Vol. 11 Issue 15 Feb. 2, 2005

life story is a rags-to-riches tale familiar to pop, star rock and country fans alike. The Coal Miner’s Daughter, referring to a hit single, an , a best- to entertain at selling autobiog- raphy, an Oscar- St. Bonaventure winning film, and to Lynn herself, ickets will go on sale Saturday for Loretta has journeyed Lynn in concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, March from the poverty T13, in the Reilly Center Arena at St. of the Bonaventure University. hills to Ticket sales begin at 10 a.m. at the St. superstardom. Bonaventure University Reilly Center Ticket She was born Office. Special ticket sale hours for the Reilly in Butcher Holler, Center Ticket Office will be from 10 a.m. until 3 Ky., the second of p.m. this Saturday only. Tickets for the concert, Clara and Ted for which WPIG-95.7 Radio is serving as the Webb’s eight chil- Photo courtesy of Russ Harrington welcoming station, are also available at all Tops dren. Just as she Loretta Lynn Friendly Markets, by phone at (888) 223-6000, would later sing in or online at tickets.com. “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” Loretta’s family eked All seats for Loretta Lynn are reserved. Floor, out a living during the Depression on the “poor bleacher and lower red seating are $35 each man’s dollar” her father managed to earn and upper red seating is $29.50. For more infor- “work[ing] all night in the Van Lear coal mine mation, please call ext. 2500. [and] all day long in the field a-hoein’ corn.” As “St. Bonaventure University is proud to pres- she also notes in that song, “I never thought of ent country music icon Loretta Lynn live in con- leavin’ Butcher Holler.” But that was before she cert,” said Steve Plesac, director of student met Oliver Lynn, who Lynn called “Doo,” a 21- activities. “With 70 , 55 top-10 singles year-old who swept the young Loretta Webb off and 27 No. 1 singles, even calling her an icon her feet. The couple married when Loretta was seems somewhat limiting.” barely 14. Her just-released album, “ ” is Influenced by artists such as and receiving critical acclaim, including four stars , Lynn soon fashioned her distinctive from magazine. The magazine style — a mature fusion of twang, grit, energy credits , founding member of the and libido — an approach she first perfected in rock group White Stripes, with helping to create the songs of other writers. her best album since the . White As the ’60s turned into the ’70s, Lynn forever describes Lynn as “the greatest female singer of solidified her reputation as an advocate for ordi- the 20th century.” nary women. Lynn’s music is known for confronting many of the major social issues of her time, and her See LYNN, page 2 best conveyed the complexity of women’s lives. In “I Wanna Be Free,” Loretta reveled in the possibilities a divorce might bring (“I’m gonna LYNN take this chain from around my finger, and throw it just as far as I can sling ‘er”), while in continued from page 1 “Rated X” she complained that new divorcees were inevitably treated like easy women. Each of the above songs was a Top Three Typically, Lynn’s brand of women’s libera- country hit between 1968 and 1975, and tion was attuned specifically to the lives of her Loretta Lynn (to paraphrase the title of a 1970 blue-collar audience, the wives and mothers album) both wrote ‘em and sang ‘em. who were far too overwhelmed by the demands The same was true, of course, of her signa- of, say, childcare to place much stock in sym- ture song, the 1970 chart-topper “Coal Miner’s bolic foolishness like bra burning. Indeed, Daughter,” which chronicled for all time the while a guest on The Dick Frost Show, Lynn strides women were making in these years — once famously dozed off while listening to the from country to city, from home to workforce upper-middle class feminist Betty Friedan talk and, in Lynn’s case, from “girl-singer” to theory with the show’s host. superstar. Lynn was more interested in life as it was Lynn won two Best Female Vocalist awards lived — in the kitchen and in the bedroom — from the Country Music Association and was by millions of working-class women everyday. the first woman to win the CMA’s most presti- For example, “One’s on the Way,” a Shel gious award, . Silverstein-penned hit from 1971, let Lynn She won her first Vocal Duo of the Year voice the concerns of a harried Topeka woman, award in 1972, with , and worn out from raising her kids, cleaning the through the next decade, Lynn appeared on house, and dealing with a husband with the cover of , her autobiography enough free time to be calling her from a bar became a New York Times Bestseller and in while she’s home making dinner. 1980, was made into a hit film starring Sissy But it was with her own songs that Loretta Spacek and .

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