Coal Miner’s Daughter
How I Learned to Love Country Music on Loretta Lynn’s Dude Ranch
Motorcycles, campfires, and a beer with Mooney
2 min readOct 18, 2022
“Not my thing,” was my standard response when someone mentioned country music to me. How could anyone enjoy all that twang? It seemed to me every country song was about broken hearts, hard-drinking, or hound dogs. I…