{"id":2399,"date":"2010-06-04T07:04:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T07:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:56:47","slug":"fist-city-the-original-coal-miners-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/fist-city-the-original-coal-miners-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"fist city. the original coal miners daughter."},"content":{"rendered":"

Being a coal miner’s daughter myself, I’m contractually obligated to bring up Loretta Lynn whenever I can swing it. But I’d like to think I’d do it anyway. Even if I weren’t. <\/p>\n

When you grow up on in a holler like I did, wanting to overcome the mountains with your art, you sometimes think there’s not a whole lot of women for you look up to. Of course, you think wrong. Of course, I was wrong. I was surrounded by them. Strong, beautiful, creative sorts. But I was a child, and didn’t see it then. Like I see it now. Then, I only saw Loretta and her bologna. Sometimes Dolly and her greasy pole. <\/p>\n

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See minute 2:00 for classic Loretta<\/center><\/p>\n

So, because she came from a holler and ate bologna sandwiches and had a father who trucked down into a hole in the ground to make a living, I thought she was like me. And I loved her for it. We all did. <\/p>\n

Loretta Lynn wrote songs for women just when they needed writing. Whether she realized it, or not. Women adored her. Even if you weren’t a woman, and even if you’re not – even if you’re Jack White – you still take a bow. Because it’s Loretta Lynn. And she’s a bloody force of nature. <\/p>\n

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Jack and Loretta<\/center><\/p>\n

My grandfather thought Loretta had lost her mind when he first saw her perform Portland Oregon. As for me, and all things Jack<\/a>, that’s a love affair for another day. <\/p>\n

2 June 2010: Interview with Loretta Lynn: American Public Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being a coal miner’s daughter myself, I’m contractually obligated to bring up Loretta Lynn whenever I can swing it. But I’d like to think I’d do it anyway. Even if I weren’t. When you grow up on in a holler like I did, wanting to overcome the mountains with your art, you sometimes think there’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[51,50,49],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","tag-appalachia","tag-bluegrass","tag-jack-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}