Jon Pareles, the New York Times pop music critic, says Loretta Lynn didn’t pretty things up.
Lynn died October 4, 2022, in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, at age 90.
Even if you don’t like country music, you’ve got to respect the woman who married at 13, had four babies at 17 and then two more, and literally lifted herself out of poverty through grit and talent. Here are two key quotes from Pareles:
“I wasn’t the first woman in country music,” Lynn said in an Esquire interview in 2002. “I was just the first one to stand up there and say what I thought, what life was about. The rest were afraid to.”
“The more you hurt, the better the song is,” she told me in a 2016 New York Times interview, when I visited her at her home in Hurricane Mills. “You put your whole heart into a song when you’re hurting.”
Texas gives easier access to court filings
Texas, with a population of 30 million, is the second largest state in the country. The remaining states in the top four have already made the move from delayed to on-receipt access for court filings or they are in the process of doing so, according to reporting by Bill Girdner, October 3, 2022, in courthousenews.com.
Austin, Texas, became the first to offer instant access to its e-filing system, but Girdner says the rest of the Texas state courts will follow. All use the same e-filing system. Also, Texas is the home base for Tyler Technologies which makes the most popular e-filing software in the nation.
Court clerks had been holding files for review before making them available. Public records means just that: records for the public.
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Sandra Clark is editor/CEO of Knox TN Today Inc.