{"id":1674217,"date":"2022-10-05T13:54:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1674217"},"modified":"2022-10-05T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:54:31","slug":"loretta-lynn-grammy-winning-country-music-legend-dead-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/loretta-lynn-grammy-winning-country-music-legend-dead-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Loretta Lynn, Grammy-Winning Country Music Legend, Dead at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Floretta-lynn-grammy-winning-country-music-legend-dead-at-90%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1674217&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Loretta Lynn, the three-time Grammy-winning country music legend who reshaped the industry and blazed a trail for countless artists, passed Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. She was 90.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lynn\u2019s family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOur precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home in her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills,\u201d the family said in a statement. They asked for privacy as they grieve and said a memorial will be announced later.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">As a songwriter, she crafted a persona of a 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.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-242 p Component-p-0-2-232\">Her biggest hits came in the 1960s and \u201970s, including \u201cCoal Miner\u2019s Daughter,\u201d \u201cYou Ain\u2019t Woman Enough,\u201d \u201cThe Pill,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Come Home a Drinkin\u2019 (With Lovin\u2019 on Your Mind),\u201d \u201cRated X\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019re Looking at Country.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>Her honesty and unique place in country music was rewarded. She was the first woman ever named entertainer of the year at the genre\u2019s two major awards shows, first by the Country Music Association in 1972 and then by the Academy of Country Music three years later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was what I wanted to hear and what I knew other women wanted to hear, too,\u201d Lynn told the AP in 2016. \u201cI didn\u2019t write for the men; I wrote for us women. And the men loved it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1969, she released her autobiographical \u201cCoal Miner\u2019s Daughter,\u201d which helped her reach her widest audience yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201cWe were poor but we had love\/That\u2019s the one thing Daddy made sure of\/He shoveled coal to make a poor man\u2019s dollar,\u201d she sang.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCoal Miner\u2019s Daughter,\u201d also the title of her 1976 book, was made into a 1980 movie of the same name. Sissy Spacek\u2019s portrayal of Lynn won her an Academy Award and the film was also nominated for best picture.<\/p>\n<p>Long after her commercial peak, Lynn won two Grammys in 2005 for her album \u201cVan Lear Rose,\u201d which featured 13 songs she wrote, including \u201cPortland, Oregon\u201d about a drunken one-night stand. \u201cVan Lear Rose\u201d was a collaboration with rocker Jack White, who produced the album and played the guitar parts.<\/p>\n<p>Born Loretta Webb, the second of eight children, she claimed her birthplace was Butcher Holler, near the coal mining company town of Van Lear in the mountains of east Kentucky. There really wasn\u2019t a Butcher Holler, however. She later told a reporter that she made up the name for the purposes of the song based on the names of the families that lived there.<\/p>\n<p>Her daddy played the banjo, her mama played the guitar and she grew up on the songs of the Carter Family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201cI was singing when I was born, I think,\u201d she told the AP in 2016. \u201cDaddy used to come out on the porch where I would be singing and rocking the babies to sleep. He\u2019d say, \u2018Loretta, shut that big mouth. People all over this holler can hear you.\u2019 And I said, \u2018Daddy, what difference does it make? They are all my cousins.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>She wrote in her autobiography that she was 13 when she got married to Oliver \u201cMooney\u201d Lynn, but the AP later discovered state records that showed she was 15. Tommy Lee Jones played Mooney Lynn in the biopic.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, whom she called \u201cDoo\u201d or \u201cDoolittle,\u201d urged her to sing professionally and helped promote her early career. With his help, she earned a recording contract with Decca Records, later MCA, and performed on the Grand Ole Opry stage. Lynn wrote her first hit single, \u201cI\u2019m a Honky Tonk Girl,\u201d released in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>She also teamed up with singer Conway Twitty to form one of the most popular duos in country music with hits such as \u201cLouisiana Woman, Mississippi Man\u201d and \u201cAfter the Fire is Gone,\u201d which earned them a Grammy Award. Their duets, and her single records, were always mainstream country and not crossover or pop-tinged.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy of Country Music chose her as the artist of the decade for the 1970s, and she was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988.<br \/>FILE \u2013 Country music singer Loretta Lynn points to her Hollywood Walk of Fame star during induction ceremonies in Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 8, 1978. Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner\u2019s daughter who became a pillar of country music, died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. She was 90. (AP Photo\/File)<br \/>Lynn with her Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 1978. (AP Photo\/File)<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cFist City,\u201d Lynn threatens a hair-pulling fistfight if another woman won\u2019t stay away from her man: \u201cI\u2019m here to tell you, gal, to lay off of my man\/If you don\u2019t want to go to Fist City.\u201d That strong-willed but traditional country woman reappears in other Lynn songs. In \u201cThe Pill,\u201d a song about sex and birth control, Lynn writes about how she\u2019s sick of being trapped at home to take care of babies: \u201cThe feelin\u2019 good comes easy now\/Since I\u2019ve got the pill,\u201d she sang.<\/p>\n<p>She moved to Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, outside of Nashville, in the 1990s, where she set up a ranch complete with a replica of her childhood home and a museum that is a popular roadside tourist stop. The dresses she was known for wearing are there, too.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could see that other women was goin\u2019 through the same thing, \u2018cause I worked the clubs. I wasn\u2019t the only one that was livin\u2019 that life and I\u2019m not the only one that\u2019s gonna be livin\u2019 today what I\u2019m writin\u2019,\u201d she told The AP in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Even into her later years, Lynn never seemed to stop writing, scoring a 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loretta Lynn, the three-time Grammy-winning country music legend who reshaped the industry and blazed a trail for countless artists, passed Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. 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