She kept up a high release rate, with at least two and as many as four albums each year between 19. Her second No 1, Fist City, was a threat to other women not to come near her husband, while another country chart-topper, Rated X, addressed the stigma of divorce 1975’s The Pill crossed over into the pop charts with its controversially frank celebration of birth control. I’m a Honky-Tonk Girl was inspired by the story of someone Lynn met and befriended, and its subject matter – a woman devastated by a breakup – would be visited again and again by Lynn, whose songs often depicted broken hearts or damaging relationships, and often featured feisty heroines.
The song was a success, reaching the country Top 20, and led to her being signed by a major label, Decca. “Because we were too poor to stay in hotels, we slept in the car and ate baloney and cheese sandwiches in the parks … we were on the road three months,” she later remembered. It was released on a small independent label, and she and Oliver doggedly marketed the single themselves by driving from one country radio station to another. She began writing her own songs and released her debut single, I’m a Honky-Tonk Girl, in 1960. Oliver bought her a guitar as an anniversary present in 1953, and Lynn started a band with her brother Jay Lee, Loretta and the Trailblazers, while she lived as a housewife, now in Washington state.
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