Q 18:47 Loretta Lynn's relationship with music comes 'Full Circle' Shad talks to Loretta Lynn, 'the iconic queen of no-BS country music,' about her new album Full Circle and her life-long relationship with music.Ĭoal Miner's Daughter, also the title of her 1976 book, was made into a 1980 movie of the same name. Her biggest hits came in the 1960s and '70s, including Coal Miner's Daughter, You Ain't Woman Enough, The Pill, Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind), Rated X and You're Looking at Country. She was known for appearing in wide, floor-length gowns with elaborate embroidery or rhinestones, many created by her longtime personal assistant and designer Tim Cobb. The Country Music Hall of Famer 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 already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background.Īs a songwriter, she crafted a persona of a defiantly tough woman, a contrast to the stereotypical image of most female country singers. In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lynn's family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn.

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.

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