CR002 - The Pill: Why Was Loretta Lynn Banned?

Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music

Tyler Mahan Coe

History

4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Cocaine & Rhinestones briefly examines the history of contraceptive laws in America (Trigger Warning: abortion is discussed) before moving on to uncover the staggering inequality of morality applied to women in country music versus that applied to men in country music. Tyler Mahan Coe takes you on a deep dive of songs banned from radio in the United States, outlining a strong case against the country music establishment's lopsided attitude toward its artists based on their gender. If your mind isn't blown by the evidence laid out here, then it's only because you're jaded, because, on some level, you've always known this is true and grown resigned to it as a reality in this world. Even then, your capacity for amazement may surprise you Recommended if you like: Kitty Wells, Webb Pierce, Jimmie Rodgers, Dixie Chicks, Conway Twitty, KT Oslin, Garth Brooks, Sunday Sharpe, Lorene Mann, Jeannie C. Riley, Hank Thompson and feminism. Also recommended if you don't like: Barbra Streisand. The companion blog post for CR 002 The Pill - containing information and links to songs, video clips, books and articles used for the episode - can be found at: https://cocaineandrhinestones.com/loretta-lynn-pill-ban You can always visit cocaineandrhinestones.com to run a search for you favorite country artists to see if they appear in an episode of Cocaine & Rhinestones. (This will be more accurate than relying on a search in your podcast app.)

Please, if you're a fan of country music, tell your friends that there is a new podcast about country music. If they don't like podcasts, the post for every episode on the site has a full transcript they can read instead. I don't believe there are any country music podcasts out there telling these stories but they deserve to be heard.

Thank you.

-TMC

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0:00.0	This episode of Cocaine and Rhyne Stones touches on a topic that will be upsetting for some listeners.
0:05.7	If abortion is a particularly sensitive subject for you, I suggest going to Cocaine and Rhyne Stones.com.
0:12.8	Every episode of the podcast has a companion blog post with a transcript you can read to preview the episode.
0:30.0	The California Coastal Records Project is an attempt to acquire and maintain up-to-date photographs of the entire California coastline.
0:50.8	They began doing this in 1997 before we had things like Google Earth.
0:58.4	It's a husband and wife team. She flies a helicopter and he takes the pictures.
1:04.0	The thing about the California coast is a whole lot of rich and famous people own houses on it.
1:10.6	Beachfront Property
1:14.0	In 2002, one of those people was Barbara Shrye's hand. In 2003, she sued the project.
1:21.2	One of the pictures on their website had her house in it.
1:25.2	The picture isn't some paparazzi close-up on her backyard. They didn't add an arrow pointing to her home with text saying,
1:33.5	Babs lives here. It's a picture of a beach with some big houses in the background.
1:38.1	I know this because I've seen the picture. You can go see the picture too.
1:42.7	On the California Coastal Records Project website,
1:45.9	Barbara Shrye's lawsuit was dismissed by the state of California.
1:51.4	She had to pay over $150,000 to cover the project's legal fees. But here's the real kicker.
1:58.3	When the suit was filed, the offending photograph had only been downloaded six times.
2:04.3	And two of those were from Shrye's own attorneys.
2:09.1	The publicity from the lawsuit sent nearly half a million people to the website within one month.
2:16.0	That picture has now surely been seen. Millions of times more than it would have been.
2:20.8	If Shrye's hand hadn't filed her lawsuit.
2:24.2	Her effort to hide a thing from the world caused many more people to see that thing
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