You know, Country & Western!
This ain't your Dad's country music. It's your Granddad's! None of that new Nashville bullshit either. This is where you'll find what I consider the best in Country (Classic and Alt), Folk, and Americana.
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ITEM! Mixtapes! Check 'em out and share with yer pals:
Twang/Twinge of Love
That Christmas Spirit
No Permanent Address
No Permanent Address 2
5,000 countryandwestern Fans Can't Be Wrong
Valentine's Day for Lovers
Valentine's Day for Losers
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
You guys must’ve given him a lot of traffic from his Outlaw Country Men set because Joshua Norton emailed to let me know that he made a set of Outlaw Country Ladies.
“If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it’s none of their business!”
- Loretta Lynn on fibbing about her age for the last 60+ years.
Because a 13 year old mother is more scandalous than 16 - even for a hillbilly.
Conway & Loretta wax figures
Loretta Lynn - Wings Upon Your Horns (2) (by kkiilljjooy)
Performed and written by Loretta Lynn. Loretta, the coal miner’s daughter, is famously from “Butcher Holler”, a section of Van Lear, a mining community near Paintsville, Johnson County, Kentucky.
Loretta Lynn & Conway “Polka Dot” Twitty
(Source: noirdeoro)
Loretta Lynn & Connie Smith
Congrats to Connie as one of the lastest inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
(Source: tennessean.com)
For my 25th birthday, I finally made the pilgrimage to Loretta Lynn’s Dude Ranch and Plantation Home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. A few lovely ladies accompanied me. Photos here.
Great stuff in the click thru. Putting it on my list of pilgimages.
Loretta Lynn - Color of the Blues
So simple. So true.
Patsy “Loretta Lynn” Cline - Back In Baby’s Arms
With a disco beat even. Strange times.
(Source: skullfuckmusic)
Loretta Lynn - To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man) + Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’ with Lovin’ on Your Mind
These sort of candid videos or pictures of public performances from a different time period are just the best.
Loretta Lynn - One’s On the Way
You think Conway had any qualms about putting that outfit on?
Also, at this point Loretta’s 37 and she’s had 6 kids ranging in age from 22 to 10 with the last two as twins. Thus her last line.
While other female singers like Tammy Wynette were singing about remaining passive women who stood by their men, others like Loretta here and Dolly Parton were actually giving the world a piece of their minds and discussing the realities of what it meant to be a woman. GO GURLS!
Send Loretta your thoughts and prayers!
Loretta Lynn is in the hospital right now battling pneumonia. She’s 76.
Loretta Lynn - Success
