![]() ![]() The song peaked at the top spot of the US country chart. If you are one of the people who listen to funky country love songs, you will truly love Josh Turner’s Your Man. Although a song about a divorced woman “being loose and free” was certainly controversial to many in the early Seventies, it quickly became Lynn’s sixth solo number one single and eventually went on to be recorded by the White Stripes in 2001 and Neko Case in 2004.- W.H. Keith Whitley’s When You Say Nothing At All is perfect if you run out of words to say to your lover. Best Romantic Country Songs Of All Time - Greatest Old Classic Country Love Songs Collection Follow Legend Country Subscribe for More. Just four years after Tammy Wynette was still only spelling the word, the Coal Miner’s Daughter sang about divorce by boldly addressing both the prudish judgment (“All they're thinking of is your experience of love, their minds eat up with sin”) and the one-sided double standard faced by divorcees (“The women all look at you like you're bad and the men all hope you are”). While Loretta Lynn has never been one to mince words or tread lightly in her songs – see “The Pill,” “Dear Uncle Sam,” “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” – it was her 1972 single “Rated X” that may have covered the most uncharted lyrical territory for mainstream country music audiences.
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