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Nearly 55 years ago, Loretta Lynns You Aint Woman Enough shouldnt have been a hit.
Just six women had ever earned a solo country No.
1 by 1966 none of them for songs they wrote, and mostly for sentimental fare.
Lynns self-penned song addressed to the other woman eyeing her man never reached No.
1 but still became her biggest commercial success yet, peaking at No.
Months later, in February 1967, she got her first country No.
1 written by the same woman who performed it.
(In fact, Lynn co-wrote it with her sister, Peggy Sue Wright.)
Nowhere is that reminder clearer than the albums opener and only new composition, the title track.
Been knocked down but never out of the fight, the trio sing in the chorus.
And whatwouldLynn have left to prove, anyway?
Topping it off, Lynns winking sense of humor is still sharp.
