Lynn’s growing assertiveness coincided with the first stirrings of the modern women’s movement. But later on, I started speakin’ my mind when things weren’t right.” There wasn’t nothin’ I could do about it. I was 3,000 miles away from my mom and dad and had four little kids. “After I met Patsy, life got better for me because I fought back,” Ms. Lynn befriended Patsy Cline there, that she began to stand up to her husband. It was not until the couple moved to Nashville in the early 1960s, and Ms. He used the term “spanking” to describe the times he hit her. Lynn’s dependence on her husband made him as much a father figure as a spouse to her, even though he was less than six years her senior. Lynn went on to manage his wife’s career, insisting that she perform in honky-tonks and at radio stations even before she was convinced of her musical gifts. In “Hey Loretta,” a wry 1973 hit about walking out on rural drudgery written by the cartoonist Shel Silverstein, she sang, “You can feed the chickens and you can milk the cow/This woman’s liberation, honey, is gonna start right now.” Silverstein also wrote the beleaguered housewife’s lament “One’s on the Way,” a No. She nevertheless became a voice for ordinary women, recording three-minute morality plays in the 1960s and ’70s - many written by her, some written by others - that spoke to the changing mores of women throughout America. Lynn got her start in the music business at a time when male artists dominated the country airwaves. Her music was rooted in the verities of honky-tonk country and the Appalachian songs she had grown up singing, and her lyrics were lean and direct, with nuggets of wordplay: “She’s got everything it takes/To take everything you’ve got,” she sang in “Everything It Takes,” one of her many songs about cheating, released in 2016. Her songwriting made her a model for generations of country songwriters.

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