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“IT WAS LIKE A RUG HAD BEEN PULLED OUT FROM UNDER ME.” — THE PLANE CRASH THAT BROKE COUNTRY MUSIC’S HEART, AND THE PROMISE LORETTA LYNN KEPT FOR A LIFETIME. March 5, 1963. The day the music stopped for Loretta Lynn. Her friend, her mentor, her strength—Patsy Cline—was gone in a tragic plane crash near Camden, Tennessee. A week after the funeral, Loretta walked into a music room and found Patsy’s husband, Charlie Dick, lying on the floor. Empty beer cans scattered around him. Patsy’s new album playing on a haunting, endless loop. Loretta didn’t say a word. She just lay down beside him, and together, they wept for the woman they loved. But Loretta refused to let her friend’s memory fade. On August 6, 1964, Loretta gave birth to twin daughters. She named one Peggy. The other? She named her Patsy. In 1977, she released the album I Remember Patsy, taking “She’s Got You” back to number one—twelve years after Patsy first put it there. Fifty-seven years after that devastating morning, Loretta finally wrote it all down in her 2020 memoir, Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust. When Loretta passed away in October 2022 at ninety years old, the circle was finally complete. Two legends, reunited at last.

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“ONE UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT THAT TOUCHED THE HEART OF AMERICA” — DOLLY PARTON, GEORGE STRAIT, WILLIE NELSON AND CARRIE UNDERWOOD COME TOGETHER IN A POWERFUL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRIT-FILLED MOMENT TO CREATE A BEAUTIFUL PATRIOTIC ANTHEM SO DEEP AND MOVING THAT IT BROUGHT A DIVIDED NATION TOGETHER IN TEARS, HOPE AND LOVE — A TRUE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME MASTERPIECE AND ONE OF THE MOST EMOTIONAL NIGHTS IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY

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