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Loretta Lynn

February 15, 2024

Not to be confused with Loretta Lynch.

Loretta Lynn (née Webb; April 14, 1932 – October 4, 2022) was an American country music singer and songwriter. In a career spanning six decades, Lynn released multiple gold albums. She had numerous hits such as "Hey Loretta", "The Pill", "Blue Kentucky Girl", "Love Is the Foundation", "You're Lookin' at Country", "You Ain't Woman Enough", "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl", "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", "One's on the Way", "Fist City", and "Coal Miner's Daughter". The 1980 musical film Coal Miner's Daughter was based on her life.

Loretta Lynn
Lynn in a 1965 publicity portrait
Born
Loretta Webb

(1932-04-14)April 14, 1932
Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, U.S.
DiedOctober 4, 2022(2022-10-04) (aged 90)
Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, U.S.
Resting placeHurricane Mills, Tennessee
OccupationSinger-songwriter
Years active1960–2022
Spouse
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(m. 1948; died 1996)​
Children6, including Peggy Jean and Patsy Eileen
Relatives
Musical career
Genres
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Labels
Websitelorettalynn.com

Lynn received many awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking role in country music, including awards from both the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music as a duet partner and an individual artist. She was nominated 18 times for a Grammy Award and won three times.[1] As of 2022, Lynn was the most awarded female country recording artist and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade (the 1970s). Lynn scored 24 No. 1 hit singles and 11 number-one albums. She ended 57 years of touring on the road after she suffered a stroke in 2017 and broke her hip in 2018.[2]

Early life and career edit

Lynn was born Loretta Webb in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, on April 14, 1932.[3][4] She was the oldest daughter and second child born to Clara Marie "Clary" (née Ramey; May 5, 1912 – November 24, 1981) and Melvin Theodore "Ted" Webb (June 6, 1906 – February 22, 1959). Ted was a coal miner and subsistence farmer.[5] The family claims Cherokee heritage on Lynn's mother's side, but have not been officially recognized by that tribe.[6] She was named after the film star Loretta Young.[7] The other Webb children were:

 
Childhood home of Loretta Lynn in Kentucky

Loretta's father Ted died at the age of 52 from a stroke four years after relocating with her mother and younger siblings to Wabash, Indiana. He had also been battling black lung disease at the time of his death.[14]

Through her matriline, Lynn was distant cousins with country singer Patty Loveless.[15]

On January 10, 1948, 15-year-old Loretta Webb married Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn (August 27, 1926 – August 22, 1996), better known as "Doolittle", "Doo", or "Mooney".[3] They had met only a month earlier.[3] The Lynns left Kentucky and moved to the northwest Washington state logging community of Custer when Lynn was seven months pregnant with the first of their six children.[5] The happiness and heartache of her early years of marriage would help to inspire Lynn's songwriting.[16] In 1953, Doolittle bought her a $17 Harmony guitar (equivalent to $186 in 2022).[17] She taught herself to play the instrument, and over the following three years, she worked to improve her guitar playing. With Doolittle's encouragement, she started her own band, Loretta and the Trailblazers, with her brother Jay Lee playing lead guitar. She often appeared at Bill's Tavern in Blaine, Washington, and the Delta Grange Hall in Custer, Washington, with the Pen Brothers' band and the Westerneers. She cut her first record, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl", in February 1960.[18]

Career edit

1960–1966: Early country success edit

 
Lynn in 1962

Lynn began singing in local clubs in the late 1950s. She later formed her own band, the Trailblazers which included her brother Jay Lee Webb. Lynn won a wristwatch in a televised talent contest in Tacoma, Washington, hosted by Buck Owens. Lynn's performance was seen by Canadian Norm Burley of Zero Records, who co-founded the record company after hearing Loretta sing.[19]

Zero Records president, Canadian Don Grashey, arranged a recording session in Hollywood, where four of Lynn's compositions were recorded, including "I'm A Honky Tonk Girl," "Whispering Sea," "Heartache Meet Mister Blues," and "New Rainbow." Her first release featured "Whispering Sea" and "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl". Lynn signed her first contract on February 2, 1960, with Zero. Her album was recorded at United Western Recorders in Hollywood, engineered by Don Blake and produced by Grashey.[20][21] Musicians who played on the songs were steel guitar player Speedy West,[22] fiddler Harold Hensley, guitarist Roy Lanham, Al Williams on bass, and Muddy Berry on drums.[23][user-generated source?] Lynn commented on the different sound of her first record: "Well, there is a West Coast sound that is definitely not the same as the Nashville sound [...] It was a shuffle with a West Coast beat".[22]

The Lynns toured the country to promote the release to country stations,[19] while Grashey and Del Roy took the music to KFOX in Long Beach, California.[21] When the Lynns reached Nashville, the song was a hit, climbing to No. 14 on Billboard's Country and Western chart, and Lynn began cutting demo records for the Wilburn Brothers Publishing Company. Through the Wilburns, she secured a contract with Decca Records.[19] The first Loretta Lynn Fan Club formed in November 1960. By the end of the year, Billboard magazine listed Lynn as the No. 4 Most Promising Country Female Artist.[24]

Lynn's relationship with the Wilburn Brothers and her appearances on the Grand Ole Opry, beginning in 1960,[25] helped Lynn become the No. 1 female recording artist in country music. Her contract with the Wilburn Brothers gave them the publishing rights to her material. She unsuccessfully fought the Wilburn Brothers for 30 years to regain the publishing rights to her songs after ending her business relationship with them. Lynn stopped writing music in the 1970s because of the contracts. Lynn joined the Grand Ole Opry on September 25, 1962.[5]

Lynn credited Patsy Cline as her mentor and best friend during her early years in music. In 2010, when interviewed for Jimmy McDonough's biography of Tammy Wynette, Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen, Lynn said of having best friends in Patsy and Tammy during different times: "Best friends are like husbands. You only need one at a time."[26]

Lynn released her first Decca single, "Success", in 1962, and it went straight to No. 6, beginning a string of top 10 singles that would run throughout the 1970s. Lynn's music began to regularly hit the Top 10 after 1964 with songs such as "Before I'm Over You", which peaked at No. 4, followed by "Wine, Women and Song", which peaked at No. 3. In late 1964, she recorded a duet album with Ernest Tubb. Their lead single, "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be", peaked within the Top 15. The pair recorded two more albums, Singin' Again (1967) and If We Put Our Heads Together (1969). In 1965, her solo career continued with three major hits, "Happy Birthday", "Blue Kentucky Girl" (later recorded and made a Top 10 hit in the 1970s by Emmylou Harris), and "The Home You're Tearing Down". Lynn's label issued two albums that year, Songs from My Heart and Blue Kentucky Girl.[27]

Lynn's first self-penned song to crack the Top 10, 1966's "Dear Uncle Sam", was among the first recordings to recount the human costs of the Vietnam War.[5] Her 1966 hit "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" made Lynn the first country female recording artist to write a No. 1 hit.[28]

1967–1980: Breakthrough success edit

In 1967, Lynn released the single "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)",[29] It was her first number one country hit.[30]

Lynn's next album, Fist City, was released in 1968. The title track became Lynn's second No. 1 hit, as a single earlier that year, and the other single from the album, "What Kind of a Girl (Do You Think I Am)", peaked within the top 10. In 1968, her next studio album, Your Squaw Is on the Warpath, spawned two Top 5 Country hits, including the title track and "You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out on Me)". In 1969, her next single, "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)", was Lynn's third chart-topper, followed by a subsequent Top 10, "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)". Her song "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", was an instant hit and became one of Lynn's all-time most popular. Her career continued to be successful into the 1970s, especially following the success of her autobiographical hit "Coal Miner's Daughter", which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart in 1970. The song became her first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 83. She had a series of singles that charted low on the Hot 100 between 1970 and 1975. In 1978, she became a special guest star on The Muppet Show. The song "Coal Miner's Daughter" later served as the impetus for her bestselling autobiography (1976) and the Oscar-winning biopic, both of which share the song's title.[31]

In 1973, "Rated "X"" peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and was considered one of Lynn's most controversial hits. The following year, her next single, "Love Is the Foundation", also became a No. 1 country hit from her album of the same name. The second and last single from that album, "Hey Loretta", became a Top 5 hit. Lynn continued to reach the Top 10 until the end of the decade, including 1975's "The Pill", one of the first songs to discuss birth control. Many of Lynn's songs were autobiographical, and as a songwriter, Lynn felt no topic was off limits, as long as it was relatable to women.[32] In 1976, she released her autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, with the help of writer George Vecsey. It became a bestseller, with more than 8 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.[33]

Professional partnership with Conway Twitty edit

 
David Barnes, Conway Twitty and Lynn in 1979

In 1971, Lynn began a professional partnership with Conway Twitty. As a duo, Lynn and Twitty had five consecutive No. 1 hits between 1971 and 1975, including "After the Fire Is Gone" (1971), which won them a Grammy award, "Lead Me On" (1971), "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" (1973), "As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone" (1974), and "Feelins'" (1974). For four consecutive years, 1972–1975, Lynn and Twitty were named the "Vocal Duo of the Year" by the Country Music Association. The Academy of Country Music named them the "Best Vocal Duet" in 1971, 1974, 1975, and 1976. The American Music awards selected them as the "Favorite Country Duo" in 1975, 1976, and 1977. The fan-voted Music City News readers voted them the No. 1 duet every year between 1971 and 1981, inclusive. In addition to their five No. 1 singles, they had seven other Top 10 hits between 1976 and 1981.[34]

As a solo artist, Lynn continued her success in 1971, achieving her fifth No. 1 solo hit, "One's on the Way", written by poet and songwriter Shel Silverstein. She also charted with "I Wanna Be Free", "You're Lookin' at Country", and 1972's "Here I Am Again", all released on separate albums. The next year, she became the first country star on the cover of Newsweek.[35] In 1972, Lynn was the first woman to be nominated and win Entertainer of the Year at the CMA awards. She won the Female Vocalist of the Year and Duo of the Year with Conway Twitty, beating out George Jones and Tammy Wynette and Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton.[36]

Tribute album for Patsy Cline, other projects, and honors edit

In 1977, Lynn recorded I Remember Patsy, an album dedicated to her friend, singer Patsy Cline, who died in a plane crash in 1963. The album covered some of Cline's biggest hits. The two singles Lynn released from the album, "She's Got You" and "Why Can't He Be You", became hits. "She's Got You", which went to No. 1 by Cline in 1962 and went to No. 1 again that year by Lynn. "Why Can't He Be You" peaked at No. 7. Lynn had her last No. 1 hit in 1978 with "Out of My Head and Back in My Bed".[27]

In 1979, Lynn had two Top 5 hits, "I Can't Feel You Anymore" and "I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind", from separate albums.[37]

 
Lynn on tour in 1975

Devoted to her fans, Lynn told the editor of Salisbury, Maryland's newspaper the reason she signed hundreds of autographs: "These people are my fans... I'll stay here until the very last one wants my autograph. Without these people, I am nobody. I love these people." In 1979, she became the spokesperson for Procter & Gamble's Crisco Oil. Because of her dominant hold on the 1970s, Lynn was named the "Artist of the Decade" by the Academy of Country Music. She is the only woman to have won this honor.[38]

Lynn became a part of the country music scene in Nashville in the 1960s. In 1967, she had the first of 16 No. 1 hits, out of 70 charted songs as a solo artist and a duet partner.[39] Her later hits include "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", "Fist City", and "Coal Miner's Daughter".[40]

Lynn focused on women's issues with themes about philandering husbands and persistent mistresses. Her music was inspired by issues she faced in her marriage. She increased the boundaries in the conservative genre of country music by singing about birth control ("The Pill"), repeated childbirth ("One's on the Way"), double standards for men and women ("Rated 'X'"), and being widowed by the draft during the Vietnam War ("Dear Uncle Sam").[41]

Country music radio stations often refused to play her music and in a 1987 interview she said eight of her songs had been banned.[42]

Her bestselling 1976 autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, was made into an Academy Award–winning film with the same title in 1980, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones. Spacek won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Lynn. Lynn's album Van Lear Rose, released in 2004, was produced by the alternative rock musician Jack White. Lynn and White were nominated for five Grammys and won two.[43][44]

Lynn received numerous awards in country and American music. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983, the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008. She was honored in 2010 at the Country Music Awards. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013.[45] Lynn was a member of the Grand Ole Opry since joining on September 25, 1962. Her debut appearance on the Grand Ole Opry was on October 15, 1960. Lynn recorded 70 albums including 54 studio albums, 15 compilation albums, and a tribute album.[46][unreliable source?][47]

1980–1989: Movie and popularity edit

On March 5, 1980, the film Coal Miner's Daughter debuted in Nashville and soon became the No. 1 box office hit in the United States. The film starred Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones as her husband, Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress Oscar for Spacek, a gold album for the soundtrack album, a Grammy nomination for Spacek, Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music awards, and several Golden Globe awards. The 1980s featured more hits, including "Pregnant Again", "Naked in the Rain", and "Somebody Led Me Away".[35] Lynn's last Top 10 record as a soloist was 1982's "I Lie", but her releases continued to chart until the end of the decade.[27]

One of her last solo releases was "Heart Don't Do This to Me" (1985), which reached No. 19, her last Top 20 hit. Her 1985 album Just a Woman spawned a Top 40 hit. In 1987, Lynn lent her voice to a song on k.d. lang's album Shadowland with country stars Kitty Wells and Brenda Lee, "Honky Tonk Angels Medley". The album was certified gold and was Grammy nominated for the four women. Lynn's 1988 album Who Was That Stranger would be her last solo album for MCA, which she parted ways with in 1989.[48] She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988.[49]

1990–2004: Return to country and second autobiography edit

Lynn returned to the public eye in 1993 with a hit album, the trio album Honky Tonk Angels, recorded with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette.[50] The album peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Country charts and No. 42 on the Billboard Pop charts and charted a single with "Silver Threads and Golden Needles". The album sold more than 800,000 copies and was certified gold in the United States and Canada. The trio was nominated for Grammy and Country Music Association awards. Lynn released a three-CD boxed set chronicling her career on MCA Records. In 1995, she taped a seven-week series on the Nashville Network (TNN), Loretta Lynn & Friends.[51]

In 1995, Loretta was presented with the Pioneer Award at the 30th Academy of Country Music Awards.[52] In 1996, Lynn's husband, Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn, died five days short of his 70th birthday. In 2000, Lynn released her first album in several years, Still Country, in which she included "I Can't Hear the Music", a tribute song to her late husband. She released her first new single in more than 10 years from the album, "Country in My Genes". The single charted on the Billboard Country singles chart and made Lynn the first woman in country music to chart singles in five decades. In 2002, Lynn published her second autobiography, Still Woman Enough, and it became her second New York Times Best Seller, peaking in the top 10. In 2004, she published a cookbook, You're Cookin' It Country.[53]

2004–2022: Late career resurgence edit

 
Lynn performing at South by Southwest in 2016

In 2004, Lynn released Van Lear Rose, the second album on which Lynn either wrote or co-wrote every song. Produced by Jack White of The White Stripes, the album featured guitar and backup vocals by White. The collaboration garnered Lynn high praise from the mainstream and alternative rock music press, such as Spin and Blender.[54] Rolling Stone voted it the second best album of 2004, and it won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album of the Year.[55]

Late in 2010, Sony Music released a new compilation album, Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn, featuring stars like Reba McEntire, Faith Hill, Paramore, and Carrie Underwood performing Lynn's classic hits spanning 50 years. The album produced a Top 10 hit music video on Great American Country of the single "Coal Miner's Daughter", featuring Lynn, Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow. The track cracked the Billboard singles chart, making Lynn the only female country artist to chart in six decades. Lynn's concerts during this period included performances at the Nelsonville Music Festival in Nelsonville, Ohio, in May 2010,[56] and at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 11, 2011.[57] In 2012, Lynn published her third autobiography, Honky Tonk Girl: My Life in Lyrics.[58] She also contributed "Take Your Gun and Go, John" to Divided & United: Songs of the Civil War, released on November 5, 2013.[59]

In November 2015, Lynn announced the completion of a new album, Full Circle. Released in March 2016, the album debuted at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 200[60] and went on to become Lynn's 40th album to make the Top 10 on Billboard's best selling country chart. It featured a combination of new songs and classics, and duets with Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson.[61]

Lynn's holiday album White Christmas Blue was released in October 2016.[62] In December of the same year, Full Circle was nominated for Country Album of the Year in the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.[63]

Following Full Circle, the album Wouldn't It Be Great was released by Legacy Recordings in September 2018 after being delayed by health issues, which had caused Lynn to cancel all of her scheduled tour dates in 2017.[64][65] Lynn was named Artist of a Lifetime by CMT in 2018.[66] On October 19, 2019, Lifetime aired the movie Patsy & Loretta which highlighted the friendship of Lynn and Patsy Cline.[67]

On March 19, 2021, Lynn released her 50th studio album Still Woman Enough, the fourth album of her deal with Legacy Recordings. Recorded in sessions at Cash Cabin in Tennessee, it features Carrie Underwood and Reba McEntire on the title track, alongside duets with Tanya Tucker and Margo Price on re-recordings of "You Ain't Woman Enough" and "One's on the Way", respectively.[68]

Personal life edit

Children edit

Loretta and her husband had six children together. Their eldest daughter, Betty Sue, was born on November 26, 1948, and died of complications associated with emphysema on July 29, 2013.[69][70] Second child and eldest son, Jack Benny Lynn, born December 7, 1949, was found dead by drowning on July 24, 1984, after going missing while horse riding on his mother's Hurricane Mills ranch.[71][72] Their third and fourth children are Ernest Ray Lynn, born May 27, 1951, and Clara Marie "Cissie" Lynn, born less than a year later on April 7, 1952.[73] Their youngest children, twin daughters Peggy Jean and Patsy Eileen, were born on August 6, 1964; they are named after Lynn's sister, Peggy Sue Wright, and her friend, Patsy Cline.[73]

Marriage edit

Lynn was married to Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn (1926–1996) almost 50 years until her husband died at age 69. In her 2002 autobiography, Still Woman Enough, and in an interview with CBS News the same year, she recounted how her husband cheated on her regularly and once left her while she was giving birth.[32] Lynn and her husband fought frequently, but she said that "he never hit me one time that I didn't hit him back twice." Loretta said that her marriage was "one of the hardest love stories".[74][page needed] In one of her autobiographies, she recalled:

I married Doo when I wasn't but a child, and he was my life from that day on. But as important as my youth and upbringing was, there's something else that made me stick to Doo. He thought I was something special, more special than anyone else in the world, and never let me forget it. That belief would be hard to shove out the door. Doo was my security, my safety net. And just remember, I'm explainin', not excusin'... Doo was a good man and a hard worker. But he was an alcoholic, and it affected our marriage all the way through.[75]

Loretta Lynn's Ranch edit

Lynn owned a ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, known as Loretta Lynn's Ranch. Billed as "the seventh largest attraction in Tennessee",[76] it features a recording studio, museums, lodging, restaurants, and western stores. Traditionally, three holiday concerts are hosted annually at the ranch, Memorial Day Weekend, Fourth of July Weekend, and Labor Day Weekend.[77][78]

Since 1982, the ranch has hosted Loretta Lynn's Amateur Championship motocross race, the largest amateur motocross race of its kind. The ranch also hosts GNCC Racing events. The centerpiece of the ranch is its large plantation home which Lynn once resided in with her husband and children. She had not lived in the antebellum mansion in more than 30 years prior to her death. Lynn regularly greeted fans who were touring the house. A replica of the cabin in which Lynn grew up in Butcher Hollow is one of its main features.[77][79]

Politics edit

At the height of her popularity, some of Lynn's songs were banned from radio airplay, including "Rated "X"", about the double standards divorced women face; "Wings Upon Your Horns", about the loss of teenage virginity; and "The Pill", about a wife and mother becoming liberated by the birth-control pill. Her song "Dear Uncle Sam", released in 1966, during the Vietnam War, describes a wife's anguish at the loss of a husband to war. It was included in her live performances during the Iraq War.[19]

Although Lynn was outspoken about her views on controversial social and political subjects, she saw herself as apolitical, writing in her 1976 autobiography that, "I don't like to talk too much about things where you're going to get one side or the other unhappy....My music has no politics."[80]: 153 

When asked about her position on same-sex marriage by USA Today in November 2010, she replied, "I'm still an old Bible girl. God said you need to be a woman and man, but everybody to their own."[81] She endorsed[82] and campaigned[83] for George H. W. Bush in the presidential election in 1988.[84]

While a recognized "advocate for ordinary women", Lynn often criticized upper-class feminism for ignoring the needs and concerns of working-class women.[5] She rejected being labeled a feminist,[85] and wrote in her memoir, "I'm not a big fan of women's liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due."[80]: 56 

In 1971, Lynn performed at the White House, at the invitation of President Richard Nixon. She returned there to perform during the administrations of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush.[86] In 2002's Still Woman Enough, she discussed her longtime friendship and support for Jimmy Carter.[87]

In 2016, Lynn expressed support for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, stumping for him at the end of each of her shows. She stated, "I just think he's the only one who's going to turn this country around."[88]

Lynn allowed PETA to use her song "I Wanna Be Free" in a public service campaign to discourage the chaining of dogs outdoors in the cold.[89][90]

Health and death edit

Over the years, Lynn suffered from various health concerns, including pneumonia on multiple occasions and a broken arm after a fall at home.[91][92]

In May 2017, Lynn had a stroke at her home in Hurricane Mills. She was taken to a Nashville hospital and as a result had to cancel all of her upcoming tour dates. The release of her album Wouldn't It Be Great was delayed until 2018. On January 1, 2018, Lynn fell and broke her hip.[93][94]

Lynn died in her sleep at her home in Hurricane Mills on October 4, 2022, at the age of 90. No cause of death was immediately given.[95][10][96] She was buried three days later on her Hurricane Mills ranch beside her husband Doolittle.[97]

Awards and achievements edit

Main article: List of awards received by Loretta Lynn

Lynn wrote more than 160 songs and released 60 albums. She had 10 No. 1 albums and 16 No. 1 singles on the country charts. Lynn won three Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, eight Broadcast Music Incorporated awards, 13 Academy of Country Music, eight Country Music Association, and 26 fan-voted Music City News awards. Lynn remains the most awarded woman in country music history.[98][99] She was the first woman in country music to receive a certified gold album for 1967's Don't Come Home a' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind).[100]

In 1972, Lynn was the first woman named "Entertainer of the Year" by the Country Music Association. In 1980, she was the only woman to be named "Artist of the Decade" for the 1970s by the Academy of Country Music. Lynn was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988[25] and the Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1999.[101] She was also the recipient of Kennedy Center Honors, an award given the President of the United States, in 2003. Lynn is ranked 65th on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll[102] and was the first female country artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1977.[103] In 1994, she received the country music pioneer award from the Academy of Country Music.[104]

In 2001, "Coal Miner's Daughter" was named among NPR's "100 Most Significant Songs of the 20th Century". In 2002, Lynn had the highest ranking, No. 3, for any living female, in CMT television's special of the 40 Greatest Women of Country Music.[105]

A BMI affiliate for more than 45 years, Lynn was honored as a BMI Icon at the BMI Country Awards on November 4, 2004.[106]

In March 2007, Lynn was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music during her performance at the Grand Ole Opry.[107]

Lynn was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City in 2008. She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for her 50 years in country music in 2010.[108]

Lynn was honored for 50 years in country music at the 44th Annual Country Music Awards on November 10, 2010.[109] That same year, Lynn was presented with a rose named in her honor.[110]

Sony Music released a tribute CD to Lynn titled Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn in November 2010. The CD features Kid Rock, Reba McEntire, Sheryl Crow, Miranda Lambert, Alan Jackson, Gretchen Wilson, The White Stripes, Martina McBride, Paramore, Steve Earle, and Faith Hill. In 2011, Lynn was nominated for an Academy of Country Music, CMT Video and Country Music Association awards for "Vocal Event of the Year" with Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow for "Coal Miner's Daughter", released as a video and single from the CD.[5]

Lynn marked her 50th anniversary as a Grand Ole Opry member on September 25, 2012,[111] and her 60th anniversary in 2022.[112]

Lynn was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2013.[113][114]

Miranda Lambert presented Lynn with the Crystal Milestone Award from the Academy of Country Music.[115] Lynn also received the 2015 Billboard Legacy Award for Women in Music.[116]

In 2016, she was the subject of an American Masters profile documentary Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl on PBS.[117]

Lynn was named Artist of a Lifetime in 2018 by CMT.[66]

In 2020 a statue of Loretta Lynn was unveiled on the Ryman's Icon Walk.[118]

In 2022 Loretta Lynn was inducted into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame.

In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Lynn at number 132 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.[119]

Discography edit

Main article: Loretta Lynn albums discography
See also: Loretta Lynn singles discography and Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn discography

Studio albums

See also edit

References edit

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Bibliography edit

  • Lynn, Loretta; et al. (2002) [1993], Still Woman Enough: A Memoir, Hyperion, ISBN 0-7868-6650-0.

Further reading edit

  • In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, Nicholas Dawidoff, Vintage Books, 1998; ISBN 0-375-70082-X
  • Are You Ready for the Country: Elvis, Dylan, Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock, Peter Dogget, Penguin Books, 2001; ISBN 0-14-026108-7
  • Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes and the changing face of Nashville, Bruce Feiler, Avon Books, 1998; ISBN 0-380-97578-5

External links edit

 
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loretta, lynn, confused, with, loretta, lynch, née, webb, april, 1932, october, 2022, american, country, music, singer, songwriter, career, spanning, decades, lynn, released, multiple, gold, albums, numerous, hits, such, loretta, pill, blue, kentucky, girl, lo. Not to be confused with Loretta Lynch Loretta Lynn nee Webb April 14 1932 October 4 2022 was an American country music singer and songwriter In a career spanning six decades Lynn released multiple gold albums She had numerous hits such as Hey Loretta The Pill Blue Kentucky Girl Love Is the Foundation You re Lookin at Country You Ain t Woman Enough I m a Honky Tonk Girl Don t Come Home A Drinkin With Lovin on Your Mind One s on the Way Fist City and Coal Miner s Daughter The 1980 musical film Coal Miner s Daughter was based on her life Loretta LynnLynn in a 1965 publicity portraitBornLoretta Webb 1932 04 14 April 14 1932Butcher Hollow Kentucky U S DiedOctober 4 2022 2022 10 04 aged 90 Hurricane Mills Tennessee U S Resting placeHurricane Mills TennesseeOccupationSinger songwriterYears active1960 2022SpouseOliver Lynn m 1948 died 1996 wbr Children6 including Peggy Jean and Patsy EileenRelativesCrystal Gayle sister Jay Lee Webb brother Peggy Sue sister Musical careerGenresCountry honky tonk Americana gospelInstrument s Vocals guitarLabelsZero Decca MCA Columbia Third Man Audium Interscope LegacyWebsitelorettalynn wbr comLynn received many awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking role in country music including awards from both the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music as a duet partner and an individual artist She was nominated 18 times for a Grammy Award and won three times 1 As of 2022 update Lynn was the most awarded female country recording artist and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade the 1970s Lynn scored 24 No 1 hit singles and 11 number one albums She ended 57 years of touring on the road after she suffered a stroke in 2017 and broke her hip in 2018 2 Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Career 2 1 1960 1966 Early country success 2 2 1967 1980 Breakthrough success 2 2 1 Professional partnership with Conway Twitty 2 2 2 Tribute album for Patsy Cline other projects and honors 2 3 1980 1989 Movie and popularity 2 4 1990 2004 Return to country and second autobiography 2 5 2004 2022 Late career resurgence 3 Personal life 3 1 Children 3 2 Marriage 3 3 Loretta Lynn s Ranch 3 4 Politics 3 5 Health and death 4 Awards and achievements 5 Discography 6 See also 7 References 7 1 Bibliography 8 Further reading 9 External linksEarly life and career editLynn was born Loretta Webb in Butcher Hollow Kentucky on April 14 1932 3 4 She was the oldest daughter and second child born to Clara Marie Clary nee Ramey May 5 1912 November 24 1981 and Melvin Theodore Ted Webb June 6 1906 February 22 1959 Ted was a coal miner and subsistence farmer 5 The family claims Cherokee heritage on Lynn s mother s side but have not been officially recognized by that tribe 6 She was named after the film star Loretta Young 7 The other Webb children were Melvin Junior Webb December 4 1929 July 2 1993 8 9 Herman Webb September 3 1934 July 28 2018 8 9 Willie Jay Lee Webb February 12 1937 July 31 1996 10 9 Donald Ray Webb April 2 1941 October 13 2017 8 9 Peggy Sue Wright nee Webb born March 25 1943 9 11 Betty Ruth Hopkins nee Webb born January 5 1946 9 12 Crystal Gayle born Brenda Gail Webb January 9 1951 9 13 nbsp Childhood home of Loretta Lynn in KentuckyLoretta s father Ted died at the age of 52 from a stroke four years after relocating with her mother and younger siblings to Wabash Indiana He had also been battling black lung disease at the time of his death 14 Through her matriline Lynn was distant cousins with country singer Patty Loveless 15 On January 10 1948 15 year old Loretta Webb married Oliver Vanetta Doolittle Lynn August 27 1926 August 22 1996 better known as Doolittle Doo or Mooney 3 They had met only a month earlier 3 The Lynns left Kentucky and moved to the northwest Washington state logging community of Custer when Lynn was seven months pregnant with the first of their six children 5 The happiness and heartache of her early years of marriage would help to inspire Lynn s songwriting 16 In 1953 Doolittle bought her a 17 Harmony guitar equivalent to 186 in 2022 17 She taught herself to play the instrument and over the following three years she worked to improve her guitar playing With Doolittle s encouragement she started her own band Loretta and the Trailblazers with her brother Jay Lee playing lead guitar She often appeared at Bill s Tavern in Blaine Washington and the Delta Grange Hall in Custer Washington with the Pen Brothers band and the Westerneers She cut her first record I m a Honky Tonk Girl in February 1960 18 Career edit1960 1966 Early country success edit nbsp Lynn in 1962Lynn began singing in local clubs in the late 1950s She later formed her own band the Trailblazers which included her brother Jay Lee Webb Lynn won a wristwatch in a televised talent contest in Tacoma Washington hosted by Buck Owens Lynn s performance was seen by Canadian Norm Burley of Zero Records who co founded the record company after hearing Loretta sing 19 Zero Records president Canadian Don Grashey arranged a recording session in Hollywood where four of Lynn s compositions were recorded including I m A Honky Tonk Girl Whispering Sea Heartache Meet Mister Blues and New Rainbow Her first release featured Whispering Sea and I m a Honky Tonk Girl Lynn signed her first contract on February 2 1960 with Zero Her album was recorded at United Western Recorders in Hollywood engineered by Don Blake and produced by Grashey 20 21 Musicians who played on the songs were steel guitar player Speedy West 22 fiddler Harold Hensley guitarist Roy Lanham Al Williams on bass and Muddy Berry on drums 23 user generated source Lynn commented on the different sound of her first record Well there is a West Coast sound that is definitely not the same as the Nashville sound It was a shuffle with a West Coast beat 22 The Lynns toured the country to promote the release to country stations 19 while Grashey and Del Roy took the music to KFOX in Long Beach California 21 When the Lynns reached Nashville the song was a hit climbing to No 14 on Billboard s Country and Western chart and Lynn began cutting demo records for the Wilburn Brothers Publishing Company Through the Wilburns she secured a contract with Decca Records 19 The first Loretta Lynn Fan Club formed in November 1960 By the end of the year Billboard magazine listed Lynn as the No 4 Most Promising Country Female Artist 24 Lynn s relationship with the Wilburn Brothers and her appearances on the Grand Ole Opry beginning in 1960 25 helped Lynn become the No 1 female recording artist in country music Her contract with the Wilburn Brothers gave them the publishing rights to her material She unsuccessfully fought the Wilburn Brothers for 30 years to regain the publishing rights to her songs after ending her business relationship with them Lynn stopped writing music in the 1970s because of the contracts Lynn joined the Grand Ole Opry on September 25 1962 5 Lynn credited Patsy Cline as her mentor and best friend during her early years in music In 2010 when interviewed for Jimmy McDonough s biography of Tammy Wynette Tammy Wynette Tragic Country Queen Lynn said of having best friends in Patsy and Tammy during different times Best friends are like husbands You only need one at a time 26 Lynn released her first Decca single Success in 1962 and it went straight to No 6 beginning a string of top 10 singles that would run throughout the 1970s Lynn s music began to regularly hit the Top 10 after 1964 with songs such as Before I m Over You which peaked at No 4 followed by Wine Women and Song which peaked at No 3 In late 1964 she recorded a duet album with Ernest Tubb Their lead single Mr and Mrs Used to Be peaked within the Top 15 The pair recorded two more albums Singin Again 1967 and If We Put Our Heads Together 1969 In 1965 her solo career continued with three major hits Happy Birthday Blue Kentucky Girl later recorded and made a Top 10 hit in the 1970s by Emmylou Harris and The Home You re Tearing Down Lynn s label issued two albums that year Songs from My Heart and Blue Kentucky Girl 27 Lynn s first self penned song to crack the Top 10 1966 s Dear Uncle Sam was among the first recordings to recount the human costs of the Vietnam War 5 Her 1966 hit You Ain t Woman Enough To Take My Man made Lynn the first country female recording artist to write a No 1 hit 28 1967 1980 Breakthrough success edit In 1967 Lynn released the single Don t Come Home A Drinkin With Lovin on Your Mind 29 It was her first number one country hit 30 Lynn s next album Fist City was released in 1968 The title track became Lynn s second No 1 hit as a single earlier that year and the other single from the album What Kind of a Girl Do You Think I Am peaked within the top 10 In 1968 her next studio album Your Squaw Is on the Warpath spawned two Top 5 Country hits including the title track and You ve Just Stepped In From Stepping Out on Me In 1969 her next single Woman of the World Leave My World Alone was Lynn s third chart topper followed by a subsequent Top 10 To Make a Man Feel Like a Man Her song You Ain t Woman Enough To Take My Man was an instant hit and became one of Lynn s all time most popular Her career continued to be successful into the 1970s especially following the success of her autobiographical hit Coal Miner s Daughter which peaked at No 1 on the Billboard Country Chart in 1970 The song became her first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at No 83 She had a series of singles that charted low on the Hot 100 between 1970 and 1975 In 1978 she became a special guest star on The Muppet Show The song Coal Miner s Daughter later served as the impetus for her bestselling autobiography 1976 and the Oscar winning biopic both of which share the song s title 31 In 1973 Rated X peaked at No 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and was considered one of Lynn s most controversial hits The following year her next single Love Is the Foundation also became a No 1 country hit from her album of the same name The second and last single from that album Hey Loretta became a Top 5 hit Lynn continued to reach the Top 10 until the end of the decade including 1975 s The Pill one of the first songs to discuss birth control Many of Lynn s songs were autobiographical and as a songwriter Lynn felt no topic was off limits as long as it was relatable to women 32 In 1976 she released her autobiography Coal Miner s Daughter with the help of writer George Vecsey It became a bestseller with more than 8 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list 33 Professional partnership with Conway Twitty edit nbsp David Barnes Conway Twitty and Lynn in 1979In 1971 Lynn began a professional partnership with Conway Twitty As a duo Lynn and Twitty had five consecutive No 1 hits between 1971 and 1975 including After the Fire Is Gone 1971 which won them a Grammy award Lead Me On 1971 Louisiana Woman Mississippi Man 1973 As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone 1974 and Feelins 1974 For four consecutive years 1972 1975 Lynn and Twitty were named the Vocal Duo of the Year by the Country Music Association The Academy of Country Music named them the Best Vocal Duet in 1971 1974 1975 and 1976 The American Music awards selected them as the Favorite Country Duo in 1975 1976 and 1977 The fan voted Music City News readers voted them the No 1 duet every year between 1971 and 1981 inclusive In addition to their five No 1 singles they had seven other Top 10 hits between 1976 and 1981 34 As a solo artist Lynn continued her success in 1971 achieving her fifth No 1 solo hit One s on the Way written by poet and songwriter Shel Silverstein She also charted with I Wanna Be Free You re Lookin at Country and 1972 s Here I Am Again all released on separate albums The next year she became the first country star on the cover of Newsweek 35 In 1972 Lynn was the first woman to be nominated and win Entertainer of the Year at the CMA awards She won the Female Vocalist of the Year and Duo of the Year with Conway Twitty beating out George Jones and Tammy Wynette and Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton 36 Tribute album for Patsy Cline other projects and honors edit In 1977 Lynn recorded I Remember Patsy an album dedicated to her friend singer Patsy Cline who died in a plane crash in 1963 The album covered some of Cline s biggest hits The two singles Lynn released from the album She s Got You and Why Can t He Be You became hits She s Got You which went to No 1 by Cline in 1962 and went to No 1 again that year by Lynn Why Can t He Be You peaked at No 7 Lynn had her last No 1 hit in 1978 with Out of My Head and Back in My Bed 27 In 1979 Lynn had two Top 5 hits I Can t Feel You Anymore and I ve Got a Picture of Us on My Mind from separate albums 37 nbsp Lynn on tour in 1975Devoted to her fans Lynn told the editor of Salisbury Maryland s newspaper the reason she signed hundreds of autographs These people are my fans I ll stay here until the very last one wants my autograph Without these people I am nobody I love these people In 1979 she became the spokesperson for Procter amp Gamble s Crisco Oil Because of her dominant hold on the 1970s Lynn was named the Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music She is the only woman to have won this honor 38 Lynn became a part of the country music scene in Nashville in the 1960s In 1967 she had the first of 16 No 1 hits out of 70 charted songs as a solo artist and a duet partner 39 Her later hits include Don t Come Home A Drinkin With Lovin on Your Mind You Ain t Woman Enough To Take My Man Fist City and Coal Miner s Daughter 40 Lynn focused on women s issues with themes about philandering husbands and persistent mistresses Her music was inspired by issues she faced in her marriage She increased the boundaries in the conservative genre of country music by singing about birth control The Pill repeated childbirth One s on the Way double standards for men and women Rated X and being widowed by the draft during the Vietnam War Dear Uncle Sam 41 Country music radio stations often refused to play her music and in a 1987 interview she said eight of her songs had been banned 42 Her bestselling 1976 autobiography Coal Miner s Daughter was made into an Academy Award winning film with the same title in 1980 starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones Spacek won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Lynn Lynn s album Van Lear Rose released in 2004 was produced by the alternative rock musician Jack White Lynn and White were nominated for five Grammys and won two 43 44 Lynn received numerous awards in country and American music She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983 the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008 She was honored in 2010 at the Country Music Awards She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013 45 Lynn was a member of the Grand Ole Opry since joining on September 25 1962 Her debut appearance on the Grand Ole Opry was on October 15 1960 Lynn recorded 70 albums including 54 studio albums 15 compilation albums and a tribute album 46 unreliable source 47 1980 1989 Movie and popularity edit On March 5 1980 the film Coal Miner s Daughter debuted in Nashville and soon became the No 1 box office hit in the United States The film starred Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones as her husband Doolittle Mooney Lynn The film received seven Academy Award nominations winning the Best Actress Oscar for Spacek a gold album for the soundtrack album a Grammy nomination for Spacek Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music awards and several Golden Globe awards The 1980s featured more hits including Pregnant Again Naked in the Rain and Somebody Led Me Away 35 Lynn s last Top 10 record as a soloist was 1982 s I Lie but her releases continued to chart until the end of the decade 27 One of her last solo releases was Heart Don t Do This to Me 1985 which reached No 19 her last Top 20 hit Her 1985 album Just a Woman spawned a Top 40 hit In 1987 Lynn lent her voice to a song on k d lang s album Shadowland with country stars Kitty Wells and Brenda Lee Honky Tonk Angels Medley The album was certified gold and was Grammy nominated for the four women Lynn s 1988 album Who Was That Stranger would be her last solo album for MCA which she parted ways with in 1989 48 She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 49 1990 2004 Return to country and second autobiography edit Lynn returned to the public eye in 1993 with a hit album the trio album Honky Tonk Angels recorded with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette 50 The album peaked at No 6 on the Billboard Country charts and No 42 on the Billboard Pop charts and charted a single with Silver Threads and Golden Needles The album sold more than 800 000 copies and was certified gold in the United States and Canada The trio was nominated for Grammy and Country Music Association awards Lynn released a three CD boxed set chronicling her career on MCA Records In 1995 she taped a seven week series on the Nashville Network TNN Loretta Lynn amp Friends 51 In 1995 Loretta was presented with the Pioneer Award at the 30th Academy of Country Music Awards 52 In 1996 Lynn s husband Oliver Vanetta Doolittle Lynn died five days short of his 70th birthday In 2000 Lynn released her first album in several years Still Country in which she included I Can t Hear the Music a tribute song to her late husband She released her first new single in more than 10 years from the album Country in My Genes The single charted on the Billboard Country singles chart and made Lynn the first woman in country music to chart singles in five decades In 2002 Lynn published her second autobiography Still Woman Enough and it became her second New York Times Best Seller peaking in the top 10 In 2004 she published a cookbook You re Cookin It Country 53 2004 2022 Late career resurgence edit nbsp Lynn performing at South by Southwest in 2016In 2004 Lynn released Van Lear Rose the second album on which Lynn either wrote or co wrote every song Produced by Jack White of The White Stripes the album featured guitar and backup vocals by White The collaboration garnered Lynn high praise from the mainstream and alternative rock music press such as Spin and Blender 54 Rolling Stone voted it the second best album of 2004 and it won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album of the Year 55 Late in 2010 Sony Music released a new compilation album Coal Miner s Daughter A Tribute to Loretta Lynn featuring stars like Reba McEntire Faith Hill Paramore and Carrie Underwood performing Lynn s classic hits spanning 50 years The album produced a Top 10 hit music video on Great American Country of the single Coal Miner s Daughter featuring Lynn Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow The track cracked the Billboard singles chart making Lynn the only female country artist to chart in six decades Lynn s concerts during this period included performances at the Nelsonville Music Festival in Nelsonville Ohio in May 2010 56 and at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 11 2011 57 In 2012 Lynn published her third autobiography Honky Tonk Girl My Life in Lyrics 58 She also contributed Take Your Gun and Go John to Divided amp United Songs of the Civil War released on November 5 2013 59 In November 2015 Lynn announced the completion of a new album Full Circle Released in March 2016 the album debuted at No 19 on the Billboard Hot 200 60 and went on to become Lynn s 40th album to make the Top 10 on Billboard s best selling country chart It featured a combination of new songs and classics and duets with Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson 61 Lynn s holiday album White Christmas Blue was released in October 2016 62 In December of the same year Full Circle was nominated for Country Album of the Year in the 59th Annual Grammy Awards 63 Following Full Circle the album Wouldn t It Be Great was released by Legacy Recordings in September 2018 after being delayed by health issues which had caused Lynn to cancel all of her scheduled tour dates in 2017 64 65 Lynn was named Artist of a Lifetime by CMT in 2018 66 On October 19 2019 Lifetime aired the movie Patsy amp Loretta which highlighted the friendship of Lynn and Patsy Cline 67 On March 19 2021 Lynn released her 50th studio album Still Woman Enough the fourth album of her deal with Legacy Recordings Recorded in sessions at Cash Cabin in Tennessee it features Carrie Underwood and Reba McEntire on the title track alongside duets with Tanya Tucker and Margo Price on re recordings of You Ain t Woman Enough and One s on the Way respectively 68 Personal life editChildren edit Loretta and her husband had six children together Their eldest daughter Betty Sue was born on November 26 1948 and died of complications associated with emphysema on July 29 2013 69 70 Second child and eldest son Jack Benny Lynn born December 7 1949 was found dead by drowning on July 24 1984 after going missing while horse riding on his mother s Hurricane Mills ranch 71 72 Their third and fourth children are Ernest Ray Lynn born May 27 1951 and Clara Marie Cissie Lynn born less than a year later on April 7 1952 73 Their youngest children twin daughters Peggy Jean and Patsy Eileen were born on August 6 1964 they are named after Lynn s sister Peggy Sue Wright and her friend Patsy Cline 73 Marriage edit Lynn was married to Oliver Vanetta Doolittle Lynn 1926 1996 almost 50 years until her husband died at age 69 In her 2002 autobiography Still Woman Enough and in an interview with CBS News the same year she recounted how her husband cheated on her regularly and once left her while she was giving birth 32 Lynn and her husband fought frequently but she said that he never hit me one time that I didn t hit him back twice Loretta said that her marriage was one of the hardest love stories 74 page needed In one of her autobiographies she recalled I married Doo when I wasn t but a child and he was my life from that day on But as important as my youth and upbringing was there s something else that made me stick to Doo He thought I was something special more special than anyone else in the world and never let me forget it That belief would be hard to shove out the door Doo was my security my safety net And just remember I m explainin not excusin Doo was a good man and a hard worker But he was an alcoholic and it affected our marriage all the way through 75 Loretta Lynn s Ranch edit Lynn owned a ranch in Hurricane Mills Tennessee known as Loretta Lynn s Ranch Billed as the seventh largest attraction in Tennessee 76 it features a recording studio museums lodging restaurants and western stores Traditionally three holiday concerts are hosted annually at the ranch Memorial Day Weekend Fourth of July Weekend and Labor Day Weekend 77 78 Since 1982 the ranch has hosted Loretta Lynn s Amateur Championship motocross race the largest amateur motocross race of its kind The ranch also hosts GNCC Racing events The centerpiece of the ranch is its large plantation home which Lynn once resided in with her husband and children She had not lived in the antebellum mansion in more than 30 years prior to her death Lynn regularly greeted fans who were touring the house A replica of the cabin in which Lynn grew up in Butcher Hollow is one of its main features 77 79 Politics edit At the height of her popularity some of Lynn s songs were banned from radio airplay including Rated X about the double standards divorced women face Wings Upon Your Horns about the loss of teenage virginity and The Pill about a wife and mother becoming liberated by the birth control pill Her song Dear Uncle Sam released in 1966 during the Vietnam War describes a wife s anguish at the loss of a husband to war It was included in her live performances during the Iraq War 19 Although Lynn was outspoken about her views on controversial social and political subjects she saw herself as apolitical writing in her 1976 autobiography that I don t like to talk too much about things where you re going to get one side or the other unhappy My music has no politics 80 153 When asked about her position on same sex marriage by USA Today in November 2010 she replied I m still an old Bible girl God said you need to be a woman and man but everybody to their own 81 She endorsed 82 and campaigned 83 for George H W Bush in the presidential election in 1988 84 While a recognized advocate for ordinary women Lynn often criticized upper class feminism for ignoring the needs and concerns of working class women 5 She rejected being labeled a feminist 85 and wrote in her memoir I m not a big fan of women s liberation but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they re due 80 56 In 1971 Lynn performed at the White House at the invitation of President Richard Nixon She returned there to perform during the administrations of Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George H W Bush and George W Bush 86 In 2002 s Still Woman Enough she discussed her longtime friendship and support for Jimmy Carter 87 In 2016 Lynn expressed support for Donald Trump s presidential campaign stumping for him at the end of each of her shows She stated I just think he s the only one who s going to turn this country around 88 Lynn allowed PETA to use her song I Wanna Be Free in a public service campaign to discourage the chaining of dogs outdoors in the cold 89 90 Health and death edit Over the years Lynn suffered from various health concerns including pneumonia on multiple occasions and a broken arm after a fall at home 91 92 In May 2017 Lynn had a stroke at her home in Hurricane Mills She was taken to a Nashville hospital and as a result had to cancel all of her upcoming tour dates The release of her album Wouldn t It Be Great was delayed until 2018 On January 1 2018 Lynn fell and broke her hip 93 94 Lynn died in her sleep at her home in Hurricane Mills on October 4 2022 at the age of 90 No cause of death was immediately given 95 10 96 She was buried three days later on her Hurricane Mills ranch beside her husband Doolittle 97 Awards and achievements editMain article List of awards received by Loretta Lynn Lynn wrote more than 160 songs and released 60 albums She had 10 No 1 albums and 16 No 1 singles on the country charts Lynn won three Grammy Awards seven American Music Awards eight Broadcast Music Incorporated awards 13 Academy of Country Music eight Country Music Association and 26 fan voted Music City News awards Lynn remains the most awarded woman in country music history 98 99 She was the first woman in country music to receive a certified gold album for 1967 s Don t Come Home a Drinkin With Lovin on Your Mind 100 In 1972 Lynn was the first woman named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association In 1980 she was the only woman to be named Artist of the Decade for the 1970s by the Academy of Country Music Lynn was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 25 and the Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1999 101 She was also the recipient of Kennedy Center Honors an award given the President of the United States in 2003 Lynn is ranked 65th on VH1 s 100 Greatest Women of Rock amp Roll 102 and was the first female country artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1977 103 In 1994 she received the country music pioneer award from the Academy of Country Music 104 In 2001 Coal Miner s Daughter was named among NPR s 100 Most Significant Songs of the 20th Century In 2002 Lynn had the highest ranking No 3 for any living female in CMT television s special of the 40 Greatest Women of Country Music 105 A BMI affiliate for more than 45 years Lynn was honored as a BMI Icon at the BMI Country Awards on November 4 2004 106 In March 2007 Lynn was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music during her performance at the Grand Ole Opry 107 Lynn was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City in 2008 She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for her 50 years in country music in 2010 108 Lynn was honored for 50 years in country music at the 44th Annual Country Music Awards on November 10 2010 109 That same year Lynn was presented with a rose named in her honor 110 Sony Music released a tribute CD to Lynn titled Coal Miner s Daughter A Tribute to Loretta Lynn in November 2010 The CD features Kid Rock Reba McEntire Sheryl Crow Miranda Lambert Alan Jackson Gretchen Wilson The White Stripes Martina McBride Paramore Steve Earle and Faith Hill In 2011 Lynn was nominated for an Academy of Country Music CMT Video and Country Music Association awards for Vocal Event of the Year with Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow for Coal Miner s Daughter released as a video and single from the CD 5 Lynn marked her 50th anniversary as a Grand Ole Opry member on September 25 2012 111 and her 60th anniversary in 2022 112 Lynn was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2013 113 114 Miranda Lambert presented Lynn with the Crystal Milestone Award from the Academy of Country Music 115 Lynn also received the 2015 Billboard Legacy Award for Women in Music 116 In 2016 she was the subject of an American Masters profile documentary Loretta Lynn Still a Mountain Girl on PBS 117 Lynn was named Artist of a Lifetime in 2018 by CMT 66 In 2020 a statue of Loretta Lynn was unveiled on the Ryman s Icon Walk 118 In 2022 Loretta Lynn was inducted into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame In 2023 Rolling Stone ranked Lynn at number 132 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time 119 Discography editMain article Loretta Lynn albums discography See also Loretta Lynn singles discography and Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn discography Studio albums Loretta Lynn Sings 1963 Before I m Over You 1964 Songs from My Heart 1965 Blue Kentucky Girl 1965 Mr and Mrs Used to Be with Ernest Tubb 1965 Hymns 1965 I Like Em Country 1966 You Ain t Woman Enough 1966 Country Christmas 1966 Don t Come Home a Drinkin With Lovin on Your Mind 1967 Singin Again with Ernest Tubb 1967 Singin with Feelin 1967 Who Says God Is Dead 1968 Fist City 1968 Your Squaw Is on the Warpath 1969 If We Put Our Heads Together with Ernest Tubb 1969 Woman of the World To Make a Man 1969 Here s Loretta Singing Wings Upon Your Horns 1970 Coal Miner s Daughter 1971 We Only Make Believe with Conway Twitty 1971 I Wanna Be Free 1971 You re Lookin at Country 1971 Lead Me On with Conway Twitty 1972 One s on the Way 1972 God Bless America Again 1972 Here I Am Again 1972 Entertainer of the Year 1973 Louisiana Woman Mississippi Man with Conway Twitty 1973 Love Is the Foundation 1973 Country Partners with Conway Twitty 1974 They Don t Make Em Like My Daddy 1974 Back to the Country 1975 Feelins with Conway Twitty 1975 Home 1975 When the Tingle Becomes a Chill 1976 United Talent with Conway Twitty 1976 Somebody Somewhere 1976 I Remember Patsy 1977 Dynamic Duo with Conway Twitty 1977 Out of My Head and Back in My Bed 1978 Honky Tonk Heroes with Conway Twitty 1978 We ve Come a Long Way Baby 1979 Diamond Duet with Conway Twitty 1979 Loretta 1980 Lookin Good 1980 Two s a Party with Conway Twitty 1981 I Lie 1982 Making Love from Memory 1982 Lyin Cheatin Woman Chasin Honky Tonkin Whiskey Drinkin You 1983 Just a Woman 1985 Who Was That Stranger 1988 Honky Tonk Angels with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette 1993 Making More Memories 1994 All Time Gospel Favorites 1997 Still Country 2000 Van Lear Rose 2004 Full Circle 2016 White Christmas Blue 2016 Wouldn t It Be Great 2018 Still Woman Enough 2021 See also editList of country musiciansReferences edit Loretta Lynn National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences November 23 2020 Archived from the original on November 4 2020 Retrieved October 26 2020 Loretta Lynn Biography Biography com January 9 2018 a b c AP Country singer Loretta Lynn married at 15 not 13 USA Today May 18 2012 Archived from the original on August 31 2013 Retrieved April 19 2020 Loretta Lynn Encyclopaedia Britannica Archived from the original on March 10 2018 Retrieved November 12 2020 Although she claimed 1935 as her birth year various official documents indicate that she was born in 1932 a b c d e f WELCOME 2017 LorettaLynn com Archived from the original on March 21 2006 Retrieved February 11 2019 Whiteley Jenni October 6 2017 Country music star Crystal Gayle coming to Fort Hall Oct 13 Associated Press News Retrieved January 2 2020 About the Artist Biography of Loretta Lynn Archived December 8 2006 at the Wayback Machine John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Retrieved February 4 2007 a b c Whitson Waylon Begley Justin October 5 2022 Johnson County native and legend Loretta Lynn passes at 90 The Paintsville Herald a b c d e f g Fox Courtney October 4 2022 Loretta Lynn s Siblings Then and Now Wide Open Country Retrieved October 11 2022 a b McArdle Terence October 4 2022 Loretta Lynn ever a Coal Miner s Daughter dies at 90 The Washington Post Retrieved October 11 2022 Brennan Sandra 2015 Peggy Sue Biography Songs amp Albums AllMusic Archived from the original on May 13 2015 Brow Jason October 4 2022 Loretta Lynn s Siblings Everything To Know About Country Legend s 7 Brothers amp Sisters hollywoodlife com Friskics Warren Bill October 4 2022 Loretta Lynn Country Music Star and Symbol of Rural Resilience Dies at 90 The New York Times Trott Bill October 5 2022 Country music star Loretta Lynn dies at age 90 Reuters 6 Oct 1989 102 Tampa Bay Times October 6 1989 Retrieved October 5 2022 via Newspapers com Profile Archived October 20 2017 at the Wayback Machine lubbockonline com Retrieved July 18 2015 Rhodes Don June 8 2011 Lynn s road to stardom started with 17 guitar The Augusta Chronicle Archived from the original on June 15 2011 Retrieved January 4 2016 Loretta Lynn Biography Billboard December 3 2015 Archived from the original on July 23 2018 Retrieved September 23 2016 a b c d Van Lear Rose Archived February 6 2007 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved February 4 2007 KochDistribution com kochdistribution com Archived from the original on September 27 2007 a b Honky Tonk Make Believe Don Grashy Co Joseph Mauro MY RAMBLING HEART Washington DC 1995 p 45 a b Loretta Lynn 2012 Honky Tonk Girl My Life in Lyrics New York Knopf pp 10 11 ISBN 978 0 307 59489 1 PragueFrank s Country Music Discographies Archived November 6 2013 at the Wayback Machine countrydiscography blogspot com May 2011 Most Promising Female Artists of C amp W Jockeys Billboard October 31 1960 p 26 a b Loretta Lynn Archived April 23 2016 at the Wayback Machine Country Music Hall of Fame Retrieved February 4 2007 Loretta Lynn Country superstar whose style courage and panache have made her a legend plays the Hard Rock Rocksino on Thursday Commentary June 13 2014 Archived from the original on October 4 2022 Retrieved October 4 2022 a b c Whitburn Joel 2008 Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008 Record Research Inc ISBN 978 0 89820 177 2 Loretta Lynn Profile Archived November 5 2007 at the Wayback Machine Country Music Television website Retrieved May 4 2014 Wolff Kurt 2000 In Country Music The Rough Guide Orla Duane ed London Rough Guides Ltd p 311 Whitburn Joel 2004 The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits 1944 2006 Second edition Record Research p 209 Will the Circle Be Unbroken Country Music In America Paul Kingsbury amp Alanna Nash eds London Rough Guides Ltd 2006 p 251 a b Legends Loretta Lynn Tells All CBS News December 27 2002 Archived from the original on November 2 2013 Retrieved February 4 2007 Her autobiography recounts how once in a drunken rage he smashed many jars full of vegetables she had painstakingly canned Walters Ray May 8 1977 PAPERBACK TALK The New York Times Country Music Music News New Songs Videos Music Shows and Playlists from CMT Country Music Television Archived from the original on February 4 2012 Retrieved February 11 2019 a b Loretta Lynn biography Countrypolitan com Retrieved April 18 2008 Archived February 6 2008 at the Wayback Machine CMA Awards Archive 1972 Country Music Association Awards October 9 2008 Archived from the original on September 24 2016 Retrieved September 23 2016 Whitburn Joel 2004 The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits 1944 2006 Second edition Record Research Grein Paul October 4 2022 The Many Times Loretta Lynn Made Awards Show History Billboard Country Music Music News New Songs Videos Music Shows and Playlists from CMT Country Music Television Retrieved February 11 2019 Coal Miner s Daughter p 73 Thanki Juli 20 Most Controversial Songs by Women Engine 145 Archived from the original on April 7 2014 Retrieved April 6 2014 Varga George October 4 2022 Loretta Lynn dead at 90 was unapologetic in our 1987 interview I ve had eight of my songs banned The San Diego Union Tribune Retrieved October 6 2022 2004 GRAMMY WINNERS 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards The Recording Academy January 15 2013 Retrieved October 11 2022 Loretta Lynn Love Is The Foundation Archived from the original on November 16 2018 Retrieved October 30 2018 Branigin William November 20 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