Some great advice from Loretta Lynn to ponder this Thursday.

“I had more verses [to Coal Miner's Daughter]. Owen Bradley said, ‘Loretta, there’s already been one El Paso and we’ll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.’ Yeah, I took six verses off.”

Wow! Wouldn't it be nice to have so much to edit down. I would love to hear those verses….

“Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won’t. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.”

“Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody’s living that. Not just somebody, there’s a lot of people.”