Loretta Lynn

Country singer and songwriter who was the defiant voice of the ordinary woman over a career that spanned six decades.

Country music legend Loretta Lynn died on Tuesday, Oct. 4, in her Hurrican Mills, Tennessee home at the age of 90. Born in Butcher Hollow, Lynn was known as ...

In the male-dominated world of country music in the 1960s and '70s, Lynn built a reputation as a hillbilly feminist who was talented enough to write her own ...

It swung open a screen door and invited listeners inside her Kentucky holler. It defined life as a coal miner's daughter and shared wisdom on long nights when ...

A reflection of Loretta Lynn's highly anticipated, late-career album "Van Lear Rose," a collaboration between her and producer Jack White.

From the death of country singer Loretta Lynn to Elon Musk offering to buy Twitter (again) and an update on that asteroid moonlet which got whacked by NASA, ...

Kentucky-born singer went from poverty and teenage marriage to becoming one of the most celebrated stars of US country.

Lynn died at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, her family said in a statement posted on Twitter on Tuesday. “Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, ...

Please click below to help InDaily continue to uncover the facts. Three years later, President Barack Obama presented her a Presidential Medal of Freedom. She taught herself to play and began performing at radio stations. “I was lost without him. On her 24th birthday Doo gave Lynn a $17 guitar and lots of encouragement. Documents uncovered by the Associated Press, however, indicated she was 15 when she married.

Loretta Lynn changed country music with "The Pill" in 1975. In a post-Roe America, its legacy is complicated.

Obviously, the shape of Lynn’s legacy will eventually be decided by her music more than her political endorsements, and that’s good, because her songs make the chronic problems in today’s country music industry feel so clear. [Coal Miner’s Daughter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoKThsOCjuU)” was Lynn’s hallmark, “The Pill” is her triumph, and its legacy in a post-Roe America has become more complicated than previously imaginable. In 1975, “The Pill” was a controversial hit about hard-won freedoms, Lynn’s playful twang conveying its liberated mood with levity and bounce.

In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lynn's family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. “Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, ...

The singer's family has broken the news, sharing that she 'passed away peacefully'.

Lynn, whose sister Crystal Gayle also became a country star, was the first female to win the Country Music Association’s “Entertainer of the Year” honour in 1972. Three years later, President Barack Obama presented her a Presidential Medal of Freedom. In Rated X she sang about the inequities of man-woman relationships and her song The Pill celebrated the sexual freedom that birth control gave women. She taught herself to play and began performing at radio stations. On her 24th birthday Doo gave Lynn a $17 guitar and lots of encouragement. Documents uncovered by the Associated Press, however, indicated she was 15 when she married.

The Country Music Hall of Famer, whose 50th studio album was released just last year, wrote fearlessly about sex and love, cheating husbands, divorce and ...

"I was devastated," she said. She had 17 grandchildren and four step-grandchildren. "I was lost without him. Sissy Spacek's portrayal of Lynn won her an Academy Award and the film was also nominated for best picture. And the men loved it, too." But there wasn't really a Butcher Holler. The rest were afraid to." She moved to Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, outside of Nashville, in the 1990s, where she set up a ranch with a replica of her childhood home and a museum. Her daddy played the banjo, her mama played the guitar and she grew up on the songs of the Carter Family. "It was what I wanted to hear and what I knew other women wanted to hear, too," Lynn told the AP in 2016. She was the first woman ever named entertainer of the year at the genre's two major awards shows, first by the Country Music Association in 1972 and then by the Academy of Country Music three years later. "I was just the first one to stand up there and say what I thought, what life was about.

Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter and moonshiner's wife who became one of American country music's biggest stars...

The celebrated country and western star Loretta Lynn is dead at 90. Crikey looks at some of the lyrics that rocked the world.

"I miss her dearly," says the star, after fellow country singer Loretta Lynn dies at the age of 90.

Mr. Abdurraqib is a poet, an essayist and a cultural critic. If I wanted to interview Loretta Lynn, I was going to have to write her a ...

While Lynn claimed not to be a 'big fan of women's liberation', her songs told a different story, documenting female pleasure, pain and physicality.

Country music legend passed away in her sleep. Sad news from the entertainment world with the passing of one of the most well-known singers of country music ...

The country star sang about desire, cheating, heartache and righteous revenge in three-minute vignettes that depicted lives she knew and understood.

“You called me your wife to be,” she sings, with a bitter downward swoop on “wife”; she sings “You turned a flame into a blaze” with an upward leap on “flame” and a quaver on “blaze” that make the fire almost visible. [“Wings Upon Your Horns,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDKHspqZvHg) sung by an “innocent country girl” who was seduced and betrayed — with an overlay of religious imagery that was controversial at the time — has a placid midtempo backup. As a singer, Lynn applied what she learned from the twang and vibrato of Kitty Wells and the torchy intensity of Patsy Cline to her own voice: reedy and tart with steely underpinnings, ready to summon tearfulness or indignation, slyly eluding the beat to hesitate at one moment and blurt something the next. While mainstream country moved away from Lynn’s lean traditionalism toward arena-scale production, she persevered, touring through the decades and earning generation upon generation of new admirers. But it still held the ring of truth. “I was just the first one to stand up there and say what I thought, what life was about. [desire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj4krt6-E5Y), cheating, heartache and righteous revenge. Lynn was the coal miner’s daughter who kept her Kentucky drawl and remembered clearly what it was like growing up poor in Butcher Holler. The Appalachian traditions Lynn had grown up on lingered in her music; she wrote tunes in the familiar forms of waltzes, ballads and honky-tonk shuffles. “You put your whole heart into a song when you’re hurting.” Drawing on the experiences of the turbulent 48-year marriage that she began in her teens, she sang about Her songs were terse, scrappy and so skillfully phrased that they sounded like conversation, despite the neatness of their rhymes.

The 1976 book (and its 1980 film adaptation) helped the world see the country star's remarkable resilience. The writer who worked by her side remembers his ...

Lynn, who died Oct. 4, grew up in poverty in eastern Kentucky and went on to have 16 No. 1 hits. Her life story was portrayed in the 1980 film Coal Miner's ...