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Country music legend Loretta Lynn passed away this month at the age of 90. Throughout the 1960s and her 1970s, she regularly appeared on the charts, singing and often writing songs about situations in women’s lives.
She performed an important duet about relationship breakdowns, highlighted the challenges divorced women face, and sang about the rise of birth control pills. She was the one who vividly documented growing up as Hardscrabble in her horror of Butcher, Kentucky. She was also one of the genre’s greatest vocal stylists, delivering her heartbreak and grimness with equal confidence.
This week’s popcast explores Lynn’s cunning radicalism and how she was first embraced by the country music industry, the many interpretations and misconceptions of her work, and how the legend ages in public. conversation.