Lynn didn't mention her missing teeth to the audience.
On March 25, 1977, the country star performed for the crowd at Roberts Stadium. She mentioned at the halfway point that she had recently had a mouth operation.
The reality wasn't as good. It was one of a number of dramatic appearances in Evansville over the years that involved everything from birth control to a fellow performer getting punched in the face.
The music legend and Eastern Kentucky native, who died Tuesday at the age of 90, appeared in Evansville in 1977. Her son said that doctors found a cyst in her mouth after she got sick.
Country music legend and coal miner's daughter, Loretta Lynn, died at the age of 90.
They took her teeth and shot her with a gun. She took the stage on a pair of bills.
Aides lined her jaw with ice packs after she finished singing. The hard part followed. The crowd was holding the stage to get a better look at the duet.
Her family said that she died in her sleep at her home in Tennessee. She rose to fame in the 1960s and 1970s, singing songs about everything from rural life to women's liberation, after raising several kids.
The inspiration for the film was her life story. Spacek won an Academy Award for her performance as Lynn.
She hit the Tri-State several times over the course of her career. Her last show in this area was in 2003 She was supposed to play The Victory Theatre in 2009.
There were only a few cancelations. She was more likely to play a show if there was something going on.
During a series of shows in the 70s, it was clear that that was the case.
She battled the flu in 1976, but still performed at the stadium. The real drama happened a year earlier.
At the ’75 show, a team of brothers from Boonville were arrested after they jumped on stage and socked a man in the face while he was trying to get an autograph. Lynn was booed when she played her birth control anthem "The Pill" at her show.
She didn't want to talk about "The Pill" right now. Later on in the show, we will see 'The Pill'.
The crowd went crazy when she started singing.
The article was originally published on the EVANSVILLE COURIER & PRESS.
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