My family was not quite as poor as Loretta's because we at least had electricity while her family used coal oil lamps. However, we did not have running water so we had an outhouse. We had no central heat or air conditioning. We heated our house with an old pot-bellied stove. In the wintertime since that stove had to have a fire going anyway to heat the house, mom fixed big kettles of soup or beans that would simmer all afternoon on that stove and when we got home from school the house smelled WONDERFUL. We went barefoot all summer because shoes were expensive so if we didn't have to wear them, we didn't. We saved our shoes so they could be worn to church on Sunday. I had three older sisters so I wore a lot of hand-me-downs but my mother also sometimes made my dresses out of feed sacks. Bags that flour came in were made of cloth and they had pretty patterns and sometimes if mom found two sacks with the same pattern she would have enough cloth to make me a dress. If she only had ONE sack, she could make a blouse or maybe a skirt. We also had hogs but we didn't sell them. Dad would butcher one to provide meat for his family. We also raised a HUGE garden so we could have fresh vegetables all summer and canned vegetables all winter. Like Loretta, I came from a large family. I am the youngest of eight children. Loretta was raised in the mountains of Kentucky and I was raised in the mountains of Tennessee so I certainly can relate.
Yes, Loretta spoke with a regional dialect. She was from a small mountain community called Butcher Hollow (pronounced Holler, more regional dialect) near VanLear, Kentucky. She is the true Queen of country music. She has said the record execs tried to make her over, including the way she spoke. But Loretta wasn't having any part of it - she said I am what I am, period. She was a sassy, funny, hard-working country gal who wrote it like she saw it & sang it like she meant it! She stayed true to herself and people loved her for it. Some of her songs were deemed too controversial for mainstream radio but they rose to be massive hits on the charts, even without radio play. Love this beautiful lady!!
Loretta Lynn was a country legend & singer song writer who's music has spanned 6 decades. She was also friends with the great late Patsy Cline. Her younger sister Crystal Gayle also is a great singer. She grew up dirt poor & stayed humble & true to her roots. The autobiographical movie "Coal Miner's Daughter" is worth looking at. Sadly we lost Loretta Lynn in 2022.
When I was a teenager in 1978, I worked at a sports venue, in Lexington, Kentucky, that also had concerts. Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty played a concert and I do believe the entire population of Butcher Holler, Kentucky was in the audience that night. After the show, Loretta and Conway sat at a table on the stage and signed autographs and took pictures with audience members. They were there for over 2 hours. They must have been exhausted, but you would never know by the way they treated every single person as if they were the most important person in the world. A real Class Act.
Fun Fact...You reacted to The Band's Night They Drove Old Dixie Down a few days back. You marvelled at the talent of Levon Helm the drummer who sang lead on that song. In the Movie Coal Miner's Daughter, Levon played the coal miner (Loretta's daddy)...
@@IUBOSSFAN After he left The Band, he played drums for Loretta for a few years! I believe that he was already playing drums for her around the time they started making "Coal Miner's Daughter" in '79!
Loretta is my favorite!! Her singing, her songs, her songwriting!! I mean she was able to write her life in a song!! She is spectacular!!! Can't wait for you to check her song Fist City!!
Loretta's sister Crystal Gayle (the stage name Loretta suggested) also has had a big career more in a pop/R&B/crossover and also in country. Loretta and Crystal are distant cousins to Patty Loveless who sang You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive. Loretta was a close friend of the original female legend of country music, Patsy Cline, she named one of her twins after Patsy even. Loretta wrote most of her songs from her life perspective including having a husband who wasn't always faithful, so she wrote songs like Don't Come Home A Drinkin' With Lovin' on Your Mind, and songs to the other woman, You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man, and best of all Fist City. She wrote a song about women getting birth control pills called the Pill and it was banned on the radio as being too controversial at the time. Loretta, Patsy, Dolly Parton, Kitty Wells, Tammy Wynette and Dottie West were "the" group of pioneering female country singers.
There were actually several more verses in the original song but her producers had her cut it down to this version. I sure would like to hear the verses that got cut. She knew how to tell a story because she wrote about her own life experiences. There will never be another one like her. RIP Lorettie. We still love you and miss you every day.
Shoes were not totally needed in summer so it was just another way to save money. But, of course, needed in winter. Clothes were often your older siblings “hand me downs”
She wrote about her life. You ain’t woman enough, fist city are just two of her feisty songs. DJ s stopped playing her songs back in the 60s because she sang about “the pill”.
Genealogy is a hobby of mine and I discovered that me and Loretta are distant cousins. Our common ancestor was a Native American woman who somehow managed to escape the trail of tears. Shes buried in a Native American cemetery in Volga, Kentucky.
Lynn and her seven siblings grew up singing, and many of them went on to have careers in country music, including her country-pop superstar sister Crystal Gayle. “I thought everybody sang, because everybody up there in Butcher Holler did,” Lynn wrote on her website's biography.. This song is autobiographical. She was 15 when she and Doo got married, he was 21. They had 6 children. She wrote most of her songs, and they were about her life. ❤😂❤😂
This was my dad's story growing up. He was one of seven. His dad worked all day on the railroad, and plowed his fields at night by lantern light. His mom made his sister's dresses from feed sacks. Just like Loretta, they got new shoes in the fall from selling some hogs. I grew up on stories of how my dad grew up and I am blessed that my grandparents (except one grandfather who died when I was four) lived until I was an adult so that I could learn from them. Most of them had very limited education, but they had an enormous amount of practical knowledge and wisdom. The values they demonstrated (hard work, long-suffering, charity, thrift, self-reliance) are ones I still strive to live up to. All four of my grandparents were from Eastern Kentucky like Loretta Lynn.
My grandma grew up on a farm in North Dakota. She was the youngest of 12 kids. She didn't have a new dress until she was 14 when she and her and one sister hand-raised a lamb that the mother rejected. Farm animals are often unalived in the fall so you do not have to pay to feed them all winter. That's where the "extra" money came in. This lamb was so pretty from all the girly attention that a neighbor paid the most they had ever gotten for one lamb. Granny and her sister bought a brand new dress each from the Sears catalog. First time they had something other than hand-me-downs. Rough life then..
I finally got to see Loretta when she was 80, her voice was still perfect. What a trailblazer, her song “The Pill” was banned not only on country radio but top 40 too. RIP, your prolific songwriting with sustain generations! Great reaction!
Coal Miner's Daughter is one of my all-time favorite movies. It's perfect. Anytime I saw it was on tv I'd sit down and watch it wherever it was to the end. I've probably seen it more than any other movie. Recommend, obviously!
Patty Loveless is a distant cousin of Loretta's. Yeah company script was a real thing in coal mining towns and also in cotton mill towns. People bought everything from the company store. Tennessee Ernie Ford has a song titled '16 Tons' with the line "I owe my soul to company store." People that worked in the cotton mills even rented their company owned houses in the mill village (often called mill hill here in the south) and paid their rent using company script. I still have some that one of my long deceased aunts kept.
Not all mines were “coal mining towns” out in the middle of anywhere. Some were close enough to a village to where u might not have to live on their property. Many, many were coal mining towns though
Yes, my hometown as a coal mining city but also textile mills that made ALL our own things in the US before outsourcing to Asia for the cheaper after regulations and Unions, higher wages and demands for employee demands had those mills just abandoned to rot literally, jobs gone... mining replaced and that was just one city of upwards of 10,000 with nearby villages and then the next small city in Appalachia Pennsylvania. My hometown is still depressed to this day. Cheap to live.... with older stock attached housing and others in the older city not seen as desirable... vs newer homes with larger lots etc. So yes, there was early where Coal Companies built the homes for employees who still paid rent and built the store to buy goods too. Still many did grow into larger communities and small cities with other jobs vs mining and farms.... but mining and children and wife working in the textile mills.... Shoe factory, dress factory, mens shirt factory, sleepwear one... huge silk mill when silk stockings before nylon were in etc.... ALL THAT WAS GONE 60s 70s. Most who graduated off to college but for a few... did not return. No server poverty, but poorer classes and those who saved all their lives never spending it as their safety blanket so banks still flourished. Now in America even though lower wages in these areas.... companies fear Unionization and if taxed... want those who give them money or free taxes to relocate with right-to-work laws that pretty well prevent Unions without banning them. So Northern Legacy cities, US Rust Belt.... still remains less invested in vs our boomin Sunbelt cities in climates best not to build larger cities prone to disasters..... Booming with businesses back in the day did not always mean area had wealth trickle down and nothing to just close and move the mills for them.
Lots of story-telling songs 60s 70s.... Terry Jacks a hit 70s sad story song - Seasons in the Son. Of course if not done.... 60s Jeannie C Riley's Harper Valley PTA. A song as Loretta's. A story in 3-min or less. On mining... their was the song going back farther to the 50s... Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons. That is one coal mining totally. Johnny Paycheck's song - Take This Job and Shove it. Ray Stevens songs were storytelling about incidents of the times like - The Streak. When going nakie or undies running thru a broadcast ball game was a think.....
This a true story of her young life. They were dirt poor. Check out the Movie. Coal Miner's Daughter. It's her life story. She has been singing since she was 14.
You need to watch the movie. Loretta hand-picked Sissy Spacek who actually sang all of the songs in the movie. And you will learn about baloney sandwiches in that movie!
There is a very specific region of Appalachia where the words hard and tired rhyme perfectly. My family and Loretta are from that area. It’s where Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee all meet.
Gospel and Country-Folk singer "Tennessee" Ernie Ford once sang a hugely popular song called "Sixteen Tons" about working in a coal mine. One of the lyrics says, "I owe my soul to the company store". I first heard the song when I was a teenager back in the 60s and I didn't have any idea what he meant by that line. I finally found out about what you were mentioning how the mining companies would pay the workers in a type of currency that could only be spent in the stores that were owned and operated by the mining company.
Definitely need to check that one out. I reacted to Geoff Castellucci's version ,but need to hear the original. Company scrip or scrip they called it i believe.
I always say that people like Loretta and myself are the only people who know how to speak correctly. Lol! It took forever for my phone to understand my Appalachian dialect.
Loretta had 14-17 of her songs ban from Country radio stations. But most became hits. Sissy Spacek traveled with Loretta for about a year. Loretta taught Sissy how she played the guitar & sang. Sissy sounds just like Loretta. Throughout the years, whenever they got together, you could tell them apart by their voices. Sissy would start talking like Loretta. Great movie & l watch it at least twice a yr & then watch Dolly Partons movie "9 to 5." After you get to know & listen to more of Loretta. You need to do her duets with Conway Twitty. They were great together. Also another coal miner song is Jimmy Dean "Big bad John." I'm surprised l didn't see it mentioned in the comments.
Watch the story of her life by the same name. That IS a regional dialect, more of older gens it seems, but still some younger. Like Tyler Childers says "retched down" in place o "reached down", like my grandma did. Loretta wrote songs from a womans point of view, and was quite controversial, she had FIVE song banned from the radio..."The Pill" during the womens movement, others I loved were Dont Come Home a Drinkin (with lovin on your mind), Ones On The Way (about pregnant again, lol) one was 'Fist City', abt a woman coming onto her husband..."You want to go to Fist City?", LOL!!! Loretta not long ago passed, but on your own perhaps...SHE HAD A REPLICA of the house she grew up in this song is abt built on her property...just months before she died she sat in the cabin and recited the words to Coal Miners Daughter, JUST HER, NO MUSIC, AT THE END OF LIFE. In one of the big dresses she wore in concert. BEAUTIFUL. They got shoes in the winter OUT PF NESSECITY because it was cold, was no money to buy more in the summer months when the ones they got for winter had worn out. Loretta was a duet partner with Conway Twitty...watch Conway sing "Hello Darlin'" LIVE to Loretta, there later on. Hello Darlin' is the 2nd greatest song in country music (IMO) after He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones.
It was great watching your reaction to Loretta Lynn (no relation to me). However, this song is pretty much my mother's story as well. My grandparents raised ten children with grandpap working in the coal mines of Broadtop Mountain Pennsylvania and farmed as well. I recall, as a young child fetching water from the spring behind their house for grandpap's bath, four buckets were put on the kitchen wood and coal burning stove, and a fifth one to bring cold water for the tub brought up from the basement every day to the kitchen. I don't remember how many buckets of cold water we put in the tub before the last bucket was placed on the stove as well, but I do remember being exhausted when the final bucket cam in. Finally pap would come home, us kids were all ordered to stay in the far end of the living room to listen to the radio while pap bathed in the kitchen. Such fond memories for me listening to this song. Fortunately, my home life wasn't quite as primitive growing up on a farm nearby. We had indoor plumbing before I started school so I've no memory of life at home without running water. Anyway, thanks for the reaction, I just discovered you a day or two ago, and really enjoy listening to your reactions.
Thank you so much for being here and sharing a bit of your background and upbringing. I also came from humble beginnings, i believe i was 8 or 9 before i had my first shower. Only washed with cloth and a bucket of water until then.
You should definitely watch the movie of her life, same name as this song. It's SO good and the drummer from The Band played her father!!❤ I don't know why, but this song makes me tear up every time I hear it
Pete is great! Better story teller than any one in the traditional industry. I am glad that my life is situation from almost before analogue times and the future we now see on different economies. Gr trip Saeed! THX ❤C
"Daddy aways managed to get the money somewhere." That reminds me of when I got a toy banjo for Christmas when I was like three or four and it mysteriously disappeared. I looked for it for years and it became a family story about the missing banjo. Finally, when I was in my teens or twenties, my mom admitted that she had sold it for money because we were that poor.
It wasn't just coal mines. Other industries had company stores and even company towns. Cotton mills had company housing, company stores, and paid in something like scrip.
I served with a guy in the Air Force that said she supported motocross racing. He said that he had a garage full of motorcycles that she paid for, to allow him to race in South Dakota. 👍❤️
You should watch her movie Coalminers Daughter Went 2 summers ago to Hurricane Mills Tennessee, where her ranch is and toured it what a great day that was .
Speaking of coal mine company towns and script, try Sixteen Tons sung by Tennessee Earnie Ford. There's a video of Dinah Shore introducing a filmed performance (when he was younger) of his signature song at a ceremony honoring him when he was older. "Sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt..."
Hi Saeed. Loretta never forgot where she came from. This is her true story. You should check out the movie " Coalminer's Daughter" based on her life. Sissy SpaceX played Loretta in the movie. You will come away knowing so much about her. Loretta has so many songs, all written by her, about something that truly happened. Some are humorous but true. But she stayed true to her beliefs and a beautiful person. We lost an angel when we lost her. RlP, Loretta, and thank you for reacting to her. ❤ umm, wait, you think you talk a lot? I never noticed😂😂
Hi Debbie! Hope i can find that film, i really want to see it. Sissy Spacek is an amazing actress. Thanks so much for watching! (and listening to my talking :D)
You should also listen pretty soon to he sister Crystal Gayle singing, "Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue" to get a sense of how they could sound so alike and so different at the same time. Entirely different style. Much less accent. But you can see and hear that they are related. Crystal Gayle was known for having extremely long hair. It almost reached the floor.
Great story telling songs to add to the list… Jason Isbell- Live Oak Justin Townes Earle- Lone Pine Hill Jamey Johnson- High Cost Of Living Just for a start
Great country song and great singer! and yes the movie on her life Coal Miner's Daughter is a good suggestion... Great reaction, thank you Saeed for sharing this one! If I may, I would love if you can react to (both great singers in their style) Willie Nelson and Ray Charles performance of "Seven Spanish Angels"
Hope i can find that film. Want to see it 😃 Thanks so much for watching and sharing a recommendation. Willie Nelson has been on my list. Definitely want to check it out.
If you want a great song, then listen to Kathy Mattea "Where You Been". You might need a tissue with this one. It is based on a true story of her husbands grandparents. Love this song.
After listening to your comments, I think you would appreciate a couple of Alan Jackson songs. He is another country singer/songwriter. "Rember When" is a beautiful tribute to his wife & family, the official music video includes clips of them. "Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning" is a song about the 9-11 terror attacks. Being a writer yourself, I think you will find both songs thought provoking.
Since you've been on such a story song kick lately, I thought it might be a good time to drop you a suggestion. Please check out the song Carolina drama play the band The raconteurs. Great job is always my man!
The USA is full of dialects , the Appalachian Mountains, this was about Loretta Lynn' life, a great story & great song by a great country singer.
This is true Americana. Loretta Lynn is probably a Top 100 American in my opinon. She was incredible.
Great movie of her life with Sissy Spacek. Thanks for sharing.
My family was not quite as poor as Loretta's because we at least had electricity while her family used coal oil lamps. However, we did not have running water so we had an outhouse. We had no central heat or air conditioning. We heated our house with an old pot-bellied stove. In the wintertime since that stove had to have a fire going anyway to heat the house, mom fixed big kettles of soup or beans that would simmer all afternoon on that stove and when we got home from school the house smelled WONDERFUL. We went barefoot all summer because shoes were expensive so if we didn't have to wear them, we didn't. We saved our shoes so they could be worn to church on Sunday. I had three older sisters so I wore a lot of hand-me-downs but my mother also sometimes made my dresses out of feed sacks. Bags that flour came in were made of cloth and they had pretty patterns and sometimes if mom found two sacks with the same pattern she would have enough cloth to make me a dress. If she only had ONE sack, she could make a blouse or maybe a skirt. We also had hogs but we didn't sell them. Dad would butcher one to provide meat for his family. We also raised a HUGE garden so we could have fresh vegetables all summer and canned vegetables all winter. Like Loretta, I came from a large family. I am the youngest of eight children. Loretta was raised in the mountains of Kentucky and I was raised in the mountains of Tennessee so I certainly can relate.
Yes, Loretta spoke with a regional dialect. She was from a small mountain community called Butcher Hollow (pronounced Holler, more regional dialect) near VanLear, Kentucky. She is the true Queen of country music. She has said the record execs tried to make her over, including the way she spoke. But Loretta wasn't having any part of it - she said I am what I am, period. She was a sassy, funny, hard-working country gal who wrote it like she saw it & sang it like she meant it! She stayed true to herself and people loved her for it. Some of her songs were deemed too controversial for mainstream radio but they rose to be massive hits on the charts, even without radio play. Love this beautiful lady!!
Loretta Lynn was a country legend & singer song writer who's music has spanned 6 decades. She was also friends with the great late Patsy Cline. Her younger sister Crystal Gayle also is a great singer. She grew up dirt poor & stayed humble & true to her roots. The autobiographical movie "Coal Miner's Daughter" is worth looking at. Sadly we lost Loretta Lynn in 2022.
Thanks for sharing! Sad to hear she is no longer with us.
Will look up that film.
It was nominated for 13 awards, winning 11. Seven were Academy Awards including Best Picture, Sissy Spacek won for Best Actress.
@@SaeedReacts. Sissy Spacek sang all of Loretta's songs in the movie herself.
When I was a teenager in 1978, I worked at a sports venue, in Lexington, Kentucky, that also had concerts. Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty played a concert and I do believe the entire population of Butcher Holler, Kentucky was in the audience that night. After the show, Loretta and Conway sat at a table on the stage and signed autographs and took pictures with audience members. They were there for over 2 hours. They must have been exhausted, but you would never know by the way they treated every single person as if they were the most important person in the world. A real Class Act.
Fun Fact...You reacted to The Band's Night They Drove Old Dixie Down a few days back. You marvelled at the talent of Levon Helm the drummer who sang lead on that song. In the Movie Coal Miner's Daughter, Levon played the coal miner (Loretta's daddy)...
Oh wow! I need to see that movie!
@@IUBOSSFAN After he left The Band, he played drums for Loretta for a few years! I believe that he was already playing drums for her around the time they started making "Coal Miner's Daughter" in '79!
The story she's singing is the true story of her life when she was young.
Loretta is my favorite!! Her singing, her songs, her songwriting!! I mean she was able to write her life in a song!! She is spectacular!!!
Can't wait for you to check her song Fist City!!
Will add that song to my list. Thanks for the recommendation!
Oh yes! Fist city!
Loretta's sister Crystal Gayle (the stage name Loretta suggested) also has had a big career more in a pop/R&B/crossover and also in country. Loretta and Crystal are distant cousins to Patty Loveless who sang You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive. Loretta was a close friend of the original female legend of country music, Patsy Cline, she named one of her twins after Patsy even. Loretta wrote most of her songs from her life perspective including having a husband who wasn't always faithful, so she wrote songs like Don't Come Home A Drinkin' With Lovin' on Your Mind, and songs to the other woman, You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man, and best of all Fist City. She wrote a song about women getting birth control pills called the Pill and it was banned on the radio as being too controversial at the time. Loretta, Patsy, Dolly Parton, Kitty Wells, Tammy Wynette and Dottie West were "the" group of pioneering female country singers.
There were actually several more verses in the original song but her producers had her cut it down to this version. I sure would like to hear the verses that got cut. She knew how to tell a story because she wrote about her own life experiences. There will never be another one like her. RIP Lorettie. We still love you and miss you every day.
Shoes were not totally needed in summer so it was just another way to save money. But, of course, needed in winter. Clothes were often your older siblings “hand me downs”
Thanks for shedding some light on that.
I think the money and company store are also in Tennessee Earnie Ford's song '16 Tons'.
I think i did the Geoff Castellucci version, but have to check out the original.
It's her real life story in a song. The movie is great.
Loretta is my wife's grandfather's niece. I've been to family reunions and met her. I've been down a Kentucky coal mine. Never again.
She wrote about her life. You ain’t woman enough, fist city are just two of her feisty songs. DJ s stopped playing her songs back in the 60s because she sang about “the pill”.
Genealogy is a hobby of mine and I discovered that me and Loretta are distant cousins. Our common ancestor was a Native American woman who somehow managed to escape the trail of tears. Shes buried in a Native American cemetery in Volga, Kentucky.
Loved Loretta. You Ain't Woman Enough and Fist City are 2 more you should check out by her. The movie Coal Miner's Daughter is great. R.I.P
Brevity is the soul of wit, and classic hit songs!
Loretta Lynn is a legend
Lynn and her seven siblings grew up singing, and many of them went on to have careers in country music, including her country-pop superstar sister Crystal Gayle. “I thought everybody sang, because everybody up there in Butcher Holler did,” Lynn wrote on her website's biography.. This song is autobiographical. She was 15 when she and Doo got married, he was 21. They had 6 children. She wrote most of her songs, and they were about her life. ❤😂❤😂
Thanks for sharing a bit of info. Definitely want to explore more of her music.
Patty Loveless of course a big fan of Loretta’s. After they got to know each other, Loretta said she believed they were very distant cousins
Yes, regional dialect
Warshboard. 😁Love Loretta!
This was my dad's story growing up. He was one of seven. His dad worked all day on the railroad, and plowed his fields at night by lantern light. His mom made his sister's dresses from feed sacks. Just like Loretta, they got new shoes in the fall from selling some hogs. I grew up on stories of how my dad grew up and I am blessed that my grandparents (except one grandfather who died when I was four) lived until I was an adult so that I could learn from them. Most of them had very limited education, but they had an enormous amount of practical knowledge and wisdom. The values they demonstrated (hard work, long-suffering, charity, thrift, self-reliance) are ones I still strive to live up to. All four of my grandparents were from Eastern Kentucky like Loretta Lynn.
My grandma grew up on a farm in North Dakota. She was the youngest of 12 kids. She didn't have a new dress until she was 14 when she and her and one sister hand-raised a lamb that the mother rejected. Farm animals are often unalived in the fall so you do not have to pay to feed them all winter. That's where the "extra" money came in. This lamb was so pretty from all the girly attention that a neighbor paid the most they had ever gotten for one lamb. Granny and her sister bought a brand new dress each from the Sears catalog. First time they had something other than hand-me-downs. Rough life then..
an amazing true story from an even more amazing woman. Loretta Lnn was the real deal.
I finally got to see Loretta when she was 80, her voice was still perfect. What a trailblazer, her song “The Pill” was banned not only on country radio but top 40 too. RIP, your prolific songwriting with sustain generations!
Great reaction!
Thats amazing!
Thanks for watching!
Coal Miner's Daughter is one of my all-time favorite movies. It's perfect. Anytime I saw it was on tv I'd sit down and watch it wherever it was to the end. I've probably seen it more than any other movie. Recommend, obviously!
Patty Loveless is a distant cousin of Loretta's. Yeah company script was a real thing in coal mining towns and also in cotton mill towns. People bought everything from the company store. Tennessee Ernie Ford has a song titled '16 Tons' with the line "I owe my soul to company store." People that worked in the cotton mills even rented their company owned houses in the mill village (often called mill hill here in the south) and paid their rent using company script. I still have some that one of my long deceased aunts kept.
Oh she is?
Thanks for taking the time to share some info!
Seems those companies had it all figured out.
Not all mines were “coal mining towns” out in the middle of anywhere. Some were close enough to a village to where u might not have to live on their property. Many, many were coal mining towns though
Yes, my hometown as a coal mining city but also textile mills that made ALL our own things in the US before outsourcing to Asia for the cheaper after regulations and Unions, higher wages and demands for employee demands had those mills just abandoned to rot literally, jobs gone... mining replaced and that was just one city of upwards of 10,000 with nearby villages and then the next small city in Appalachia Pennsylvania. My hometown is still depressed to this day. Cheap to live.... with older stock attached housing and others in the older city not seen as desirable... vs newer homes with larger lots etc.
So yes, there was early where Coal Companies built the homes for employees who still paid rent and built the store to buy goods too. Still many did grow into larger communities and small cities with other jobs vs mining and farms.... but mining and children and wife working in the textile mills.... Shoe factory, dress factory, mens shirt factory, sleepwear one... huge silk mill when silk stockings before nylon were in etc.... ALL THAT WAS GONE 60s 70s. Most who graduated off to college but for a few... did not return. No server poverty, but poorer classes and those who saved all their lives never spending it as their safety blanket so banks still flourished.
Now in America even though lower wages in these areas.... companies fear Unionization and if taxed... want those who give them money or free taxes to relocate with right-to-work laws that pretty well prevent Unions without banning them. So Northern Legacy cities, US Rust Belt.... still remains less invested in vs our boomin Sunbelt cities in climates best not to build larger cities prone to disasters..... Booming with businesses back in the day did not always mean area had wealth trickle down and nothing to just close and move the mills for them.
Fist City, You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man, The Pill, One's On the Way.
Thanks for the recommendations.
An Academy winning movie was made about her life.
"Coal Miners Daughter" Definitely worth watching.
I hear many great things about this film. Definitely want to watch it.
Red Sovine "Teddy Bear". Little boy talks truckers on a C.B. radio.😌
That one is on my todo list
Lots of story-telling songs 60s 70s.... Terry Jacks a hit 70s sad story song - Seasons in the Son. Of course if not done.... 60s Jeannie C Riley's Harper Valley PTA. A song as Loretta's. A story in 3-min or less. On mining... their was the song going back farther to the 50s... Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons. That is one coal mining totally. Johnny Paycheck's song - Take This Job and Shove it. Ray Stevens songs were storytelling about incidents of the times like - The Streak. When going nakie or undies running thru a broadcast ball game was a think.....
This a true story of her young life. They were dirt poor. Check out the Movie. Coal Miner's Daughter. It's her life story. She has been singing since she was 14.
You need to watch the movie. Loretta hand-picked Sissy Spacek who actually sang all of the songs in the movie. And you will learn about baloney sandwiches in that movie!
Will see if i can find that movie!
There is a very specific region of Appalachia where the words hard and tired rhyme perfectly. My family and Loretta are from that area. It’s where Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee all meet.
That is her true life story. She was little back in the 30's and 40s
They made a movie called COAL MINERS DAUGHTER.
Gospel and Country-Folk singer "Tennessee" Ernie Ford once sang a hugely popular song called "Sixteen Tons" about working in a coal mine. One of the lyrics says, "I owe my soul to the company store". I first heard the song when I was a teenager back in the 60s and I didn't have any idea what he meant by that line. I finally found out about what you were mentioning how the mining companies would pay the workers in a type of currency that could only be spent in the stores that were owned and operated by the mining company.
Definitely need to check that one out. I reacted to Geoff Castellucci's version ,but need to hear the original.
Company scrip or scrip they called it i believe.
I always say that people like Loretta and myself are the only people who know how to speak correctly. Lol! It took forever for my phone to understand my Appalachian dialect.
Loretta had 14-17 of her songs ban from Country radio stations. But most became hits. Sissy Spacek traveled with Loretta for about a year. Loretta taught Sissy how she played the guitar & sang. Sissy sounds just like Loretta. Throughout the years, whenever they got together, you could tell them apart by their voices. Sissy would start talking like Loretta.
Great movie & l watch it at least twice a yr & then watch Dolly Partons movie "9 to 5."
After you get to know & listen to more of Loretta. You need to do her duets with Conway Twitty. They were great together.
Also another coal miner song is Jimmy Dean "Big bad John." I'm surprised l didn't see it mentioned in the comments.
Definitely want to watch that film. 9 to 5 i have seen.
Thanks for the recommendations!
Watch the story of her life by the same name. That IS a regional dialect, more of older gens it seems, but still some younger. Like Tyler Childers says "retched down" in place o "reached down", like my grandma did. Loretta wrote songs from a womans point of view, and was quite controversial, she had FIVE song banned from the radio..."The Pill" during the womens movement, others I loved were Dont Come Home a Drinkin (with lovin on your mind), Ones On The Way (about pregnant again, lol) one was 'Fist City', abt a woman coming onto her husband..."You want to go to Fist City?", LOL!!! Loretta not long ago passed, but on your own perhaps...SHE HAD A REPLICA of the house she grew up in this song is abt built on her property...just months before she died she sat in the cabin and recited the words to Coal Miners Daughter, JUST HER, NO MUSIC, AT THE END OF LIFE. In one of the big dresses she wore in concert. BEAUTIFUL. They got shoes in the winter OUT PF NESSECITY because it was cold, was no money to buy more in the summer months when the ones they got for winter had worn out. Loretta was a duet partner with Conway Twitty...watch Conway sing "Hello Darlin'" LIVE to Loretta, there later on. Hello Darlin' is the 2nd greatest song in country music (IMO) after He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones.
Tennessee Ernie Ford's 16 Tons is a great story telling song.
Loretta has so many great songs about her life.
Will add that song to my list. Thanks.
It was great watching your reaction to Loretta Lynn (no relation to me). However, this song is pretty much my mother's story as well. My grandparents raised ten children with grandpap working in the coal mines of Broadtop Mountain Pennsylvania and farmed as well. I recall, as a young child fetching water from the spring behind their house for grandpap's bath, four buckets were put on the kitchen wood and coal burning stove, and a fifth one to bring cold water for the tub brought up from the basement every day to the kitchen. I don't remember how many buckets of cold water we put in the tub before the last bucket was placed on the stove as well, but I do remember being exhausted when the final bucket cam in. Finally pap would come home, us kids were all ordered to stay in the far end of the living room to listen to the radio while pap bathed in the kitchen. Such fond memories for me listening to this song. Fortunately, my home life wasn't quite as primitive growing up on a farm nearby. We had indoor plumbing before I started school so I've no memory of life at home without running water. Anyway, thanks for the reaction, I just discovered you a day or two ago, and really enjoy listening to your reactions.
Thank you so much for being here and sharing a bit of your background and upbringing.
I also came from humble beginnings, i believe i was 8 or 9 before i had my first shower. Only washed with cloth and a bucket of water until then.
I love country music because of the story telling. One of my favorite novels is Grapes of Wrath.
I one time I heard she wrote 17 verses for this song
There is a movie Coal Miner’s Daughter, the story of Loretta Lynn. Great movie
Will look that one up
You should definitely watch the movie of her life, same name as this song. It's SO good and the drummer from The Band played her father!!❤ I don't know why, but this song makes me tear up every time I hear it
I definitely want to watch that movie.
Pete is great! Better story teller than any one in the traditional industry. I am glad that my life is situation from almost before analogue times and the future we now see on different economies. Gr trip Saeed! THX ❤C
Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons" tells about life from the coal miner's perspective.
"Daddy aways managed to get the money somewhere." That reminds me of when I got a toy banjo for Christmas when I was like three or four and it mysteriously disappeared. I looked for it for years and it became a family story about the missing banjo. Finally, when I was in my teens or twenties, my mom admitted that she had sold it for money because we were that poor.
Must have been hard for your mom to do that. Hard times.
'Fist City' by Loretta Lynn is another good one. Also "Fancy' by Reba Mcentire, or 'The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia'.
Will add Fist City to my list. I did react to the other two songs.
Love this throwback. Another "word movie". TX Saeed. Greetings from South Africa
Love these type of songs! Thanks for watching. Greetings from Belgium
It wasn't just coal mines. Other industries had company stores and even company towns. Cotton mills had company housing, company stores, and paid in something like scrip.
Maybe i should watch the film first.
Talking about a "poor man's dollar" reminds me of Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford. That's a good song too.
I believe she is a cousin to Patty Lovelace who sang the Harlan song
I served with a guy in the Air Force that said she supported motocross racing. He said that he had a garage full of motorcycles that she paid for, to allow him to race in South Dakota. 👍❤️
Her life story in the film Coal Miners Daughter is a must watch movie
Ive been seeing that one a lot. Hope i can find it.
@@SaeedReacts. The UA-cam site is Twisted Translations 👌🏻👌🏻
You should watch her movie
Coalminers Daughter
Went 2 summers ago to Hurricane Mills Tennessee, where her ranch is and toured it what a great day that was .
You should do a reaction to the Loretta Lynn bio pick named after this song Coal miner's daughter.✌️❤️
Now you need to watch the movie.
Speaking of coal mine company towns and script, try Sixteen Tons sung by Tennessee Earnie Ford. There's a video of Dinah Shore introducing a filmed performance (when he was younger) of his signature song at a ceremony honoring him when he was older. "Sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt..."
She has so many good songs a good one that is also pretty funny is One's on the way
There another song that mentions script instead of money called 15 tons.
I love your journey through the story songs. 😊
Please react to Tennessee Ernie Ford "Sixteen tons".
Thanks for watching and the recommendation!
Hi Saeed. Loretta never forgot where she came from. This is her true story. You should check out the movie " Coalminer's Daughter" based on her life. Sissy SpaceX played Loretta in the movie. You will come away knowing so much about her. Loretta has so many songs, all written by her, about something that truly happened. Some are humorous but true. But she stayed true to her beliefs and a beautiful person. We lost an angel when we lost her. RlP, Loretta, and thank you for reacting to her. ❤ umm, wait, you think you talk a lot? I never noticed😂😂
Hi Debbie!
Hope i can find that film, i really want to see it. Sissy Spacek is an amazing actress.
Thanks so much for watching! (and listening to my talking :D)
The only reason I played basketball was to get a new pair of Converse tennis shoes to wear in the summer.
You should also listen pretty soon to he sister Crystal Gayle singing, "Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue" to get a sense of how they could sound so alike and so different at the same time. Entirely different style. Much less accent. But you can see and hear that they are related. Crystal Gayle was known for having extremely long hair. It almost reached the floor.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Great story telling songs to add to the list…
Jason Isbell- Live Oak
Justin Townes Earle- Lone Pine Hill
Jamey Johnson- High Cost Of Living
Just for a start
Thanks so much for these recommendations!
Go watch the movie coal Miner's daughter. It tells about her life. It's a beautiful movie
You should play jer singing fist city
You should check out Loretta's younger sister, Crystal Gayle. She had some great songs as well.
I will add her name to my list. Thanks!
Great country song and great singer! and yes the movie on her life Coal Miner's Daughter is a good suggestion...
Great reaction, thank you Saeed for sharing this one!
If I may, I would love if you can react to (both great singers in their style) Willie Nelson and Ray Charles performance of "Seven Spanish Angels"
Hope i can find that film. Want to see it 😃
Thanks so much for watching and sharing a recommendation. Willie Nelson has been on my list. Definitely want to check it out.
About the scrip thing -- try listening to Tennessee Ernie Williams' song "16 Tons". It's mentioned in there. I think you'll like it. 🙂
I reacted to the Geoff Castellucci version, but definitely need to listen to the original.
You should watch the movie- Coal Miner's Daughter .Also check out Marty Robbins, He is an excellent story teller
I recommend "Ode to Billie Joe" by Bobbie Gentry
I reacted to it. Amazing song!
If you want a great song, then listen to Kathy Mattea "Where You Been". You might need a tissue with this one. It is based on a true story of her husbands grandparents. Love this song.
Thanks for the recommendation.
You should watch and review the movie of the same title. It's about her life. It's quite good.
Listen to the song she wrote
Fist City
Thanks for the recommendation!
You should do a reaction to Tennessee Ernie Ford's version of Sixteen tons. Written by Merle Travis.✌️❤️
Thanks for the recommendation!
After listening to your comments, I think you would appreciate a couple of Alan Jackson songs. He is another country singer/songwriter. "Rember When" is a beautiful tribute to his wife & family, the official music video includes clips of them. "Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning" is a song about the 9-11 terror attacks. Being a writer yourself, I think you will find both songs thought provoking.
I will add these songs to my list. Thank you!
(might be one of them is already on it)
Since you've been on such a story song kick lately, I thought it might be a good time to drop you a suggestion. Please check out the song Carolina drama play the band The raconteurs. Great job is always my man!
Thanks for the recommendation! And for watching ofcourse. Have a great day!
Check out her Granddaughter, EMMY RUSSELL who made it to the Top 5 in AGT 2024. She sings this song by herself and with Wynonna Judd
Thanks for the recommendation!
Please, please listen to FIST CITY and also RUBY'S STOOL
Thanks for the recommendation.
They were too poor to get 2 pairs of shoes per year, so they did not put shoes on in the summer since it was warm.
Thanks for telling me about that!
Great reaction!
Try Old Red by Blake Shelton.
Thanks! Will add that one to my list.
Believe by Brooks & Dunn is great country song to react too....video version.
That reaction is recorded and should come to the channel soon.
Believe it or not Loretta Lynn is a distant cousin of mine.
Oh wow! That's awesome!
Hi Saeed, as you are open from music from Germany, try Back Home from Bukahara. I Like your Channel. Greetings from Evelin
Thanks so much for the recommendation!