Loretta Lynn. Courtesy
Country icon Loretta Lynn will celebrate 50 years in the Grand Ole Opry with a Sept. 25 concert featuring Oklahoma transplant Miranda Lambert, as well as her band the Pistol Annies.
Also participating will be Lynn’s sister Crystal Gayle, Lee Ann Womack and Trace Adkins.
Lambert idolizes Lynn, she admitted during an April interview with the Tulsa World.
“I would love a career like Loretta Lynn’s and Dolly Parton’s, where I am still making music I love well into my later years,” she said.
“They are such an inspiration to me. I was honored to sing ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ with Loretta Lynn a few years ago, and I learned so much from spending a day at her home taping the music video for it. She has always been brave enough to sing things that most women felt at the time but wouldn’t say, and she has done a good job of balancing her music and her family. Music and performing are my life, and I am looking forward to exploring different avenues in the future to expand my horizons.”
Lynn joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1962. She’s also earned three Grammy Awards, eight Country Music Association Awards, was the first woman to win the CMA Entertainer of the Year, she’s been inducted into the Country Music and Songwriters Halls of Fame and, in 2010, was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Lambert, Cheryl Crow and Lynn teamed up in 2010 to record a new version of the latter’s 1970 hit, “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” The tune was added to the National Recording Registry that same year.
For more information, visit tulsaworld.com/opry.
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PLUS! Both Lambert and Gayle (Lynn’s little sister) hold high regard for the country music icon.
Read an Aug. 23 Tulsa World interview with Gayle at tulsaworld.com/gayle.
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PLUS! Read the Tulsa World’s April interviews with Lambert at
tulsaworld.com/lambert1 and
tulsaworld.com/lambert2.
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