For the second time in a year, Loretta Lynn has had to reschedule a concert in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Lynn was scheduled to perform at the Paramount Theatre tonight, but has postponed the show for a family medical emergency. According to the local CBS station, the new date is scheduled for Thursday, March 27, 2015. Ticket holders can keep their current tickets or seek a refund.
There's no word on what the family emergency is, but last month I had a reader ask me on Facebook what was wrong with Loretta's daughter Cissie, so I wonder if perhaps it has to do with her.
What is wrong with CISSY LYNN, daughter of LORETTA LYNN? I've been seeing a lot of prayer request for her, the last couple days.
A quick check of Facebook shows that one of Loretta's daughters, Peggy, asked for prayers for her sister Cissie who is set to have surgery this Friday.
It's not clear what is wrong with Cissie, but she commented on the surgery on Facebook herself back on 9/2, saying:
I truly want to thank each and everyone of you for your thoughts and prays . I will be having surgery Friday it's a very long process but I know god will be holding my hands though out my recovery I love you all thanks you for being my friend and caring about me hopeful I will be able to sing again in a few months . Love to all cissie
Thoughts and prayers going out to Loretta and all of her family and fingers crossed that poor Cedar Rapids will eventually get their long-awaited Loretta Lynn concert.
Loretta Lynn hit the grounds of the White House today looking pretty damn fierce.
The 81-year-old living legend is in the nation's capital today to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, from President Obama. The prestigious award is presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.
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Ouch. If you've ever suffered a broken rib then you know the last thing you want to do is actually move, so I couldn't imagine having to get up on stage and perform.
Unfortunately, Loretta Lynn suffered two broken ribs (ouch x2) over the long Labor Day weekend and ended up having to cancel shows this weekend in Oklahoma.
Loretta let fans know about the cancellation as well as how she hurt herself on Facebook.
**Weekend Shows Cancelled**
I've had to cancel my shows in Oklahoma this weekend. I hate more than anything to miss shows, but sometimes you just have to.
I’m like an accident waiting to happen these days. I was trying to get my guitar down out of my closest and the dang thing fell on top of me causing me to fall into my dresser. All this happened right before my big Labor Day Concert at my Ranch in Hurricane Mills. I didn’t know how bad I hurt myself until the next day. Come to find out I had broken two of my ribs. We are rescheduling the shows now, I hate more than anything to have to miss shows, but it’s something you just have to do.
I just hope everyone comes back to see me in OK.
At least she's okay and I'm sure will be back in action soon enough. Her next scheduled show is in Florida on September 13.
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Today, President Barack Obama named sixteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of which just happens to be Loretta Lynn.
According to the press release, the Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. The awards will be presented at the White House later this year.
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This is so sad. No one should ever outlive their children, even if that child is 64.
It was revealed on Monday that Loretta Lynn's oldest daughter, 64-year-old Betty Sue Lynn, had passed away from complications of emphysema.
Posted on Loretta's website was:
The Lynn Family appreciates all your prayers, love, and support of our family’s loss. Betty was Loretta’s oldest daughter. Betty leaves two daughters Lynn Markworth and Audrey Dyer.
Heartbreaking. My condolences go out to Loretta and her whole family.
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The hills will ring with the glorious sounds of Gospel music as Loretta
Lynn welcomes fans to the inaugural “Loretta Lynn’s Gospel
Music Festival” to be held at her Hurricane Mills,
TN ranch September 28-29, 2013.
The Country music icon has a well-documented love of Gospel music and has consistently shared music of faith in her concerts and recordings. Now, for the first time, she welcomes the music to her home as the top acts in Gospel music plan to perform during the two-day inspirational event.
“Its kind of like an old-time “all-day singing and dinner on the ground,” says Ms. Lynn. “I got to thinking. I have a big ranch where I live so I decided to throw a good ole Gospel weekend here! I want family and friends to bring a blanket, set up a picnic and then enjoy some of my favorite Gospel music singers! I may even come down and sing a song myself! I hope it will be something we can keep going every year. I already have a big campground and cabins where people can stay. We also have a big stage - we have concerts all summer and have done so since 1974.”
Back at the beginning of the year word hit that Loretta Lynn had recorded Poison's classic tune Every Rose Has Its Thorn for Bret Michaels' new solo project, "Jammin' With Friends." Now the time has come for that album to be released.
Jammin' With Friends will be available in stores and online on Tuesday, June 25th. You can purchase it on iTunes and Amazon
With the tragic passing of legend George Jones, Country music now has a void.
Who can possibly fill his shoes? With the Possum no longer blessing us with his gorgeous voice, who is now the best living Country singer?
Well, Brad Paisley recently weighed in on the topic (in an interview with Country 92.5), and he says Carrie Underwood is the best. Do you think he's right on the money?
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Photograph by: Jason Lang, Vancouver Courier
Most people know Loretta Lynn's story from the Oscar winning film about her life, 'Coal Miner's Daughter', but there appears to be a bit of a discrepancy about how she got her start that varies from the movie/autobiographical version of events.
And now that alternative version of Loretta's iconic career is being remembered and honored in Vancouver, British Columbia.
According to The Vancouver Courier, there's a little old bungalow in South Vancouver, Canada that used to have a chicken coop that was converted into a party place back many, many years ago. Much of the history of that party coop is lost to time, but Rob Howatson, the writer of The Vancouver Courier piece, was able to interview several people, including Loretta herself, about the coop.
The Coop, which no longer exists, was once a real happening place where many country musicians would go to play when they had nothing else to do. One fateful day, a very young Loretta Lynn headed over the border to Canada and attended a jam session at the coop where she was discovered by two music execs.
Mike Harling will be at the plaque party. He was the first writer to track down the former location of the Chicken Coop in 2002 after his friend, sports historian Fred Hume, told him that Kentucky-born Lynn had a connection to the city through local football pioneer and sawmill owner Norm Burley. “Loretta lived in Washington State in the 1950s and she played any gig she could get, on both sides of the border, before she moved to Nashville and made it big,” says the soft-spoken Harling. “The First Lady of Country likes to say that Burley discovered her when he saw Loretta sing ‘Whispering Sea’ on Buck Owens TV show out of Tacoma, but in fact it was two music producers from Thunder Bay, Ontario who spotted her at the Coop and signed her to Zero Records.”
This story is different than the Coal Miner's Daughter story and even what Loretta herself says happened. One of the two music execs who claimed to have discovered Loretta was more than a little bitter about it all.
Don Grashey was the president of the tiny label when it began, and his longtime business partner Chuck Williams was the vice-president. They were stunned when Lynn published her first autobiography, Coal Miner’s Daughter in 1976 and it contained only a passing mention of Grashey and no word about The Coop. Harling interviewed the two veteran record men a few years before they passed away in 2005 and Grashey, a Canadian Country Music Association Hall of Famer, was still bitter. “I would like her [Lynn] to tell the truth, instead of the bullshit that was in the movie and in her book. Norm Burley did nothing. He was just a shareholder who had some money. That’s all he was, y’know. I did all the god darned work. I signed her and I produced her and I published her songs and I promoted her god darned record [I’m A Honky Tonk Girl] to number 14 on the Billboard and I got nothing out of it, but a bunch of bullshit.”
It's a pretty interesting story to read.
All that he said, she said, he said aside, the coop no longer exists, but the house still does and on September 16, a plaque across the street will commemorate this little known piece of country music history where Loretta Lynn was or wasn't officially discovered.
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