Loretta Lynn’s song was banned from broadcast by her own family for years because it evoked a painful and unfulfilled love affair with Conway Twitty—but fate chose a different path, as the song was quietly played at her funeral, as a final farewell, a belated acceptance of a lifelong love that could never be expressed as it was with Conway Twitty.
Introduction For years, one particular song associated with Loretta Lynn was kept away from public airplay—not by record executives, not by radio stations, but quietly by those closest to her.…