Loretta Lynn photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

When Loretta Lynn showed up on Wednesday’s Country Music Association Awards, a lot of anniversaries lined up in the process.

She’s currently celebrating 50 years as an entertainer. And 40 years ago, she was on the national country charts with the biggest hit of her career, “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” the song she sang on the awards with Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow.

Sissy Spacek had a role in the CMA tribute, too, and even that marked an anniversary, since 2010 is 30 years since the release of the movie Coal Miner’s Daughter.

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Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley rehearse on Monday, Nov. 8 at the Bridgestone Arena in Downtown Nashville for “The 44th Annual CMA Awards,” which will broadcast live on the ABC Television Network on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 8-11PM/ET. Photographer: John Russell / CMA.

Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum — the stars were out in full force for the 44th annual Country Music Association Awards, and Nan Kelley was there. She’ll take you backstage in this weekend’s edition of GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown.

Brad walked off with Entertainer of the Year, Miranda won three times, Blake and Lady A took home two trophies apiece, and the CMA show featured a load of performances from Kenny Chesney, George Strait, The Band Perry, Reba McEntire and Rascal Flatts. If that ain’t enough, you had Sissy Spacek helping pay homage to Loretta Lynn on the same night Gwyneth Paltrow made her live debut as a country singer.

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Loretta Lynn photo courtesy of Interscope Records.

This fall will mark a whopping 40 years since Loretta Lynn hit radio waves with “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” but the song is enduring enough that it made news in not just one, but two different ways on Wednesday.

For starters, the book that carried the same name, Coal Miner’s Daughter, will be reissued in September by Vintage Books, which will market the autobiography as a paperback, an e-book and an audio book, narrated by Sissy Spacek. Sissy is, of course, a natural for that job, since she won an Oscar for portraying Loretta in the movie that was built around the book and even got a Grammy nomination for her own recording of “Coal Miner.” The movie, in fact, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

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