She loved music and, after cancer treatment, had a lyric from the Beatles Blackbirdd tattooed on her arm: "Take these broken wings and learn to fly".
Jerry Wexler came up with the two-word title – all Gerry Goffin had to do was write the rest of the lyric.
Heavy on the ballad and the emotional lyric, typified by fiddles, guitars and harmonicas, country music has its roots deep in the Appalachian mountains from where it emerged in the 1920s, but its origins were also heavily influenced by traditional Celtic ballads from Scotland and Ireland, brought to the US by immigrants from Europe.
Hegarty has sung and spoken about being transgender many times, most notably in "For Today I Am A Boy", with its opening lyric: "One day I'll grow up/I'll be a beautiful woman".
In the lyric "We can do it, Mama is gonna see to it", she's saying, "No matter what, I'm going to make sure it happens".
Maddie & Tae's lovely follow-up single Fly hasn't soared on country radio, but buzzy tracks like Sierra (which features the most hilariously mean lyric of the year: "Ooh, I hope that I'm around/When you get knocked up or get knocked down") prove that there's more of the saucy humour that won them acclaim in the first place.
Chevy Thunder is indeed thunderous, with a lyric about wanting to "take your father's car and drive, drive, drive" that is pure Springsteen worship.
The album's fourth track, Arabella, has a surrealist quality akin to Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (sample lyric: "Her lips are like the galaxy's edge/And a kiss the colour of a constellation falling into place").
Underpinning Goffin's lyric, Carole King's rolling, stately piano-led melody points towards the direction of her solo career; within a year of this single reaching the US Top 10, Goffin and King's partnership was over.
(And the lyric is "long list of ex-lovers", not "lonely Starbucks lovers").
There were occasional later lyric notes to her feminism, when figures from Greek vases might be joined by fashion plates or lingerie ads: non-hierarchical figures as she would say; not great, but they pointed up the intensity of her central work.
