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Kentucky coal miner’s daughter Loretta Lynn, 90
By Nidz Godino
“It was what I wanted to hear and what I knew other women wanted to hear, too,” Lynn told media in 2016… “I didn’t write for the men; I wrote for us women…and men loved it, too.”
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 pillar of country music, has died. She was 90. In a statement provided to media, Lynn’s family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. Lynn already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background.
As a songwriter, she crafted persona of defiantly tough woman, a contrast to the stereotypical image of most female country singers. 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.
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 floor-length, wide gowns with elaborate embroidery or rhinestones, many created by her longtime personal assistant and designer Tim Cobb.
Her honesty and unique place in country music was rewarded. She was the first woman ever named entertainer of the year at the genre’s two major awards shows, first by the Country Music Association in 1972 and then by the Academy of Country Music three years later.
In 1969, she released her autobiographical “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” which helped her reach her widest audience yet.
“We were poor but we had love…that’s one thing Daddy made sure of he shoveled coal to make poor man’s dollar,” she sang.
“Coal Miner’s Daughter,” also the title of her 1976 book, was made into 1980 movie of the same name. Sissy Spacek’s portrayal of Lynn won her an Academy Award and the film was also nominated for best picture.
Long after her commercial peak, Lynn won two Grammys in 2005 for her album “Van Lear Rose,” which featured 13 songs she wrote, including “Portland, Oregon” about a drunken one-night stand. “Van Lear Rose” was a collaboration with rocker Jack White, who produced album and played guitar parts.
Born Loretta Webb, second of eight children, she claimed her birthplace was Butcher Holler, near coal mining company town of Van Lear in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. There really wasn’t Butcher Holler. She later told reporter she made up name for purposes of the song based on names of families lived there.
Her daddy played banjo, her mama played guitar and she grew up on songs of Carter Family.
“I was singing when I was born, I think,” she told media also in 2016…’Daddy used to come out on porch where I would be singing and rocking babies to sleep…he’d say, ‘Loretta, shut that big mouth…people all over this holler can hear you…’ and I said, ‘Daddy, what difference does it make…they are all my cousins.'”
She wrote in her autobiography that she was 13 when she got married to Oliver “Mooney” Lynn, but media later discovered state records that showed she was 15. Tommy Lee Jones played Mooney Lynn in biopic.
Her husband, whom she called “Doo” or “Doolittle,” urged her to sing professionally and helped promote her early career. With his help, she earned recording contract with Decca Records, later MCA, and performed on the Grand Ole Opry stage. Lynn wrote her first hit single, “I’m Honky Tonk Girl,” released in 1960.
She also teamed up with singer Conway Twitty to form one of the most popular duos in country music, with hits such as “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man” and “After the Fire is Gone,” which earned them Grammy Award. Their duets, and her single records, were always mainstream country and not crossover or pop-tinged.
The Academy of Country Music chose her as artist of the decade for the 1970s, and she was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988.
In “Fist City,” Lynn threatens hair-pulling fistfight if another woman won’t stay away from her man: “I’m here to tell you, gal, to lay off of my man…If you don’t want to go to Fist City.” That strong-willed but traditional country woman reappears in other Lynn songs. In “The Pill,” a song about sex and birth control, Lynn writes about how she’s sick of being trapped at home to take care of babies: “The feelin’ good comes easy now,since I’ve got the pill,” she sang.
She moved to Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, outside of Nashville, in the 1990s, where she set up ranch complete with replica of her childhood home and museum that is popular roadside tourist stop. The dresses she was known for wearing are there, too.
Lynn knew that her songs were trailblazing, especially for country music, but she was just writing the truth that so many rural women like her experienced.
“I could see that other women was goin’ through the same thing, ’cause I worked the clubs… I wasn’t the only one that was livin’ that life and I’m not the only one that’s gonna be livin’ today what I’m writin’,” she told media in 1995.
Even into her later years, Lynn never seemed to stop writing, scoring multi-album deal in 2014 with Legacy Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. In 2017, she suffered a stroke that forced her to postpone her shows.
She and her husband were married nearly 50 years before he died in 1996. They had six children, Betty, Jack, Ernest and Clara, and then twins Patsy and Peggy. She had 17 grandchildren and four step-grandchildren.
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