Posted on 10/04/2022 8:31:59 AM PDT by fightin kentuckian
Country music legend Loretta Lynn has died at the age of 90.
The 4-time Grammy winner — whose glittering career spanned six decades — passed away Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.
Her family confirmed the news in a statement provided to the Associated Press, but did not disclose a cause of death.
Lynn — who was raised by a coal miner in rural Kentucky — became a worldwide sensation with her 1971 track “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”
However, the singer-songwriter used her poverty-stricken Appalachian childhood as the basis for dozens of her other hit songs.
The Country Music Hall of Famer also wrote fearlessly about sex and love, cheating husbands, divorce and birth control — and sometimes got in trouble with radio programmers for material from which even rock performers once shied away.
Lynn’s other hits included “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” and “You’re Looking at Country.”
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God blessed Loretta Lynn.
Met here under a motel awning in a Pasadena Texas one rainy evening. I was waiting on a cab to take me to dinner and she walked up and stood right beside me. I’m not one to “bother” celebs so I just kept looking for my cab. Then this little voice said, “hey, ain’t ya gonna say hello?” She knew I was trying not to bother her. I said “hello” and we had a little conversation. Her limo pulled up and I said “well here’s my ride” and she said, “don’t think so, yours is behind this one!” She was performing at Gilly’s at the time. What a thrill to actually meet the little lady.
I remember that being a pretty decent movie that came out about 40 or so years ago. I think Spacek got best actress or some such award out of that film.
Thank you for sharing that very nice story. Even though I grew up a few miles from Butcher Holler I regret that I never met Loretta.
Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette lived each other’s songs.
Loretta made a career out of jilted woman “Leaving You” songs yet stayed married to a life-long filanderer until his passing after 48 years of wedded bliss.
Tammy’s biggest hit was “Stand By Your Man” but she had five husbands, two of whom she divorced and two of whom she got annulments from.
Prayers to your family Loretta and thank you for your tunes.
That is cool. What a nice memory.
R.I.P., Loretta Lynn.
What a treasure the Coal Miner’s Dotter has been to America and the world.
Condolences to her family and friends.
And what I remember about that movie is that Sissy did her own singing. It was not dubbed or lip-synched or anything.
I never knew what the big deal was about being a coal miner’s daughter.
“but did not disclose a cause of death.”
The writer is making a joke, right?
Good woman. I knew her son and DIL years ago.
RIP.
THE Queen of Country Music.
RIP.
She did an album with Conway Twitty. I love their version of “It’s Only Make Believe” and I play it on the jukebox at the local bar.
We’ve lost another treasure.
Condolences to Loretta’s loved ones.
Wow.....Tammy could have been a Republican Presidential candidate.
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