SAN DIEGO — There aren’t any country-music stars today like Loretta Lynn, the legendary singer-songwriter who died Tuesday in her sleep at the age of 90 at her Tennessee home in Hurricane Mills.
But there weren’t any country-music stars like Lynn when she rose to fame in the 1960s, propelled by such classic songs as “You Ain’t Woman Enough (to Take My Man)” and “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind).”
“I’ve had eight of my songs banned, and all eight went to No. 1!” she said in a 1987 interview with the San Diego Union. “As soon as I heard one of my songs got banned, I knew it would go to the top of the charts!
