Oct
13
Loretta Lynn’s Earned Her Work Schedule
Loretta Lynn photo courtesy of Interscope Records.
Anyone who’s seen the Loretta Lynn biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter knows she earned her first hit single when she and her husband, Oliver “Doolittle” Lynn, drove around the country visiting radio stations in a cramped automobile.
That was in 1960. Almost 50 years later, she’s still working regularly, though she gets to pick and choose when, where and how often she does.
“I don’t have to work, so I work when I want to,” she told The Birmingham News. “I stay home and it bothers me… But I have it good on the road now, not like when I started. I have my bus fixed up just like a home, with five TVs in it. There’s a complete kitchen, a complete bathroom and a half-bathroom. It’s all my own.”
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