Photos: Loretta Lynn celebrates 50th anniversary with the Grand Ole Opry Tuesday night with special guests Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Crystal Gayle
From left, the Pistol Annies, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn and Lee Ann Womack perform Tuesday at the Grand Ole Opry in honor of Lynn's 50th anniversary with the Nashville institution. Photos by Chris Hollo
Loretta Lynn and Trace Adkins
The Pistol Annies
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Grand Ole Opry, presented by Human, honored one of its most beloved members, Loretta Lynn, Tuesday night with a show celebrating her 50th Opry Anniversary.
Leading up to Lynn’s closing performance, several of her friends took the stage throughout the night to honor her in words and song.
Among those performing their own hits as well as songs popularized by the guest of honor were Lee Ann Womack (“I Know How”), Crystal Gayle (“Don’t Come Home A- Drinkin’”), Tishomingo resident Miranda Lambert (“Honky Tonk Girl”) and Lambert’s trio Pistol Annies (“Fist City”), who made their Opry debut while Lynn sat cheering the group on from the front row of the Opry House. (The Annies will perform Sunday night at Norman’s Riverwind Casino. For more information, go to www.riverwind.com.)
After Lynn took the stage and performed her hits “They Don’t Make ‘Em Like My Daddy Anymore” and “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” Trace Adkins joined Lynn for the Conway Twitty/Lynn duet smash “Lead Me On.” Womack, Gayle, and the Pistol Annies then all filed on stage to join their musical hero in a rousing version of her signature song “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”
Before Lynn’s final song of the night, Johnathon Arndt of the famed Johnathon Arndt Gallery of Jewels along with Opry vice-president and general manager Pete Fisher, presented the Opry member with a congratulatory gift of a limited Johnathon Arndt 18 KT. pink gold and diamond Swiss timepiece.
Lynn responded to the gift and to multiple standing ovations from the crowd by saying, “The greatest moment of my life was when they inducted me into the Grand Ole Opry. That’s a feeling you only feel once in a lifetime. And I’m glad I did.”
-BAM
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