April 25, 2025 • 13 mins
I treasure these old interviews that I've been finding. Here's one from the legendary Loretta Lynn from 2020.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Bob Pickett Radio. I was going back through
some old hard drives here today I found an interview
I did with the legendary Loretta Lynn back in twenty twenty,
the COVID year when everybody was staying inside. Loretta had
just released a book about her time with Patsy Clyde,
and I was able to get on the phone and
talk to her. She was eighty eight at the time,
(00:20):
and again, this is twenty twenty, just a couple of
years before she passed away. So let's listen to this
entire interview and go back in time with the legendary
Country Music Hall of Famer. Man, what a great lady,
Loretta Lynt. Oh, Bob, Miss Loretta Lynn, how are you doing.
I'm Bob Pickett.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm doing real good, Bob.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You did? Okay, you're hunker down now right at your house.
She's not going outside.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I just got out of the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's a noise I heard in the background.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, I wanted to give you the port if I
know you're gonna talk like that, I feel like I
know you know't Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
For sure, for sure. Well I feel like I've known
you because I've met your sister. I I met the twins,
and I've met your granddaughter, but this is the first
time I've ever had an opportunity to say hello to you,
so it's quite an honor. Miss Lynn.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, honey, it's good to talk to you. You met Taylor.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I met, yeah, back when she was with the group
Stealing Angels a few years back. And sweet, sweet as
can be.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
She is. She's my girl. Yeah, I've revered to death
and she tries so hard, you know, and bless her heart,
she needs to stop working for a little long, listen
to her grandmother, and maybe she can take off again.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I think we all need to listen to you. That's
what I think. That's what I think.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, I don't know about that. She does need to listen.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh my goodness. Hey, can I wish you happy birthday?
I really you know you and I have something in common.
Your birthdays next week? Right, Yes, my birthday Saturday?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh great? Well, if we were together with to celebrate
your birthday, Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
We'd go to Chuck e Cheese. We'd have a good
old time. But I hope you have a great birthday. Okay,
let's let's get to business right now. This book is
just fascinating me and Patsy kicking up dust, and the
big question I've got.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Just preading for that book, you know, I'm just thinking
about how many Patty carried on, you know, and God
only knows what we'd be doing today if we was
up there kicking up dust.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
What took you so long to tell the story when
we saw part of it in the movie and your
book Coal Miner's Daughter. But it took a while to
get this stuff to print, didn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, Patsy, my little daughter. She kept from mommy, and
Heed dropped this. Mommy and Heed dropped this.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, I'm glad that she convinced you.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, she's correct, she's uh my baby.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now, the first time you met Patsy was kind of unusual. Uh.
We want people to buy the book and read it,
but I want to hear it from from your lips.
You met Patsy in her hospital room.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
In the hospital room, Miss wonder La was warded up
to the ceiling and the other one her one of
her arms was and her head was all bandaged. Half
of her face was bandage dep And of course I
didn't get the seer for two or three days, you know,
after I met her because she's all bandaged, dets bad.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But that was a start of a great, great friendship
right there.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
It was. And uh, I said, no, tell them what
we would be doing today, but we would be together
no matter what, now, can.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I We've known about the U, about the visions you
have of ghosts, but you still see Patsy Clyining regularly,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I do. Every time I get into a situation where
I think I'm not going to be able to do
whatever I'm gonna do, She's she's around.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
When's the last time he saw her?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The last time? But the first time went to Vegas?
Uh huh? And I was scared to desk cause old mile,
when am I gonna do Patty that year? And I
look up and she's sitting up, you know, uh just
kind of she's spotting down, you know, just sitting on
her spot down. And she had a white blouse on
(04:06):
and read the jeans and her little boots and uh,
she was just looking down small on at me, And
I said, she's here. So I just didn't show them
going on with it.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh, it's nice to have her as your guardian angel,
so to speak, isn't it really is?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, she's with me now.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Of course, I live in Austin, Texas, and you know
who the big the big cat around here is mister
Willie Nelson, right.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh, I love Willie.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I do too that you were there the first time
that that Patsy tried to record Willie's song Crazy, And
rumor has it she wasn't too crazy about recording that
song at all, was she.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, she wasn't sure about it. She didn't know whether
she wanted to go out far out, you know. She
was trying to uh, Patty wanted to sing his country
as she could be, and I kept telling her, Patsy,
do what you do best, honey. We told each other
(05:05):
things that we thought we needed to say, you know,
and she did. She did it her best. And the
song that I really loved when she got through with
her album was She's Got You. And I've cut that
thing twice.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I can't sing it have as better as her, so
I might as well forget it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
There's a great quote in the book that you wrote,
and it's what really stuck with me after reading the book.
We made each other better.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
We did. We made each other better, oh man.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And you also reveal some some personal stuff in the book.
I mean, miss Lynn, I had to close one eye
reading it. I could not believe what I was reading
right there in the book.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, my husband says, Lord, you wrote some stuff, but
I don't. My God been telling us this to me.
I said, well, it wasn't you, was it?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
But no, what a beautiful book. It's great. You know
there's somebody else say, we know a couple of people
in common. I've been trying to get at Billy Park
to write his story about Conway twenty You know Bill Park,
don't you, Conway's bus driver.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh yeah, Billy.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I keep telling him he needs to put that in
print for people to to just share the experience of
traveling along with Conway and you.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So maybe maybe you can talk him into time.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, if you do tell him to put that in print,
we've been I've been trying to get him to that
for years and years.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Oh he should, he really should.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, he certainly.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Conway was one of a kind, and he was one
of the best people I've ever known.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now, speaking of driving, you got your first driving lesson
from Patsy Kline, and man, that was an eye opener
right there. You revealed that in the book.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, I took her for a ride. He thought she
wasn't going to make it home. She really, he said,
I think you better just pull it over.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
When I get through driving, you still.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
There was very vivid. The last time you actually saw
Patsy in person, you went back from a hug. You
just have a feeling that that was gonna be the
last time that you'd see her alive.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I never dreamed. But we went back to the house
and we were sitting on the couch and just talking
about things that we wanted to do or was going
to do, you know, and things that had been done
and wasn't done right. And we got the laughing back,
got the rastling was right down in the floor of raftling. Yeah,
(07:33):
I mean we were we were girlfriends. Yeah, we were
just two little girls.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
My goodness, we went.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Right back to being eight years old. You know, That's
how we were.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Do you ever wish you could train the clock back?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We go back to those days friendship. For nothing else
in the world, not one day of her friendship would
I would I let go?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, I am so glad that you decided to share
the story with us, And it's it's it certainly is
a very fascinating book. And I know you've got the
only problem I have with the book is it's way
too short. You've got some more stories that you need
to share with us.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, we can wrote ten of them, couldn't we.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Certainly it could have been a volume one.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Again.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Well, I hope you will.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I hope you will be surprised how much help she is.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Oh? Man, Well, uh, tell me about being hunkered down
with us. You're you're staying in your house now, You're
not going any place, right, That's right? You know here
in Texas they have released rattlesnakes. Just keep all the
people inside.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
They could do that in Tennessee, too, couldn't they?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You are kidding me, kidding?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I am man. I'm the first lie I've ever told you?
Was that lie right there?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I bet?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
But you you can feel free to share that lie
anytime you want to.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
How's that? That's a good one. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well. I really really enjoyed the book so much, read
it twice, and it's such an honor to talk to you.
And I hope when this craziness gets over, you finally
make your way down here to Austin, Texas where we can.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You know that Texas is my state. It is now
you know that I would never leave Texas.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Really well, we just got to get you down here.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I love Texas and that's that's you know, when things
was really bad, Huh, Texas fed me, me and my family.
I had four little kids and two on the way
at the time. And I'm telling you, I owe everything
(09:37):
to Texas for making sure that my family eat that
year that I first come back from Washington.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Wow, wow, I see that's the story. That's another book
right there, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
They sent me, Yes, they sent me from one little
tavern to the next one. You know, I wasn't making
but twenty five to fifty dollars a night, you know,
but I'd be on. I'd set up on the bar
and play my guitar. We didn't have a band. They
didn't have a band. So uh, that's how that's But
Texas kept.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Me going, I'll be, I'll be. I've never heard. I'm
gonna ask you one more questions. When when's the last
time you dumped a bowl of beans on? Anybody said, Well,
that was my husband's.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I hadn't I hadn't put another one on anybody's head. Sence,
he was so shocked he didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Well, yeah, I'm sure he would be a little bit shocked.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I hope he didn't have done to me what he's done.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Oh well, you know what, you need to write a
book about marriage advice. That's what you need to do.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That's right. I can't stand to hear these women hollered
about this man hit her and this man done that. Well, hell,
why would you sitting at a man hitch you knock
the head out of them?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I like that advice right there, anytime. Put that on
a bumper sticker.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
In fact, what it's ridiculous to hear a woman talk
like that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, okay, now, okay, you're saying you really kind of
bucked it when you went to in Nashville. Whenever you
put a stop to a fair and young getting you
on the butt getting inside the opry, Is that right?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Wow? He never tried that again, did he?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
No? Yeah, he never did. And he was my best
friend really yeah, he and he was my husband's best
friend in Nashville too. Burne was such a good guy.
You know, there was nobody that didn't love Fern and
there was nobody didn't want to be around him when
he was drunk.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Well, I hope that you share some more stories with us.
It's a pleasure to talk to you. I hope you
have a great birthday. And stay inside. Okay, if not
they were released those rattlesnakes.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Oh god, I'm telling you I was gonna stay inside.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Do it. Tell Tim, thank you. We're gonna wrap you
and Willie Nelson in bubble wrap. Make sure everything's okay.
Is that fine? Right, we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Well, you know, I really love Willie. Me and Willie
started the same year. You know, we got the Nashville
lame her.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Really I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, Yeah, Willie Nelson is one of a kind.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
He definitely is one of a kind.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You know, he's a great guy.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
He is, he really is.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
He'll do anything in the world for you, Bless your
little heart. I'm so glad that he's getting the recognition
that he's getting right now.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
He is, He's a he is a Texas treasure.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Certainly, Ra certainly is well.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Miss Lynn. Been a pleasure talking to you, and we'll
catch you up real soon. I hope that you have
a real nice afternoon.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Okay, and we'll talk. We'll talk in person with some
of my uh stuff that I won't put in the book.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I cannot wait. I need more advice from you.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
We'll do it, okay, honey, thank you, Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Never got a chance to meet her in first and
she passed away a couple of years later at the
age of ninety. But man, just going back and listening
to that interview right now, she was feisty. She was
eighty eight at the time that we did the interview
right there. But yeah, the legendary Loretto. And hope you
enjoyed it. Boy, I certainly enjoyed listening to it again
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Welcome to Bob Pickett Radio. I was going back through
some old hard drives here today I found an interview
I did with the legendary Loretta Lynn back in twenty twenty,
the COVID year when everybody was staying inside. Loretta had
just released a book about her time with Patsy Clyde,
and I was able to get on the phone and
talk to her. She was eighty eight at the time,
(00:20):
and again, this is twenty twenty, just a couple of
years before she passed away. So let's listen to this
entire interview and go back in time with the legendary
Country Music Hall of Famer. Man, what a great lady,
Loretta Lynt. Oh, Bob, Miss Loretta Lynn, how are you doing.
I'm Bob Pickett.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm doing real good, Bob.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You did? Okay, you're hunker down now right at your house.
She's not going outside.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I just got out of the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's a noise I heard in the background.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, I wanted to give you the port if I
know you're gonna talk like that, I feel like I
know you know't Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
For sure, for sure. Well I feel like I've known
you because I've met your sister. I I met the twins,
and I've met your granddaughter, but this is the first
time I've ever had an opportunity to say hello to you,
so it's quite an honor. Miss Lynn.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, honey, it's good to talk to you. You met Taylor.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I met, yeah, back when she was with the group
Stealing Angels a few years back. And sweet, sweet as
can be.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
She is. She's my girl. Yeah, I've revered to death
and she tries so hard, you know, and bless her heart,
she needs to stop working for a little long, listen
to her grandmother, and maybe she can take off again.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I think we all need to listen to you. That's
what I think. That's what I think.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, I don't know about that. She does need to listen.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh my goodness. Hey, can I wish you happy birthday?
I really you know you and I have something in common.
Your birthdays next week? Right, Yes, my birthday Saturday?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh great? Well, if we were together with to celebrate
your birthday, Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
We'd go to Chuck e Cheese. We'd have a good
old time. But I hope you have a great birthday. Okay,
let's let's get to business right now. This book is
just fascinating me and Patsy kicking up dust, and the
big question I've got.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Just preading for that book, you know, I'm just thinking
about how many Patty carried on, you know, and God
only knows what we'd be doing today if we was
up there kicking up dust.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
What took you so long to tell the story when
we saw part of it in the movie and your
book Coal Miner's Daughter. But it took a while to
get this stuff to print, didn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, Patsy, my little daughter. She kept from mommy, and
Heed dropped this. Mommy and Heed dropped this.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, I'm glad that she convinced you.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, she's correct, she's uh my baby.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now, the first time you met Patsy was kind of unusual. Uh.
We want people to buy the book and read it,
but I want to hear it from from your lips.
You met Patsy in her hospital room.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
In the hospital room, Miss wonder La was warded up
to the ceiling and the other one her one of
her arms was and her head was all bandaged. Half
of her face was bandage dep And of course I
didn't get the seer for two or three days, you know,
after I met her because she's all bandaged, dets bad.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But that was a start of a great, great friendship
right there.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
It was. And uh, I said, no, tell them what
we would be doing today, but we would be together
no matter what, now, can.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I We've known about the U, about the visions you
have of ghosts, but you still see Patsy Clyining regularly,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I do. Every time I get into a situation where
I think I'm not going to be able to do
whatever I'm gonna do, She's she's around.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
When's the last time he saw her?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The last time? But the first time went to Vegas?
Uh huh? And I was scared to desk cause old mile,
when am I gonna do Patty that year? And I
look up and she's sitting up, you know, uh just
kind of she's spotting down, you know, just sitting on
her spot down. And she had a white blouse on
(04:06):
and read the jeans and her little boots and uh,
she was just looking down small on at me, And
I said, she's here. So I just didn't show them
going on with it.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh, it's nice to have her as your guardian angel,
so to speak, isn't it really is?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, she's with me now.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Of course, I live in Austin, Texas, and you know
who the big the big cat around here is mister
Willie Nelson, right.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh, I love Willie.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I do too that you were there the first time
that that Patsy tried to record Willie's song Crazy, And
rumor has it she wasn't too crazy about recording that
song at all, was she.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, she wasn't sure about it. She didn't know whether
she wanted to go out far out, you know. She
was trying to uh, Patty wanted to sing his country
as she could be, and I kept telling her, Patsy,
do what you do best, honey. We told each other
(05:05):
things that we thought we needed to say, you know,
and she did. She did it her best. And the
song that I really loved when she got through with
her album was She's Got You. And I've cut that
thing twice.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I can't sing it have as better as her, so
I might as well forget it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
There's a great quote in the book that you wrote,
and it's what really stuck with me after reading the book.
We made each other better.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
We did. We made each other better, oh man.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And you also reveal some some personal stuff in the book.
I mean, miss Lynn, I had to close one eye
reading it. I could not believe what I was reading
right there in the book.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, my husband says, Lord, you wrote some stuff, but
I don't. My God been telling us this to me.
I said, well, it wasn't you, was it?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
But no, what a beautiful book. It's great. You know
there's somebody else say, we know a couple of people
in common. I've been trying to get at Billy Park
to write his story about Conway twenty You know Bill Park,
don't you, Conway's bus driver.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh yeah, Billy.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I keep telling him he needs to put that in
print for people to to just share the experience of
traveling along with Conway and you.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So maybe maybe you can talk him into time.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, if you do tell him to put that in print,
we've been I've been trying to get him to that
for years and years.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Oh he should, he really should.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, he certainly.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Conway was one of a kind, and he was one
of the best people I've ever known.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now, speaking of driving, you got your first driving lesson
from Patsy Kline, and man, that was an eye opener
right there. You revealed that in the book.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, I took her for a ride. He thought she
wasn't going to make it home. She really, he said,
I think you better just pull it over.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
When I get through driving, you still.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
There was very vivid. The last time you actually saw
Patsy in person, you went back from a hug. You
just have a feeling that that was gonna be the
last time that you'd see her alive.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I never dreamed. But we went back to the house
and we were sitting on the couch and just talking
about things that we wanted to do or was going
to do, you know, and things that had been done
and wasn't done right. And we got the laughing back,
got the rastling was right down in the floor of raftling. Yeah,
(07:33):
I mean we were we were girlfriends. Yeah, we were
just two little girls.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
My goodness, we went.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Right back to being eight years old. You know, That's
how we were.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Do you ever wish you could train the clock back?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We go back to those days friendship. For nothing else
in the world, not one day of her friendship would
I would I let go?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, I am so glad that you decided to share
the story with us, And it's it's it certainly is
a very fascinating book. And I know you've got the
only problem I have with the book is it's way
too short. You've got some more stories that you need
to share with us.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, we can wrote ten of them, couldn't we.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Certainly it could have been a volume one.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Again.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Well, I hope you will.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I hope you will be surprised how much help she is.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Oh? Man, Well, uh, tell me about being hunkered down
with us. You're you're staying in your house now, You're
not going any place, right, That's right? You know here
in Texas they have released rattlesnakes. Just keep all the
people inside.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
They could do that in Tennessee, too, couldn't they?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You are kidding me, kidding?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I am man. I'm the first lie I've ever told you?
Was that lie right there?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I bet?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
But you you can feel free to share that lie
anytime you want to.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
How's that? That's a good one. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well. I really really enjoyed the book so much, read
it twice, and it's such an honor to talk to you.
And I hope when this craziness gets over, you finally
make your way down here to Austin, Texas where we can.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You know that Texas is my state. It is now
you know that I would never leave Texas.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Really well, we just got to get you down here.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I love Texas and that's that's you know, when things
was really bad, Huh, Texas fed me, me and my family.
I had four little kids and two on the way
at the time. And I'm telling you, I owe everything
(09:37):
to Texas for making sure that my family eat that
year that I first come back from Washington.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Wow, wow, I see that's the story. That's another book
right there, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
They sent me, Yes, they sent me from one little
tavern to the next one. You know, I wasn't making
but twenty five to fifty dollars a night, you know,
but I'd be on. I'd set up on the bar
and play my guitar. We didn't have a band. They
didn't have a band. So uh, that's how that's But
Texas kept.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Me going, I'll be, I'll be. I've never heard. I'm
gonna ask you one more questions. When when's the last
time you dumped a bowl of beans on? Anybody said, Well,
that was my husband's.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I hadn't I hadn't put another one on anybody's head. Sence,
he was so shocked he didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Well, yeah, I'm sure he would be a little bit shocked.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I hope he didn't have done to me what he's done.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Oh well, you know what, you need to write a
book about marriage advice. That's what you need to do.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That's right. I can't stand to hear these women hollered
about this man hit her and this man done that. Well, hell,
why would you sitting at a man hitch you knock
the head out of them?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I like that advice right there, anytime. Put that on
a bumper sticker.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
In fact, what it's ridiculous to hear a woman talk
like that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, okay, now, okay, you're saying you really kind of
bucked it when you went to in Nashville. Whenever you
put a stop to a fair and young getting you
on the butt getting inside the opry, Is that right?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Wow? He never tried that again, did he?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
No? Yeah, he never did. And he was my best
friend really yeah, he and he was my husband's best
friend in Nashville too. Burne was such a good guy.
You know, there was nobody that didn't love Fern and
there was nobody didn't want to be around him when
he was drunk.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Well, I hope that you share some more stories with us.
It's a pleasure to talk to you. I hope you
have a great birthday. And stay inside. Okay, if not
they were released those rattlesnakes.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Oh god, I'm telling you I was gonna stay inside.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Do it. Tell Tim, thank you. We're gonna wrap you
and Willie Nelson in bubble wrap. Make sure everything's okay.
Is that fine? Right, we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Well, you know, I really love Willie. Me and Willie
started the same year. You know, we got the Nashville
lame her.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Really I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, Yeah, Willie Nelson is one of a kind.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
He definitely is one of a kind.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You know, he's a great guy.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
He is, he really is.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
He'll do anything in the world for you, Bless your
little heart. I'm so glad that he's getting the recognition
that he's getting right now.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
He is, He's a he is a Texas treasure.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Certainly, Ra certainly is well.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Miss Lynn. Been a pleasure talking to you, and we'll
catch you up real soon. I hope that you have
a real nice afternoon.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Okay, and we'll talk. We'll talk in person with some
of my uh stuff that I won't put in the book.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I cannot wait. I need more advice from you.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
We'll do it, okay, honey, thank you, Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Never got a chance to meet her in first and
she passed away a couple of years later at the
age of ninety. But man, just going back and listening
to that interview right now, she was feisty. She was
eighty eight at the time that we did the interview
right there. But yeah, the legendary Loretto. And hope you
enjoyed it. Boy, I certainly enjoyed listening to it again
and really enjoyed talking with her on the phone. And remember,
(13:09):
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