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Documentary, album explore
Loretta Lynn’s Appalachian roots
KRISTIN M. HALL and rocking the babies to and Johnny Cash, helped In this Feb. 10, 2016 photo, Loretta Lynn poses for a photo at the
Associated Press sleep. He’d say, ‘Loretta, her revisit some of these Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — shut that big mouth. Peo- songs, including a couple
When Loretta Lynn was ple all over this holler can of Carter Family standards, Associated Press
growing up in Butcher Hol- hear you.’ And I said, ‘Dad- “Black Jack David,” and “I
low in Kentucky in 1930s, dy, what difference does Never Will Marry.” The Cart- gether,” Cash said. “To me, and banjo tracks, Lynn’s
her home in the coal min- it make? They are all my ers were a musical dynasty it was a lot like working with steady vocals evoke that
ing community was always cousins.’” from just over the Appala- my mom again. Loretta’s high lonesome sound of the
filled with music, either The documentary, “Loretta chian Mountains in Virginia sense of humor, her cre- mountains.
from her own voice echo- Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl,” — lead by A.P. Carter, his ative drive and just the very The album starts with the
ing through the trees or the chronicles Lynn’s remark- wife, Sara, and his sister-in- nature of her being felt like very first song she ever
sound of the Carter Fam- able rise from a “Coal Min- law Maybelle — who wrote home.” wrote, “Whispering Sea,”
ily’s songs. er’s Daughter” to a country legendary songs like “Keep She also recorded another which was the b-side to
The country icon’s Appa- superstar who wrote frank on the Sunny Side,” ‘’Wild- song from her childhood, her first recording, “I’m a
lachian musical roots are songs about her upbringing wood Flower” and “Will the “In the Pines,” an Appala- Honky Tonk Girl,” released
explored on a new “Ameri- and her experiences as a Circle Be Unbroken.” chian folk traditional dating in 1960. Also included is a
can Masters” documen- wife and mother. “The Carter Family was the back to the 1870s that has new version of “Fist City,”
tary on PBS as well as her Although her rags-to-riches first songs I ever heard,” been sung by everyone a fiery threat to punch any
first new studio album in a story is already well known Lynn recalled. “I was just from Bill Monroe to Lead woman who dared to fool
more than a decade, “Full thanks to a best-selling au- 2 or 3 years old, maybe a Belly. Over a simple guitar around with her man.
Circle,” both debuting Fri- tobiography and Oscar- little older. But I remember
day. Lynn, who was the winning film starring Sissy climbing up on Daddy’s leg
second of eight children in Spacek, Lynn has never and Daddy was playing
her family, said her daddy before recorded many of the old Victrola and play-
played the banjo and her the Appalachian songs ing Carter Family records.”
mama played the guitar that inspired her career. Cash, who is the grandson
and nearly everyone in the Her last album, “Van Lear of Maybelle Carter, said
“holler,” as she pronounces Rose,” produced by rocker recording with Lynn at his
it, could sing or play as well. Jack White, earned her two Cash Cabin studio in Hen-
“I was singing when I was Grammys in 2005. dersonville, Tennessee, felt
born, I think,” said the “Some of them were songs like a family project. They
83-year-old singer during I sang when I was just a lit- have recorded over 100
an interview in Nashville, tle girl,” Lynn said. “I didn’t songs, some of which will
where she was taping a dream any of them would be released on subsequent
new music video with Wil- get on this album.” albums on the Sony Legacy
lie Nelson. “Daddy used It was fitting then that pro- label.
to come out on the porch ducer John Carter Cash, “There was just an immedi-
where I would be singing the son of June Carter ate magic in the studio to-
Tough-guy journeyman actor George Kennedy dies at 91
LINDSEY BAHR bent on bucking the system wins a bet by getting Luke In this April 10, 1968, file photo, nomination.
AP Film Writer as a prisoner on a Southern to eat 50 eggs in an hour. George Kennedy poses with Kennedy said his acting
LOS ANGELES (AP) — chain gang. Its theme of After the critical and com- his Oscar in Santa Monica, ambitions were cemented
George Kennedy, the hulk- rebelling against author- mercial success of “Cool Calif, after winning best sup- when he was a young child.
ing, tough-guy character ity and the establishment Hand Luke,” Kennedy porting actor for “Cool Hand “I remember listening to a
actor who won an Acad- helped make it one of the carved out a niche as one Luke.” Kennedy died, Sun- radio program when I was
emy Award for his portrayal most important films of the of Hollywood’s most rec- day, Feb. 28, 2016, of natural young and it made me feel
of a savage chain-gang tumultuous 1960s. ognizable supporting ac- causes in Boise, Idaho, where good and I remember tell-
convict in the 1960s clas- Kennedy played the role of tors. He had parts in several he moved with his late wife in ing my mom that I wanted
sic “Cool Hand Luke,” has Dragline, the chain-gang action flicks in the 1970s, 2002. He was 91. to make people feel the
died. boss who goes from Luke’s played Leslie Nielsen’s side- way this radio program
His grandson Cory Schenkel No. 1 nemesis to his biggest kick in the “Naked Gun” Associated Press made me feel,” Kennedy
says Kennedy died on Sun- disciple as Newman’s char- spoofs and was J.R. Ewing’s said in 1995.
day morning of old age in acter takes on folk hero sta- business rival in the final all of them) and landed
Boise, Idaho. He was 91. tus among fellow inmates. seasons of “Dallas.” Kennedy a Golden Globe His film career began to
He had undergone emer- The movie garnered four One of his strongest sup- take flight in the early 1960s.
gency triple bypass surgery Academy Award nomina- porting roles was in the hit He starred in 1963’s “Cha-
in 2002. That same year, he tions, and Kennedy was 1970 film “Airport,” which rade,” a whodunit that fea-
and his late wife moved to named best supporting ac- spurred the run of 1970s tures Kennedy, Cary Grant,
Idaho to be closer to their tor. disaster pictures. Kennedy James Coburn and Walter
daughter and her family, Newman and Kennedy pro- played Joe Patroni, a no- Matthau seeking out the
though he still was involved vided a spectacular one- nonsense, cigar-chomping $250,000 they suspect was
in occasional film projects. two punch — Luke as the troubleshooter who stub- left behind by Audrey Hep-
His biggest acting achieve- reticent anti-hero, Dragline bornly guides a jetliner burn’s dead husband. His
ment came in “Cool Hand as an illiterate brute. They stuck on a snow-clogged other acting credits in the
Luke,” a 1967 film about a shared several memorable runway out of harm’s way. 1960s included “The Dirty
rebellious war hero played scenes, including one in The film spawned several Dozen” and “Guns of the
by Paul Newman who is which Kennedy’s character sequels (Kennedy was in Magnificent Seven.”
