![]() ![]() With a few hours to herself, Lynn went to her dressing room and began crafting the verses to “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” ultimately writing nine verses (six made it onto the vinyl).īradley said in the book of Lynn’s phrasing on the key line, “I was borned a coal miner’s daughter,” “That sounds like Loretta to me…I think that’s her charm. The song is a look into Lynn’s life growing up in Kentucky, with a father who “loved and raised eight kids on a miner’s pay.” Earlier in the song, Lynn sang that though they were impoverished, “We had love/ That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of.” Lynn wrote the song by herself, with production from Owen Bradley.Īccording to The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits, written by Billboard contributor Tom Roland, Lynn wrote “Coal Miner’s Daughter” while waiting to do some work on a television show at Nashville’s WSIX studios. ![]() The song’s title became not only Lynn’s sobriquet, but provided the title of both a book and movie based on Lynn’s life. The late Country Music Hall of Fame member Lynn crafted her most well-known, autobiographical hit with this tender ode, which crested on Billboard‘s country charts in 1970. The Judds, "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)".“To have a story that I wrote about my son and have a messenger like George Strait pick it up and sing it, how great is that? … It reached millions of people, more than I ever would have reached with a pulpit, with a little bit of good news for everybody.” It’s not a made up, fabricated thing,” Barker added. ![]() “The great thing about that is that it’s a real story. He landed on the key line, “Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then/ It’s a love without end, amen,” and applied that sentiment to the storyline of a father, a son who later becomes a father, and ultimately to the love of a higher power. The situation also inspired Barker to write about the duality of loving his son while still disciplining him. “That was the night it really came to the reality that I had to be the dad - I couldn’t just be his friend, and I got on him pretty hard,” Barker previously told Bart Herbison of the Nashville Songwriters Association International. Songwriter Aaron Barker crafted the song when his son was going through a phase of teenage rebellion, including getting into a car accident. This ode to the enduring love of a father sent “Love Without End, Amen” to a five-week run atop Hot Country Songs in 1990. See our list of the best country Father’s Day anthems below. We also honored stepfathers with tunes like Brad Paisley’s “He Didn’t Have to Be.” This list includes hits from a range of artists, including George Strait’s “Love Without End, Amen,” Reba McEntire’s “The Greatest Man I Never Knew,” Trace Adkins’s “Just Fishin’,” Ricky Van Shelton’s “Keep It Between the Lines,” and Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue.” Since fathers have fathers too, we threw in a few songs about grandpas as well, such as The Judds’ “Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Ole Days)” and Riley Green’s breakthrough hit “I Wish Grandpas Never Died” (the most recent song to make the list). If you can’t find just the right Father’s Day greeting card or you need a slate of songs to soundtrack a perfect Father’s Day celebration or are just in a nostalgic mood for some fatherly tunes, consider a few of the songs below. For others, the memories might center more around an absentee father who spent long days away at the office or on work trips, or a father who was a stern disciplinarian. In honor of Father’s Day on Sunday (June 18), here’s a look at some of country music’s top tunes saluting dads, whether from the perspective of fathers wrestling with the demands and long-reaching impact of being a parent or from the perspective of children, now grown, reminiscing on the memories and lessons learned from dear ol’ dad.įor some, thinking of their father conjures up memories of baseball games, camping, hugs, fishing trip and working together on cars. Country music has a deep lineage of songs celebrating family - in particular, the bond between children and their fathers. ![]()
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