This month, Lynn, who turns 88 on April 14, releases another memoir, Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust, about her formative friendship with fellow country pioneer Patsy Cline. Club called the “single greatest song title of all time.” It’s no coincidence that Lynn did most of these things while working full-time, keeping house, and raising six kids. By the time she released her best-selling memoir, Coal Miner’s Daughter, in 1976, the Kentucky-born singer had released 29 albums, charted several hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and penned a dozen-odd songs whose titles are still quoted from barstools everywhere: “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man),” “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” and the homewrecker warning “Fist City” (“I’m here to tell you gal to lay off my man, if you don’t want to go to Fist City”), which The A.V. Loretta Lynn was leaning in, pushing back, and doubling down decades before folks who use such phrases were in short pants.
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