Loretta Lynn stomped total ass at Ameristar on Saturday night

Loretta Lynn
Saturday, February 11, 2011
Ameristar Pavilion

Better than: Any other country starlet who will pack a venue in KC this year. (Eat your heart out, Taylor Swift.)

When you’re lookin’ at me, you’re lookin’ at country, sang Loretta Lynn. Lynn smiled, and pointed to her chest coyly in her glittering, Glenda-the-Good-Witch princess dress. That line drew a swell of cheers from the crowd for a simple reason: They just don’t make ’em like Miss Lynn anymore.

The star performed for a full house at the Ameristar Pavilion at Ameristar Casino. Spotted in the crowd: perfectly coifed bouffants, fringed jackets, ass-length ponytails — male — and plenty of rapt, blue-haired women who had listened to Lynn sing their triumphs and pains for almost 40 years.