Loretta Lynn

The country singer brought unparalleled candor about the domestic realities of working-class women to country songwriting over the course of her 60-year ...

Country singer and songwriter who was the defiant voice of the ordinary woman over a career that spanned six decades.

Loretta Lynn, who became one of American country music's biggest stars and a leading feminist in the genre, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, ...

Lynn, whose sister Crystal Gayle also became a country star, was the first female to win the Country Music Association's (CMA) Entertainer of the Year honour in 1972. Much of the movie was shot at Lynn's 600-hectare ranch 120km west of Nashville where she maintained a Southern mansion. "I was just the first one to stand up there and say what I thought, what life was about. "I was devastated," she said. In 'Rated X' she sang about the inequities of man-woman relationships and her song 'The Pill' celebrated the sexual freedom that birth control gave women. "One of the greatest there ever will be.

In the male-dominated world of country music in the 1960s and 1970s, Lynn built a reputation as a hillbilly feminist who was bold enough and talented enough ...

"I was lost without him. She won seven other CMA awards, was voted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 and won 12 Academy of Country Music Awards. The rest were afraid to." "I wasn't the first woman in country music," she told Esquire magazine in 2007. In Rated X she sang about the inequities of man-woman relationships and her song The Pill celebrated the sexual freedom that birth control gave women. In the male-dominated world of country music in the 1960s and 1970s, Lynn built a reputation as a hillbilly feminist who was bold enough and talented enough to write her own songs.

Kentucky-born singer went from poverty and teenage marriage to becoming one of the most celebrated stars of US country.

Loretta Lynn changed country music with "The Pill" in 1975. In a post-Roe America, its legacy is complicated.

Obviously, the shape of Lynn’s legacy will eventually be decided by her music more than her political endorsements, and that’s good, because her songs make the chronic problems in today’s country music industry feel so clear. [Coal Miner’s Daughter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoKThsOCjuU)” was Lynn’s hallmark, “The Pill” is her triumph, and its legacy in a post-Roe America has become more complicated than previously imaginable. In 1975, “The Pill” was a controversial hit about hard-won freedoms, Lynn’s playful twang conveying its liberated mood with levity and bounce.

The singer-songwriter was nominated for 18 Grammys—she won three—and countless Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music awards over the course of ...

In 1980, the film Coal Miner’s Daughter—which starred Sissy Spacek as Lynn and Tommy Lee Jones as Doolittle—became a box-office hit, familiarizing the world with Lynn’s work and life story. Lynn was, indeed, a coal miner’s daughter, growing up as one of eight children in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, and mothering her first child when she was only 16. The singer-songwriter was nominated for 18 Grammys—she won three—and countless Country Music Association Awards and Academy of Country Music Awards over the course of her six-decade career.

In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lynn's family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. “Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, ...

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.

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...

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

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 ...

“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, ...

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.

The 1976 book (and its 1980 film adaptation) helped the world see the country star's remarkable resilience. The writer who worked by her side remembers his ...

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 ...

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