NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90.
In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lynn’s family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.
Lynn already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background.
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I grew up listening to her. She was my dad's favorite country singer, so listening to her was an every weekend thing when I was a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ellHQtewKaE
ReplyDeleteSaw her and Conway at the Lorain County Fair when I was a kid. She was a tiny little thing. Sad to hear. 90 is a good long life, though! Eod1sg Ret
ReplyDeleteBummer.
ReplyDeleteShe has also been a huge patron for amateur motocross, allowing one of the premier amateur nationals take place on her property for years. ATV nationals as well. Lovely Lady, will be missed.
ReplyDeleteRest in Peace. You brought so much happiness to the world...Mahalo
ReplyDeleteWe are rapidly losing all the good entertainers and I am not referring to only their talent.
ReplyDeleteAs we devolve into a marxist clown world, I see this as just another part of America dying, just like everything else. Sad is sad, Im past that, I dont have any f's to give anymore.
ReplyDeleteThat was a heck of a good run. Someday, we'll be able to hear her music out there in the cosmos. She made a happier and prettier universe.
ReplyDelete--nines
She got her first 'jab' mid-January 2021.
ReplyDeleteAnd there you go. She's lucky she survived the jab that long.
DeleteLoretta Lynn WAS Country music, far as I'm concerned. THE star of the Grand Old Opry.
Rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteI was watching a sort of recap of her life on a local news channel, and they were playing a clip of her talking about how she stayed with her husband who beat the living shit out of her every damn day "because I loved him" and just had to shake my head. The things people go through to produce real art.
Anyway 90 years is a good run.