Country music legend Loretta Lynn dies at 90
Lynn’s family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.
She did all this at a time when women were most often the voices through which men’s words and melodies were heard. She was Nashville’s first prominent woman to write and record her own material, and was one of the first female music stars to generate her own hits.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’ ,” “Rated X” and “You’re Looking at Country.
“It was what I wanted to hear and what I knew other women wanted to hear, too,” Lynn told The Associated Press in 2016. “I didn’t write for the men; I wrote for us women. And the men loved it, too.”song “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” which helped her reach her widest audience yet.“We were poor but we had love / That’s the one thing Daddy made sure of / He shoveled coal to make a poor man’s dollar,” she sang.
“She is the single most important female singer-songwriter of the 20th century,” White told The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, at the time. “I was singing when I was born, I think,” she told the AP in 2016. “Daddy used to come out on the porch where I would be singing and rocking the 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.’”
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.
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