They Told Loretta Lynn 'Coal Miner's Daughter' Was Too Personal for Radio. She Recorded It Anyway.

Nashville, 1970. Loretta Lynn wanted to record a song about where she came from — about a coal miner's daughter from Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, about a childhood with no electricity and no running water and a father who worked the mines. The people around her had reasons why it might not work on radio. Loretta had a reason why it had to. In this video, we look at the decision Loretta Lynn made to record a song that the industry wasn't sure about — and what happened when she did. This is a story about knowing something true and refusing to let the industry's uncertainty about it become your own. A story about what Loretta Lynn understood about her audience that the people giving advice didn't yet. Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner's Daughter, country music history, classic country, Nashville music, Loretta Lynn biography, country music legends, Owen Bradley, Decca Records, country music untold stories