Loretta Lynn Comes 'Home' to Nashville's Historic Ryman Auditorium

By Sarah Grant

In 1960, Loretta Lynn was 28 years old, a mother of four, and about to debut her first song "I'm A Honky Tonk Girl" on the famous Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast, staged at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. Lynn and her husband were so poor they slept outside the building in their rundown Pontiac the night before, and split a celebratory doughnut for breakfast.
"I was so nervous, all I can remember was tapping my foot," Lynn, now 82, told her sold-out audience at the Ryman Friday night. Fans young and old sat elbow-to-elbow in the wooden pews of the Mother Church of Country Music to see the icon performing a headlining show there for the first time in 54 years...Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/live-reviews/loretta-lynn-nashville-ryman-auditorium-show-20141013#ixzz3GRTymzq6                                                                         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9eHp7JJgq8&list=RDf9eHp7JJgq8#t=88