10 Ways to Remember Country Music Legend Loretta Lynn
Posted on October 5, 2022
by Eric P
When “Coal Miner’s Daughter” is the title of one of your best-known songs, your autobiography, and the Oscar-winning movie of your life, you know your life is pretty much inseparable from your art. That’s what happened with country music legend Loretta Lynn, who was born to a family of meager means in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, and died ninety years later on October 4, 2022 as a multiple Grammy winner and a national treasure, having turned the rough-and-tumble details of her life into chart-topping hits.
Lynn wrote songs about cheating husbands and fistfights and drinking husbands and ex-wives and lying husbands and birth control. The autobiographical grounding of her lyrics made them gritty; her nimble facility for a playful turn of phrase kept them lively. Her candid engagement with current events periodically got her banned from country radio but over time she became an indelible American icon, collaborating with everyone from Conway Twitty to indie rocker Jack White.
Coal Miner’s Daughter
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