Throughout her six-decade-long career, Loretta Lynn wrote songs about being unhappily married, describing the experience of having to put up with an unfaithful husband in great detail. Some of her most popular songs, like “Fist City” or “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)” are directly addressed to her husband’s mistresses. Pushing the boundaries of country music, they double as warnings, calling on these women to back off.
So, who was Loretta’s husband? Did she remarry after his death — and why is she back in the news recently?
Loretta’s first husband, Oliver, had a significant impact on her work as a musician.
Born into a disadvantaged family living in Butcher Hollow, Ky., Loretta got married to talent manager Oliver Vanetta Lynn, Jr. (aka Doolittle Lynn), at an extraordinarily early age. They tied the knot on Jan. 10, 1948, when Loretta was still a teenager. They stayed together until Oliver’s death in 1996.
In a previous interview with CBS News — published on May 10, 2002, just a few weeks before her biography, Still Woman Enough: A Memoir, came out — Loretta revealed that most of her songs were either directly or indirectly influenced by Oliver’s presence in her life.
“But I’ve never written a song that my husband wasn’t in. Every song I wrote, but he didn’t know which line he was in,” Loretta told CBS News.
Her husband’s behavior became the topic of songs like “Wine, Women, and Song” and “Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone).”
“I’m A Honky Tonk Girl” and “I Wanna Be Free” revolve around breakups. Songs like “When the Tingle Becomes a Chill” and “After the Fire Is Gone” allude to the slow and painstaking process of growing apart.
Although theirs was a tumultuous marriage, Oliver’s death in 1996 came as an enormous shock to Loretta just the same.
“I miss everything about him. There was no decision I ever made without talking it over with him. It’s hard because who do you go to now?” Loretta told CBS News.
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