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she packs the halls, and she is a frequent
guest on the most-watched TV shows
of the day. Her concerts with Conway
Twitty and Patsy Cline are hits. She
sings for presidents and crowned heads,
and is voted most admired woman by
a prominent magazine. The university
of her home state bestows an honorary
degree on her. Hard times are far
behind her, and still she pushes herself
to contribute still more. ‘I ain’t ever gone
stop,” she says, “and when I do it’s gonna
be right on stage. That’ll be it.”
She still hasn’t stopped. A second
volume of her autobiography, Still
Woman Enough, is now out. In 1999 she
scored three new hits, Christmas Without
Daddy, I’ll Just Call You Darlin’, and From
Seven Till Ten. The following year she
recorded a new album, Still Country, with
long-time friend Randy Scruggs.
Loretta Lynn succeeded in her
personal life too, bringing up six children
— she now has 29 grandchildren.
And the First Lady of Country is a
formidable businesswoman as well. She
set up the 18 thousand square foot Coal
Miner’s Daughter Museum in Hurricane
Mills, and continues to run the farm that
she and her late husband set up.
Much as she enriched the cultural
heritage of her country, Loretta Lynn
hasn't let show business make her anything
but what she is. “It’s hard enough
to be yourself,” she once said, “without
trying to be someone else.”