Me Patsy Kickin Up Dust, Loretta Lynn
Me Patsy Kickin Up Dust, Loretta Lynn
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Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust
My Friendship with Patsy Cline

Author: Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton

Narrator: Patsy Lynn Russell

Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/07/2020

Synopsis

Discover the "important and inspiring" and never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationship between country music icons Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn (Miranda Lambert).

Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends—country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their relationship up until Patsy's tragic and untimely death.

Full of laughter and tears, this eye-opening, heartwarming memoir paints a picture of two stubborn, spirited country gals who'd be damned if they'd let men or convention tell them how to be. Set in the heady streets of the 1960s South, this nostalgia ride shows how Nashville blossomed into the city of music it is today. Tender and fierce, Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust is an up-close-and-personal portrait of a friendship that defined a generation and changed country music indelibly—and a meditation on love, loss and legacy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean on December 01, 2020

This is a story of friendship between two women. The book is written in a conversational style that made me feel that I was sitting having tea with Loretta Lynn talking about her past. The book provides a view into what life was like for women singers in the 1950s. These two women helped women brake......more

Goodreads review by Majenta on December 22, 2023

So glad I read this. Sweet dreams!......more

Goodreads review by Rikki on March 19, 2020

Listen, no one loves Loretta Lynn as much as I do, but this book is redundant and not great. It got 2 stars instead of 1 because her familiar voice was very comforting during these weird and stressful times.......more

Goodreads review by Jypsy on August 24, 2020

Thank you Grand Central Publishing for a complimentary copy. I voluntarily reviewed this book. All opinions expressed are my own. Me and Patsy Kickin Up Dust By: Loretta Lynn REVIEW ☆☆☆☆☆ Are you a fan of classic country music? Living in the deep south, I grew up with it. This is the amazing story of a......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on May 09, 2020

Patsy and Loretta became fast friends early in their careers. Patsy was a real help to Loretta. There was so much in life she was just aware of. What clothes to wear and makeup which Patsy helped her with. There was never competition between them. Loretta wrote the songs she sang and Patsy sang what o......more

Quotes

"Loretta and Patsy had a bond that set the standard for ladies in music today. They taught us to support each other and to life each other up. I have been in a band with two other women (Pistol Annies) for almost a decade, so I understand that sisterhood more than ever. It's important and inspiring."—Miranda Lambert

"I've always admired the friendship that Loretta and Patsy had. Two "girl singers" breaking ground and changing the times for women in country music together. They got it right. Instead of sizing each other up as competition, they became allies and friends. They paved the way for the rest of us."—Trisha Yearwood

"Patsy and Loretta are two women who can teach us so much about life, especially how to stand up for yourself and how to deal with being a woman in the world of Country Music today because they had to do it in THEIR day. The biggest difference is, these days, we have huge numbers to face that situation together. They didn't have that security. They fought for it. They came together when they both needed a friend most, and reading this book makes you want to have that same bond with a friend. I think they would encourage you, the reader, to find that special friend in your life. Priceless."—Reba McEntire

"Lynn reveals her sincere, heartfelt emotions throughout the narrative, giving readers a true sense of the depths of their friendship as well as the haunting pain of Cline's death. A touching memoir filled with the emotional highs and lows of a deep bond."—Kirkus

"A crackling good storyteller, Grammy Award-winning songwriter and singer Lynn reminisces on her friendship with country music Patsy Cline in this humorous and loving memoir."—Publishers Weekly

"Lynn's fans will absolutely adore this as much for her typical no-holds-barred style as for her country warmth and the loving description of a deeply missed friendship."—Booklist (starred review)

"Lynn, with her daughter Patsy, has written a beautiful, heartbreaking valentine to Cline, who was a mentor and passionate and devoted friend-all of which is manifestly conveyed through Lynn's uniquely distinct eastern Kentucky voice and seemingly endless cascade of stories."—Library Journal (starred review)

"[In] Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust, Loretta chronicles her friendship with Patsy before her tragic passing in 1963. And fans of her classic 1976 memoir, Coal Miner's Daughter, know that nobody tells a story quite like Loretta Lynn."—Southern Living

"Even if Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn weren't two of the most influential artists in country music, this story about the bond between them as they rose to the top of their fields would be a touching meditation on friendship, loyalty, and loss. But playing out against the rise of Nashville and the price of fame, it becomes something even more absorbing."—Town & Country

"Lynn is, above all, a great storyteller, and this book is filled with warm and funny stories, as heartfelt and true as any of her songs. But underneath the folksy veneer is an unvarnished view of what it took for her and Cline to make it to the top."—Associated Press

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