta Lynn's career, "The Pill" was banned by many radio stations due to it's risqué subject matter, but physicians would later tell Loretta that her song had done more to highlight the availability of birth control in isolated, rural areas than all the literature medical organizations had released.
Loretta Lynn had 14 songs banned during her legendary career because of controversial subjects such as birth control ("The Pill"), repeated childbirth ("One's on the Way"), double standards for men and women ("Rated "X""), and being widowed by the draft during the Vietnam War ("Dear Uncle Sam").
Lynn and Nelson performed together at the Farm Aid Concert in 1985. It would be thirty-one years before the two legends were finally able to collaborate again on "Lay Me Down", a song written by Mark Marchetti, Lynn's son-in-law, for her album Full Circle.
Hurricane Mills, billed as "the Seventh Largest Attraction in Tennessee", features a recording studio, museums, lodging, restaurants and western stores. In stark contrast to her humble upbringing, the ranch is so large that it has its own zip code and post office.
The album was produced by Jack White of the White Stripes. It was widely praised by critics, peaking at No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Lynn and White were nominated for five Grammys and won two.
President Obama awarded Loretta the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013, acknowledging her legacy of "courageously breaking barriers in an industry long dominated by men."
"Dear Uncle Sam" was one of the first country singles that dared to broach the subject of the Vietnam War. The song, which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, is told from the perspective of a woman who has just been widowed by the war.
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