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Classic CMA Awards Moments, #22: Loretta Lynn, Entertainer of the Year win (1972)

October 13, 2008 Guest Contributor 0

#22: Loretta Lynn Entertainer of the Year win 1972 With husband Doolittle absent (he feared for a disappointing evening), Loretta Lynn made history by becoming the first female to capture the award for Entertainer of

Crystal Shawanda, Dawn of a New Day

August 19, 2008 Guest Contributor 8

Crystal Shawanda Dawn of a New Day Crystal Shawanda, a 27-year-old singer-songwriter from Ontario, Canada has established herself as a promising new voice with her first album Dawn of a New Day, a step in

Loretta Lynn, “Coal Miner’s Daughter”

August 12, 2008 Guest Contributor 5

Coal Miner’s Daughter Loretta Lynn 1970 Written by Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn’s 1970 classic “Coal Miner’s Daughter” is honest-to-goodness country. With the famous first line, “Well, I was born a coal miner’s daughter”, Lynn introduced

100 Greatest Women, #2: Loretta Lynn

June 29, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 21

100 Greatest Women #2 Loretta Lynn She came from the humblest of beginnings, the daughter of a Kentucky coal miner who married when she was only thirteen years old. Before she turned eighteen, she was

100 Greatest Women, #23: Crystal Gayle

June 7, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 8

Essential Viewing: Women of Country Special

August 15, 2007 Kevin John Coyne 11

CBS has a tendency to pull clips from this show down as soon as they’re up, so I highly recommend watching it now: the 1993 Women of Country documentary. It traces the history of women

The Best Country Albums of 2004

December 30, 2004 Kevin John Coyne 2

Our first year-end album lists are topped by Tim McGraw, Emmylou Harris, and Green Day.

The Best Country Singles of 2004

December 26, 2004 Kevin John Coyne 1

2004 produced some of the best country singles in years; many of them were actually hits.