Happy Loretta Lynn and Willie Nelson Friday

AHHH. Willie and Loretta must never be allowed to die. See to it.


26 Comments

    1. popelizbet +16

      When Dolly leaves us, I am going to shut down completely and possibly become an anchoress. Fair warning.

    2. Siana720 +1

      That was great, but is this singing-to-an-empty-concert-hall thing a trope now? Did I miss that?

  1. OnceAHeroine +9

    How wonderful. I watched “American Masters” about Lynn last week and enjoyed learning about her very much.

  2. jackan7 +13

    The Toast continues to show it has impeccable taste in all things.
    I am getting somewhat mixed messages however, as Loretta Lynn is a Donald Trump supporter, and in some corners of the interwebs this is seen as a reason for divorce.

    1. mjr +2

      Perhaps Loretta supports Trump because she remembers when Hillary Clinton spoke contemptuously about the wonderful Tammy Wynette.

  3. FunnyHunny +24

    My grandmother has started following Willie Nelson around like he is the Grateful Dead. I am totally in support of this, but she has also started to kinda look like him too, which is really strange.

      1. FunnyHunny +7

        She also elbowed someone out of the way at a concert to grab the bandanna he threw into the crowd. She really is living it.

  4. Wiz Allred +9

    In 1966, in a school gymnasium in Savoy, Texas, a beautiful young woman by the name of Loretta Lynn was giving a concert sponsored by WBAP Country Radio, Dallas/Ft Worth. She was a simple thing, in a simple space that didn’t even sport a backdrop. Just before the concert began, she walked down from the stage bent down, and said, “You are about the cutest little boy I have ever laid my eyes on…”, and kissed my 6 year old cheek. I’ve been a fan from that minute forward, and later in my life wound up dear friends with her colleague the now-deceased Lynn Anderson. This song made me touch that same cheek, and welled tears in my eyes. The queens of country, cut from a totally different cloth than most of us…