![]() One of the biggest songs of her career, "Coal Miner's Daughter," proudly recounted her background. "In a music business that is often concerned with aspiration and fantasy, Loretta insisted on sharing her own brash and brave truth."īorn Loretta Webb, the singer was raised in a remote coal mining community in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. "The story of Loretta Lynn's life is unlike any other, yet she drew from that story a body of work that resonates with people who might never fully understand her bleak and remote childhood, her hardscrabble early days, or her adventures as a famous and beloved celebrity," Kyle Young, CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, said in a statement. "Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, in her sleep at home at her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills," her family said in a statement. ![]() ![]() Loretta Lynn, the country music icon who brought unparalleled candor about the domestic realities of working-class women to country songwriting - and taught those who came after her to speak their minds, too – died today at her home in Tennessee. ![]() Loretta Lynn performs on stage in California in 1972. ![]()
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