Loretta Lynn

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

Loretta Lynn, the "Coal Miner's Daughter" whose gutsy lyrics and twangy, down-home vocals made her a queen of country music for seven decades, has died.

Loretta Lynn, the country music star who brought unparalleled candor about the domestic realities of working-class women to country songwriting, died at her ...

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

(BBC). Loretta Lynn, whose songs of strength and independence made her a standard-bearer for women in country music, has died at the age of 90.

Loretta Lynn, the acclaimed singer and songwriter whose ascent from a small Kentucky coal-mining community to national country music stardom became the ...

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

The singer recorded 60 studio albums, topped the US national charts 16 times and was nominated for the Grammy awards 18 times in what can be described a ...

“Sitting right there, the first woman to win CMA entertainer of the year: Miss Loretta Lynn!” The audience at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville roared as Lynn, ...

Country music icon Loretta Lynn passed away at the age of 90. According to her relatives, Lynn passed away on October 4 at her home in Hurricane Mills, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

British Columbia is a long way from the Appalachian coal fields, but the role that a south Vancouver chicken coop played in the rise of country music legend ...

Martina McBride speaks to TODAY's Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie about Loretta Lynn's legacy and how she helped many women in the music industry.

Opinion. Another queen is dead. Long live Loretta Lynn. Image without a caption. By ...