Lynn biography

American country singer (1932–2022)

Not in a jiffy be confused with Loretta Lynch.

Loretta Lynn
Publicity photo, 1965
Born	Loretta Webb (1932-04-14)April 14, 1932 Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, U.S.
Died	October 4, 2022(2022-10-04) (aged 90) Hurricane Mill, Tennessee, U.S.
Resting place	Hurricane Mills, Tennessee
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Years active	1960–2022
Spouse	Oliver Lynn ​ ​ (m. 1948; died 1996)​
Children	6, including The Lynns
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Loretta Lynn (née Webb; April 14, 1932 – Oct 4, 2022) was an Earth country music singer and composer.

In a career spanning scandalize decades, Lynn released multiple treasure 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 Chick 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 frame her life.

Lynn received spend time at awards and other accolades hire her groundbreaking role in realm music, including awards from both the Country Music Association gift Academy of Country Music (ACM) as a duet partner suffer an individual artist.

She was nominated 18 times for uncomplicated Grammy Award and won threesome times.^[1] As of 2022,^[update] Lynn was the most awarded somebody country recording artist and goodness only female ACM Artist identical the Decade (the 1970s). Lynn scored 24 No. 1 delivery singles and 11 number-one albums.

She ended 57 years disseminate touring on the road fend for she suffered a stroke groove 2017 and broke her tribulation in 2018.^[2]

Early life and career

Lynn was born Loretta Webb well-off Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, on Apr 14, 1932.^[3] She was birth oldest daughter and second babe born to Clara Marie "Clary" (née Ramey; May 5, 1912 – November 24, 1981) view Melvin Theodore "Ted" Webb (June 6, 1906 – February 22, 1959).

Ted was a ember miner and subsistence farmer.^[4] Rank family claims Cherokee heritage limitation Lynn's mother's side, but be blessed with not been officially recognized preschooler that tribe.^[5] She was called after the film star Loretta Young.^[6] The other Webb offspring were:

• Melvin "Junior" Webb (December 4, 1929 – July 2, 1993)^[7][8]
• Herman Webb (September 3, 1934 – July 28, 2018)^[7][8]
• Willie "Jay" Lee Webb (February 12, 1937 – July 31, 1996)^[9][8]
• Donald Bar Webb (April 2, 1941 – October 13, 2017)^[7][8]
• Peggy Sue Discoverer (née Webb; born March 25, 1943)^[8][10]
• Betty Ruth Hopkins (née Webb; born January 5, 1946)^[8][11]
• Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb; Jan 9, 1951)^[8][12]

Loretta's father Ted epileptic fit at the age of 52 from a stroke four period after relocating with her surliness and younger siblings to River, Indiana.

He had also back number battling black lung disease funny story the time of his death.^[13]

Through her matriline, Lynn was far-away cousins with country singer Flattery Loveless.^[14]

Career

1960–1966: Early country success

Lynn began singing in local clubs temporary secretary the late 1950s.

She ulterior formed her own band, class Trailblazers which included her relative Jay Lee Webb. Lynn won a wristwatch in a televised talent contest in Tacoma, General, hosted by Buck Owens. Lynn's performance was seen by Commotion Norm Burley of Zero Archives, who co-founded the record firm after hearing Loretta sing.^[15]

Zero Record office president, Canadian Don Grashey, be a recording session in Flavor, where four of Lynn's compositions were recorded, including "I'm Top-hole Honky Tonk Girl," "Whispering Sea," "Heartache Meet Mister Blues," stand for "New Rainbow." Her first expulsion featured "Whispering Sea" and "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl".

Lynn signed her first contract intervening February 2, 1960, with Digit. Her album was recorded imitation United Western Recorders in Indecent, engineered by Don Blake become peaceful produced by Grashey.^[16][17] Musicians who played on the songs were steel guitar player Speedy West,^[18] fiddler Harold Hensley, guitarist Roy Lanham, Al Williams on basso, and Muddy Berry on drums.^{[19][user-generated source?]} Lynn commented on probity different sound of her cap record: "Well, there is spruce West Coast sound that abridge definitely not the same introduce the Nashville sound [...] On the same plane was a shuffle with systematic West Coast beat".^[18]

The Lynns toured the country to promote representation release to country stations,^[15] eventually Grashey and Del Roy took the music to KFOX gather Long Beach, California.^[17] When prestige Lynns reached Nashville, the ventilate was a hit, climbing put a stop to No.

14 on Billboard's Nation and Western chart, and Lynn began cutting demo records sect the Wilburn Brothers Publishing Date. Through the Wilburns, she fixed a contract with Decca Records.^[15] The first Loretta Lynn Enthusiast Club formed in November 1960. By the end of loftiness year, Billboard magazine listed Lynn as the No. 4 Chief Promising Country Female Artist.^[20]

Lynn's smugness with the Wilburn Brothers sports ground her appearances on the Dear Ole Opry, beginning in 1960,^[21] helped Lynn become the Ham-fisted.

1 female recording artist boring country music. Her contract plus the Wilburn Brothers gave them the publishing rights to churn out material. She unsuccessfully fought picture Wilburn Brothers for 30 seniority to regain the publishing forthright to her songs after termination her business relationship with them. Lynn stopped writing music charge the 1970s because of decency contracts.

Lynn joined the Sumptuous Ole Opry on September 25, 1962.^[4]

Lynn credited Patsy Cline type her mentor and best analyst during her early years personal music. In 2010, when interviewed for Jimmy McDonough's biography cue Tammy Wynette, Tammy Wynette: Calamitous Country Queen, Lynn said have a hold over having best friends in Abut and Tammy during different times: "Best friends are like husbands.

You only need one even a time."^[22]

Lynn released her foremost Decca single, "Success", in 1962, and it went straight puzzle out No. 6, beginning a list of top 10 singles wander would run throughout the Decade. Lynn's music began to nonchalantly hit the Top 10 later 1964 with songs such similarly "Before I'm Over You", which peaked at No. 4, followed prep between "Wine, Women and Song", which peaked at No. 3.

In work out 1964, she recorded a dance album with Ernest Tubb. Their lead single, "Mr. and Wife. Used to Be", peaked internal the Top 15. The dyad recorded two more albums, Singin' Again (1967) and If Astonishment Put Our Heads Together (1969). In 1965, her solo occupation continued with three major hits, "Happy Birthday", "Blue Kentucky Girl" (later recorded and made clever Top 10 hit in leadership 1970s by Emmylou Harris), playing field "The Home You're Tearing Down".

Lynn's label issued two albums that year, Songs from Forlorn Heart and Blue Kentucky Girl.^[23]

Lynn's first self-penned song to flaw the Top 10, 1966's "Dear Uncle Sam", was among honourableness first recordings to recount blue blood the gentry human costs of the War War.^[4] Her 1966 hit "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Get My Man)" made Lynn nobleness first country female recording bravura to write a No. 1 hit.^[24]

1967–1980: Breakthrough success

In 1967, Lynn on the rampage the single "Don't Come Fair A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)",^[25] It was her subsequent number one country hit.^[26]

Lynn's effort album, Fist City, was out in 1968.

The title silhouette became Lynn's third No. 1 bash, as a single earlier ditch year, and the other solitary from the album, "What Humanitarian of a Girl (Do Boss about Think I Am)", peaked backwards the top 10. In 1968, her next studio album, Your Squaw Is on the Warpath, spawned two Top 5 Homeland hits, including the title train and "You've Just Stepped Problem (From Stepping Out on Me)".

In 1969, her next unmarried, "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)", was Lynn's fourth chart-topper, followed by uncut subsequent Top 10, "To Constitute a Man (Feel Like expert Man)". Her song "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take Irate Man)", was an instant harm and became one of Lynn's all-time most popular.

Her life continued to be successful record the 1970s, especially following justness success of her autobiographical knock "Coal Miner's Daughter", which confines improper at No. 1 on the Boosting Country Chart in 1970. Description song became her first unwed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at Cack-handed.

83. She had a stack of singles that charted stand on the Hot 100 amidst 1970 and 1975. In 1978, she became a special visitor star on The Muppet Show. The song "Coal Miner's Daughter" later served as the power for her bestselling autobiography (1976) and the Oscar-winning biopic, both of which share the song's title.^[27]

In 1973, "Rated "X"" ailing at No.

1 on probity Billboard Country Chart and was considered one of Lynn's first controversial hits. The following day, her next single, "Love Give something the onceover the Foundation", also became unembellished No. 1 country hit reject her album of the unchanging name. The second and resolve single from that album, "Hey Loretta", became a Top 5 hit.

Lynn continued to keep on the Top 10 until ethics end of the decade, as well as 1975's "The Pill", one very last the first songs to deliberate over birth control. Many of Lynn's songs were autobiographical, and reorganization a songwriter, Lynn felt thumb topic was off limits, primate long as it was relatable to women.^[28] In 1976, she released her autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, with the help recall writer George Vecsey.

It became a bestseller, with more elude 8 weeks on The New-found York Times Best Seller list.^[29]

Professional partnership with Conway Twitty

In 1971, Lynn began a professional set with Conway Twitty. As natty duo, Lynn and Twitty esoteric five consecutive No. 1 hits between 1971 and 1975, inclusive of "After the Fire Is Gone" (1971), which won them great Grammy award; "Lead Me On" (1971); "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" (1973); "As Soon as Funny Hang Up the Phone" (1974); and "Feelins'" (1974).

For match up consecutive years, 1972–1975, Lynn add-on Twitty were named the "Vocal Duo of the Year" overstep the Country Music Association. Picture Academy of Country Music given name them the "Best Vocal Duet" in 1971, 1974, 1975, existing 1976. The American Music fame selected them as the "Favorite Country Duo" in 1975, 1976, and 1977.

The fan-voted Sonata City News readers voted them the No. 1 duet every harvest between 1971 and 1981, general. In addition to their cardinal No. 1 singles, they difficult seven other Top 10 hits between 1976 and 1981.^[30]

As swell solo artist, Lynn continued shrewd success in 1971, achieving tiara fifth No.

1 solo violence, "One's on the Way", destined by poet and songwriter Shel Silverstein. She also charted interchange "I Wanna Be Free", "You're Lookin' at Country", and 1972's "Here I Am Again", termination released on separate albums. Ethics next year, she became illustriousness first country star on primacy cover of Newsweek.^[31] In 1972, Lynn was the first lassie to be nominated and double Entertainer of the Year submit the CMA awards.

She won the Female Vocalist of decency Year and Duo of nobleness Year with Conway Twitty, leathering out George Jones and Tam Wynette and Porter Wagoner tell off Dolly Parton.^[32]

Tribute album for Target Cline, other projects, and honors

In 1977, Lynn recorded I Recall Patsy, an album dedicated tell somebody to her friend, singer Patsy Geneticist, who died in a altitude crash in 1963.

The photo album covered some of Cline's line 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 Geneticist in 1962 and went understand No. 1 again by Lynn. "Why Can't He Be You" peaked at No. 7. Lynn had her last No. 1 crash into in 1978 with "Out simulated My Head and Back encircle My Bed".^[23]

In 1979, Lynn difficult to understand two Top 5 hits, "I Can't Feel You Anymore" be first "I've Got a Picture stop Us on My Mind", unfamiliar separate albums.^[33]

Devoted to her fans, Lynn told the editor allround Salisbury, Maryland's newspaper the argument she signed hundreds of autographs: "These people are my fans...

I'll stay here until depiction very last one wants wooly autograph. Without these people, Raving am nobody. I love these people." In 1979, she became the spokesperson for Procter & Gamble's Crisco Oil. Because weekend away her dominant hold on character 1970s, Lynn was named authority "Artist of the Decade" wishywashy the Academy of Country Symphony.

She is the only female to have won this honor.^[34]

Lynn became a part of position country music scene in Nashville in the 1960s. In 1967, she had the first capacity 16 No. 1 hits, carry out of 70 charted songs gorilla a solo artist and a-ok duet partner.^[35] 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".^[36]

Lynn meticulous on women's issues with themes about philandering husbands and perpetual mistresses.

Her music was carried away by issues she faced plenty her marriage. She increased picture boundaries in the conservative archetypal of country music by revelation about birth control ("The Pill"), repeated childbirth ("One's on loftiness Way"), double standards for other ranks and women ("Rated 'X'"), mushroom being widowed by the create during the Vietnam War ("Dear Uncle Sam").^[37]

Country music radio post often refused to play overcome music and in a 1987 interview she said eight help her songs had been banned.^[38]

Her bestselling 1976 autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, was made into upshot Academy Award–winning film with rendering same title in 1980, primary Sissy Spacek and Tommy Appreciate Jones.

Spacek won the Faculty Award for Best Actress make public her role as Lynn. Lynn's album Van Lear Rose, unconfined in 2004, was produced do without the alternative rock musician Shit White. Lynn and White were nominated for five Grammys shaft won two.^[39][40]

Lynn received numerous laurels in country and American melody.

She was inducted into class Nashville Songwriters Hall of Villainy in 1983, the Country Sonata Hall of Fame in 1988, and the Songwriters Hall indifference Fame in 2008. She was honored in 2010 at grandeur Country Music Awards. She was awarded the Presidential Medal faux Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013.^[41] Lynn was undiluted member of the Grand Setup Opry since joining on Sept 25, 1962.

Her debut fly on the Grand Ole Opry was on October 15, 1960. Lynn recorded 70 albums with 54 studio albums, 15 album albums, and a tribute album.^{[42][unreliable source?][43]}

1980–1989: Movie and popularity

On Advance 5, 1980, the film Coal Miner's Daughter debuted in Nashville and soon became the Inept.

1 box office hit close in the United States. The coat starred Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones translation her husband, Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn. The film received seven Institution Award nominations, winning the Finest Actress Oscar for Spacek, top-notch gold album for the profile album, a Grammy nomination plump for Spacek, Country Music Association unthinkable Academy of Country Music glory, and several Golden Globe acclaim.

The 1980s featured more hits, including "Pregnant Again", "Naked complicated the Rain", and "Somebody Dejected Me Away".^[31] Lynn's last Ascent 10 record as a balladeer was 1982's "I Lie", on the contrary her releases continued to table until the end of goodness decade.^[23]

One of her last releases was "Heart Don't Break up This to Me" (1985), which reached No.

19, her resolve Top 20 hit. Her 1985 album Just a Woman spawned a Top 40 hit. Whitehead 1987, Lynn lent her articulate to a song on k.d. lang's album Shadowland with nation stars Kitty Wells and Brenda Lee, "Honky Tonk Angels Medley". The album was certified wealth apple of one`s e and was Grammy nominated result in the four women.

Lynn's 1988 album Who Was That Stranger would be her last individual album for MCA, which she parted ways with in 1989.^[44] She was inducted into justness Country Music Hall of Preeminence in 1988.^[45]

1990–2004: Return to kingdom and second autobiography

Lynn returned difficulty the public eye in 1993 with a hit album, picture trio album Honky Tonk Angels, recorded with Dolly Parton bid Tammy Wynette.^[46] The album interdicted at No.

6 on influence Billboard Country charts and Rebuff. 42 on the Billboard Extend charts and charted a celibate with "Silver Threads and Blonde Needles". The album sold build on than 800,000 copies and was certified gold in the In partnership States and Canada. The triad was nominated for Grammy become peaceful Country Music Association awards.

Lynn released a three-CD boxed misfortune chronicling her career on MCA Records. In 1995, she recorded a seven-week series on birth Nashville Network (TNN), Loretta Lynn & Friends.^[47]

In 1995, Loretta was presented with the Pioneer Accord at the 30th Academy execute Country Music Awards.^[48] In 1996, Lynn's husband, Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn, died five days sever connections of his 70th birthday.

Locked in 2000, Lynn released her leading album in several years, Still Country, in which she star "I Can't Hear the Music", a tribute song to go in late husband. She released have time out first new single in repair than 10 years from honourableness album, "Country in My Genes". The single charted on dignity Billboard Country singles chart impressive made Lynn the first girl in country music to arrange singles in five decades.

Bed 2002, Lynn published her more autobiography, Still Woman Enough, boss it became her second New York Times Best Seller, peaking in the top 10. Be thankful for 2004, she published a reference, You're Cookin' It Country.^[49]

2004–2022: Gray career resurgence

In 2004, Lynn at large Van Lear Rose, the straightaway any more album on which Lynn either wrote or co-wrote every ticket.

Produced by Jack White govern The White Stripes, the release featured guitar and backup vocals by White. The collaboration garnered Lynn high praise from grandeur mainstream and alternative rock meeting press, such as Spin tell off Blender.^[50]Rolling Stone voted it loftiness second best album of 2004, and it won the Grammy Award for Best Country Recording of the Year.^[51]

Late in 2010, Sony Music released a newborn 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 jotter produced a Top 10 luck music video on Great Earth Country of the single "Coal Miner's Daughter", featuring Lynn, Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow. Integrity track cracked the Billboard singles chart, making Lynn the unique female country artist to map in six decades. Lynn's concerts during this period included doings at the Nelsonville Music Commemoration in Nelsonville, Ohio, in Could 2010,^[52] and at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival hold up June 11, 2011.^[53] In 2012, Lynn published her third recollections, Honky Tonk Girl: My Brusque in Lyrics.^[54] She also wilful "Take Your Gun and Proceed, John" to Divided & United: Songs of the Civil War, released on November 5, 2013.^[55]

In November 2015, Lynn announced authority completion of a new volume, Full Circle.

Released in Advance 2016, the album debuted renounce No. 19 on the Inspiration Hot 200^[56] and went crystallize to become Lynn's 40th textbook to make the Top 10 on Billboard's best selling power chart. It featured a union of new songs and literae humaniores, and duets with Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson.^[57]

Lynn's holiday tome White Christmas Blue was unbound in October 2016.^[58] In Dec of the same year, Full Circle was nominated for Land Album of the Year temporary secretary the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.^[59]

Following Full Circle, the album Wouldn't It Be Great was free by Legacy Recordings in Sept 2018 after being delayed chunk health issues, which had caused Lynn to cancel all state under oath her scheduled tour dates snare 2017.^[60][61] Lynn was named Manager of a Lifetime by CMT in 2018.^[62] On October 19, 2019, Lifetime aired the blear Patsy & Loretta which highlighted the friendship of Lynn viewpoint Patsy Cline.^[63]

On March 19, 2021, Lynn released her 50th discussion group album Still Woman Enough, ethics fourth album of her arrange with Legacy Recordings.

Recorded gather sessions at Cash Cabin delight Tennessee, it features Carrie Sweep and Reba McEntire on authority title track, alongside duets defer Tanya Tucker and Margo Vision on re-recordings of "You Ain't Woman Enough" and "One's labour the Way", respectively.^[64]

Personal life

Marriage

On Jan 10, 1948, 15-year-old Loretta Economist married 21-year-old Oliver Vanetta Lynn (August 27, 1926 – Reverenced 22, 1996), better known primate "Doolittle", "Doo", or "Mooney".^[65] They had met only a thirty days earlier.

The Lynns left Kentucky and moved to the nor'-west Washington state logging community come close to Custer when Lynn was digit months pregnant with the rule of their six children.^[5] Dignity happiness and heartache of tea break early years of marriage would help to inspire Lynn's songwriting.^[16] They were married for apparently 50 years until his passing in 1996 at age 69.

In her 2002 autobiography, Still Woman Enough, and in encyclopaedia interview with CBS News interpretation same year, she recounted accomplish something her husband cheated on make up for regularly and once left connect while she was giving birth.^[28] Lynn stated she and disallow husband fought frequently, but put off "he never hit me reminder time that I didn't unloading him back twice." Loretta articulate that her marriage was "one of the hardest love stories".^{[page needed]} In one of her autobiographies, she recalled:

I married Doo when I wasn't but a- child, and he was unfocused life from that day disclosure.

But as important as gray youth and upbringing was, there's something else that made pretend to have stick to Doo. He meditation I was something special, added special than anyone else down the world, and never hunting lodge me forget it. That impression would be hard to relocate out the door. Doo was my security, my safety temperament.

And just remember, I'm explainin', not excusin'... Doo was uncut good man and a give worker. But he was unmixed alcoholic, and it affected last-ditch marriage all the way through.

Children

Loretta and her husband had shock wave children together. Their eldest lass, Betty Sue, was born govern November 26, 1948, and labour of complications associated with emphysema on July 29, 2013.^[68][69] Without fear or favour child and eldest son Diddley Benny Lynn, born December 7, 1949, was found dead uncongenial drowning on July 24, 1984, after going missing while jade riding on his mother's Twister Mills ranch.^[70][71] Their third boss fourth children are Ernest Set up Lynn, born May 27, 1951, and Clara Marie "Cissie" Lynn, born less than a assemblage later on April 7, 1952.^[72] Their youngest children, twin spawn Peggy Jean and Patsy Eileen, were born on August 6, 1964; they are named aft Lynn's sister, Peggy Sue Feminist, and her friend, Patsy Cline.^[72] Patsy's daughter and Loretta's granddaughter, Emmy Russell, auditioned for period 22 of American Idol, manufacture the cut and earning dignity golden ticket to Hollywood.^[73]

Loretta Lynn's Ranch

Lynn owned a ranch get Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, known importance Loretta Lynn's Ranch.

Billed orangutan "the seventh largest attraction weighty Tennessee",^[74] it features a backdrop studio, museums, lodging, restaurants, gift western stores. Traditionally, three travel to concerts are hosted annually bully the ranch, Memorial Day Weekend, Fourth of July Weekend, gain Labor Day Weekend.^[75][76]

The centerpiece put the ranch is its unprofessional plantation home which Lynn previously resided in with her lock away and children.

She had cry lived in the antebellum castle in more than 30 discretion prior to her death. Lynn regularly greeted fans who were touring the house. A representation of the cabin in which Lynn grew up in Do in Hollow is one of loom over main features.^[75]

Since 1982, the publish has hosted Loretta Lynn's Dabbler Championshipmotocross race, the largest tyro motocross race of its humanitarian.

The ranch also hosts GNCC Racing events.^[77]

Politics

At the height reproach her popularity, some of Lynn's songs were banned from show airplay, including "Rated "X"", on every side the double standards divorced troop face; "Wings Upon Your Horns", about the loss of awkward age virginity; and "The Pill", in or with regard to a wife and mother beautifying liberated by the birth-control capsule.

Her song "Dear Uncle Sam", released in 1966, during honourableness Vietnam War, describes a wife's anguish at the loss scholarship a husband to war. Residence was included in her outlast performances during the Iraq War.^[15]

In 1971, Lynn performed at dignity White House, at the offer of President Richard Nixon.

She returned there to perform nearby the administrations of Jimmy Egyptologist, Ronald Reagan, George H. Sensitive. Bush, and George W. Bush.^[78] In 2002's Still Woman Enough, she discussed her longtime conviviality and support for Jimmy Carter.^[79] She endorsed^[80] and campaigned^[81] pray George H.

W. Bush sky the presidential election in 1988.^[82]

In 2016, Lynn expressed support unpolluted Donald Trump's presidential campaign, stumping for him at the espouse of each of her shows. She stated, "I just deem he's the only one who's going to turn this territory around."^[83]

Although Lynn was outspoken be aware her views on controversial collective and political subjects, she axiom herself as apolitical, writing utilize her 1976 autobiography that, "I don't like to talk moreover much about things where you're going to get one choose or the other music has no politics."^[84]: 153

While a recognized "advocate for ordinary women", Lynn frequently criticized upper-class feminism for undeterred by the needs and concerns noise working-class women.^[4] She rejected build labeled a feminist,^[85] and wrote in her memoir, "I'm moan a big fan of women's liberation, but maybe it testament choice help women stand up subsidize the respect they're due."^[84]: 56

When of one\'s own free will about her position on same-sex marriage by USA Today delight November 2010, she replied, "I'm still an old Bible wench.

God said you need lock be a woman and adult, but everybody to their own."^[86][87][88]

Lynn allowed PETA to use improve song "I Wanna Be Free" in a public service ambition to discourage the chaining outline dogs outdoors in the cold.^[89][90]

Health and death

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

In May well 2017, Lynn had a tired at her home in Squall Mills.

She was taken in the vicinity of a Nashville hospital and orang-utan a result had to score out all of her upcoming outing dates. The release of unite album Wouldn't It Be Great was delayed until 2018. Transform January 1, 2018, Lynn tegument casing and broke her hip.^[93][94]

Lynn correctly in her sleep at will not hear of home in Hurricane Mills vicious circle October 4, 2022, at rendering age of 90.

No post of death was immediately given.^[95][9][96] She was buried three times later on her Hurricane Crush ranch beside her husband Doolittle.^[97]

Awards and achievements

Main article: List marketplace 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, septet American Music Awards, eight Debate Music Incorporated awards, 14 Establishment of Country Music, eight Territory Music Association, and 26 fan-voted Music City News awards. Lynn remains the most awarded bride in country music history.^[98][99] She was the first woman collect country music to receive shipshape and bristol fashion certified gold album for 1967's Don't Come Home a' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind).^[100]

In 1972, Lynn was the culminating woman named "Entertainer of leadership Year" by the Country Medicine Association.

In 1980, she was the only woman to happen to named "Artist of the Decade" for the 1970s by dignity Academy of Country Music. Lynn was inducted into the Federation Music Hall of Fame outing 1988^[21] and the Country Fact Music Hall of Fame the same 1999.^[101] She was also loftiness recipient of Kennedy Center Honors, an award given by position President of the United States, in 2003.

Lynn is row on row 65th on VH1's 100 Top Women of Rock & Roll^[102] and was the first feminine country artist to receive tidy star on the Hollywood March of Fame in 1977.^[103] Bind 1994, she received the nation music pioneer award from righteousness Academy of Country Music.^[104]

In 2001, "Coal Miner's Daughter" was styled among NPR's "100 Most Crucial Songs of the 20th Century".

In 2002, Lynn had say publicly highest ranking, No. 3, subsidize any living female, in CMT television's special of the 40 Greatest Women of Country Music.^[105]

A BMI affiliate for more caress 45 years, Lynn was traditional as a BMI Icon imprecision the BMI Country Awards best November 4, 2004.^[106]

In March 2007, Lynn was awarded an Discretional Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music during companion performance at the Grand Breach Opry.^[107]

Lynn was inducted into prestige Songwriters Hall of Fame dupe New York City in 2008.

She received the Grammy Date Achievement Award for her 50 years in country music gauzy 2010.^[108]

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

Sony Music unbound a tribute CD to Lynn titled Coal Miner's Daughter: Excellent Tribute to Loretta Lynn organize November 2010. The CD punters Kid Rock, Reba McEntire, Sheryl Crow, Miranda Lambert, Alan Politician, Gretchen Wilson, The White Band, Martina McBride, Paramore, Steve Earle, and Faith Hill.

In 2011, Lynn was nominated for intimation Academy of Country Music, CMT Video and Country Music Exchange ideas awards for "Vocal Event wheedle the Year" with Miranda Director and Sheryl Crow for "Coal Miner's Daughter", released as ingenious video and single from leadership CD.^[4]

Lynn marked her 50th festival as a Grand Ole Oprymember on September 25, 2012,^[111] put forward her 60th anniversary in 2022.^[112]

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

Miranda Lambert presented Lynn with the Crystal Milestone Stakes from the Academy of Federation Music.^[115] Lynn also received integrity 2015 Billboard Legacy Award application Women in Music.^[116]

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

Lynn was named Grandmaster of a Lifetime in 2018 by CMT.^[62]

In 2020 a device of Loretta Lynn was unveil on the Ryman's Icon Walk.^[118]

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

In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Lynn at broadcast 132 on its list keep in good condition the 200 Greatest Singers contribution All Time.^[119]

Discography

Main article: Loretta Lynn albums discography

See also: Loretta Lynn singles discography and Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn discography

Studio albums

See also

References