“Most songwriters tended to write about falling in love, breaking up and being alone, things like that,” Lynn told The Wall Street Journal in 2016. Her twang was warm and languid but Lynn’s lyrics were anything but: She sang with searing precision of marriage’s growing pains and gave voice to issues facing women that had long been kept quiet. She started her own band, Loretta and the Trailblazers, and began playing bar sets before cutting her first record – “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl” in 1960. The self-taught musician penned lyrics inspired by her own early experiences as a married woman and her oft-tumultuous relationship, the nascent days of a prolific career that would see the artist release dozens of albums. They moved to a logging community in Washington state, and Lynn gave birth to four children before the age of 20, adding twins to the family not long after.Īn admirer of his wife’s voice, her husband bought Lynn a guitar in the early 1950s. He shoveled coal to make a poor man’s dollar.”Īt just 15 years old, the artist married Oliver Vanetta Lynn, who she remained married to for nearly 50 years until his death in 1996. “We were poor but we had love / That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of.
“Well, I was borned a coal miner’s daughter / In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler,” Lynn sang in the hit recorded in 1970 - later the theme song for a 1980 movie about her life starring Sissy Spacek, who won an Oscar for the role. Lynn saw a number of her edgy tracks banned by country music stations, but over the course of more than six decades in the business, she became a standard-bearer of the genre and its most decorated female artist ever.īorn Loretta Webb on 14 April 1932 in small-town Kentucky, Lynn was the eldest daughter in an impoverished family of eight kids, a childhood she immortalized in her iconic track “Coal Miner’s Daughter” – a staple on lists of all-time best songs. Kyle Young, CEO /pSJlkzT9aD- Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum October 4, 2022 In a music business that is often concerned with aspiration and fantasy, Loretta insisted on sharing her own brash and brave truth.” “In a music business that is often concerned with aspiration and fantasy, Loretta insisted on sharing her own brash and brave truth.”Ī post shared by Carrie Underwood Lynn's life was unlike any other, yet she drew from it a body of work that resonates with people everywhere. I am truly grateful to have known such an amazing woman and artist,” Underwood added.ĬEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame Kyle Young said Lynn’s life was “unlike any other, yet she drew from it a body of work that resonates with people everywhere”. “But her legacy lives on in those of us whom she influenced. Loretta Lynn ❤️ /VqwmkcOAqy- Carole King October 4, 2022Ĭarole King also shared a tribute on Twitter, saying simply of Lynn: “She was an inspiration”.Ĭountry singer Barbara Mandrell said Lynn “contributed enormously” to the world of country music, adding “all of us adored and loved her”, while Carrie Underwood said Lynn was “irreplaceable” and will be “incredibly missed”. ❤️ /lMThmUgY8x- Dolly Parton October 4, 2022 We’ve been like sisters all the years we’ve been in Nashville and she was a wonderful human being, wonderful talent, had millions of fans and I’m one of them. A post shared by Loretta Lynn have poured in across social media from musicians and artists following the news of her death.ĭolly Parton said on Twitter: “So sorry to hear about my sister, friend Loretta.