Why Nashville SECRETLY Hated Loretta Lynn So Much

Why Nashville SECRETLY Hated Loretta Lynn So Much There is a photograph in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Loretta Lynn is smiling inside a glass frame, the first woman in history to win Entertainer of the Year from the CMA in 1972. Nashville read that as an honor. The woman in that frame had been banned by 60 country radio stations from playing her songs, had signed away the publishing rights to 114 songs to two men without her own lawyer, and had fought for 30 years to get back what she wrote herself and never won while they were still alive. Fourteen songs in all were banned from the airwaves. In the 1960s and 1970s, no artist in Nashville was silenced more than she was. There was a publishing system, a contract signed in 1961 when she had just set foot in Nashville, and a coal miner’s girl from Kentucky who did not know that the same lawyer represented both sides. She had to wait until both of those men were dead before she could sue. Everything started in Butcher Hollow. But before Butcher Hollow, stop at the banned songs, because those songs tell you what kind of industry this was. The first song banned was “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” in 1967, and its content was simple to the point of being almost blunt, a wife telling her husband not to come home drunk and then want to go to bed. #documentary #darkhistory