Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert Perform CMAs 2022 Tribute to Loretta Lynn

10.11.2022 - 05:11 / usmagazine.com

Honoring a country legend. Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert teamed up for a tribute to Loretta Lynn during the 2022 Country Music Association Awards.

Opening the show with a medley of Lynn’s music, Underwood, 39, sang “You Ain’t Woman Enough” while Lambert, 39, and McEntire, 67, performed “Don’t Come Home A Drinkin’” and “You’re Looking At Country,” respectively. The trio closed with the songwriter’s 1971 song “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” Lynn — who became the first woman to win the CMA for Entertainer of the Year in 1972 — died at age 90 in October.

All three women were close to the Kentucky native, with McEntire and Underwood collaborating with Lynn on her March 2021 song “Still Woman Enough.” Lambert, for her part, recorded a version of “Coal Miner’s Daughter” in 2010 with Lynn and Sheryl Crow.

“I’m so heartbroken to hear about Loretta’s passing,” the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend musician wrote via Instagram last month. “She was so kind to me and she blazed so many trails for all of us girls in country music. Thank you for all the songs. Miss you. Fly high.”

Underwood also mourned the Grammy award winner’s passing via social media and shared a fond memory of her.

“The first time I met Loretta Lynn was at the Grand Ole Opry at the beginning of my career. I was chatting in the corner with another artist and someone walked behind me and smacked me on the rear end! I turned around and there she was … in a big sparkly dress … laughing as she continued to walk down the hall at what she had just done,” she wrote via Instagram.

The American Idol alum continued: “This is one of my most favorite stories to tell. I think it sums up her personality pretty well. She was a cantankerous little pistol … friendly and sweet … never