This is only a fan site, but is dedicated to my favorite band, The Lynns. I hope to do them justice.
BIOGRAPHY:
When Twins Peggy and Patsy Lynn were 6 years old, a teacher asked, "Don't you miss your mama?" Their mother, country music legend Loretta Lynn, was on the road 250 days a year, and the teacher's question stung young Peggy. She took a breath and replied, "My mama has always been gone. I don't know anything different."
The Lynns, 42, now have a flourishing career as a duo and seven kids between them. Often away from home themselves, they know what their children are going through. "My little girl said, 'You're going out on the road again? I hate your record deal!' " says Patsy. "It's very difficult."
As working moms and musicians, the Lynns say, they're lucky to have a good role model in Loretta Lynn. Says Peggy: "You have to let your children know, 'This is what I do.' My mother did that. I never felt my mom was gone because sh-e didn't love me, or for any reason except that's what she did."
The Lynns were brought up in Hurricane Mills, Tenn., mostly by their father, Oliver "Mooney" Lynn. Tommy Lee Jones' portrayal of him in their mother's biopic, Coal Miner's Daughter, was dead-on, the twins say. "My parents fought as passionately as they loved," says Peggy. They had been married 47 years when Mooney died in 1996.
Never "star babies," the twins attended public schools, worked on the family ranch and played with the children of fans who came to the front gate looking for Loretta.
Billboard called The Lynns' self-titled debut album "the first taste of something very special." On it they sing about the romantic night they were conceived, and about how their father died looking into their mother's eyes.
"We knew our mom loved us, and we knew our dad was there for us," says Peggy. "As long as you know that, you're OK."
The Lynns now tour with their mother Loretta Lynn, and spend their time at home with families. Patsy has five children and Peggy has two.
