Loretta Lynn Walked Through Mud

"They still got a dirt road up to the town where I grew up -- Butcher Holler, Kentucky. They wanted me to put a paved highway up through there, and I said, 'I walked through mud up to my knees getting out, and you can do the same thing.'"

Loretta Lynn, as told to Andy Ward in Esquire, 2007; Photo by Hulton Archives/Getty Images

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