“I remember saying, ‘I don’t want to see it.’ But I loved it. “I remember my parents making me watch ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter,’ ” Hayes said by phone from Nashville. 10, flashed back to childhood upon hearing of Lynn’s death. We all know how Spokane loves country.”Ĭountry sensation Walker Hayes, who will headline the Spokane Arena on Nov. “I remember her wearing one of those long dresses and the place was packed. “Loretta Lynn was excellent,” McLaughlin said.
Lorrie McLaughlin, who worked at the Coliseum in the 1970s, recalls experiencing Lynn there in 1974. Because she writes her own songs, and because in each of them is, as she says, a little piece of her, we’re given parts of a puzzle that come together with a surprising depth.” She is an artist whose personal vision has been quickened by the struggle to always go forward. “She radiated a charismatic strength that carries its roots in something deeper than success. The Spokesman-Review’s Don Adair was captivated by Lynn after experiencing her 1981 show at the Opera House. The local reviews were mixed over the years, but when Lynn was on, critics gushed. Her final Spokane appearance was before a sold-out Northern Quest Resort and Casino in 2012. In 1995, she was in the lineup of the Festival at Sandpoint.
The charming icon played the Spokane Opera House in February 1977, September 1981 August 1982 and July 1986.
Lynn sang at the Coliseum in February 1973, April 1974 and October 1988. Lynn, who was 90, performed on at least eight occasions in the Lilac City and at least once in the Idaho Panhandle.Ĭonsidering she and her late husband, Oliver “Doolittle” Lynn, spent the early years of their marriage in the Western Washington community of Custer, between Bellingham and Blaine, it’s not surprising she’d feel somewhat at home in the Northwest. Loretta Lynn, the Queen of Country music, died Tuesday at her Tennessee home. The Coal Miner’s Daughter was apparently comfortable in Spokane.
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