Loretta Lynn Biography

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Loretta Lynn
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Loretta Lynn became a country music star the old-fashioned way: She earned it. Born Loretta Webb in 1935 in Butcher Hollow, Ky., Loretta (she was named for her mother's fondness for actress Loretta Young), the youngster was the daughter of a coal miner who grew up during the Depression, living in a small shack, one of eight children. The family got a radio when Loretta was 11 and she became enamored with country music. Marrying Mooney Lynn at 13, the pair moved to Custer, Wash., where during an evening of songs in a grange hall by others, Mooney got up and said his wife was better than all of them. He had bought her a cheap guitar and listened as she sang to her growing family (she became a grandmother at 29). In 1960, she first appeared on radio in Custer and got a steady job after that, recording her first sides for Zero Records. A lack of promotional funds made the Lynns take off on an 80,000 mile tour that sold 50,000 records of "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl," the tune reaching No. 14 on country charts and garnering her a 20-week appearance on Grand Ole Opry. Although she began in the brash Kitty Wells style of singing and writing, Loretta eventually softened while writing somewhat controversial material such as "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' With Lovin' On Your Mind," "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" and the banned from stations song "The Pill," in support of birth control. Her music was written from the viewpoint of a wife, an innovation in those days since it seemed to eschew the fantasyland of lyrics for reality. Her song and subsequent autobiography, "Coal Miner's Daughter," became a hit movie. She teamed up with Conway Twitty for several duets that helped maintain her purist country style when Nashville was changing to a more pop style. In 1975, she recorded "The Pill," which was seen as an answer to Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man." She later had a hit with "Pregnant Again." Lynn became the first woman to nab the Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year award in 1972, 1973 and 1974 but Billboard Magazine had given her that honor in 1967-68 and Record World in 1964. She was on the cover of Newsweek in 1973. She has had 16 No. 1 singles and at least 60 other hits, 15 No. 1 albums, many honors, owns a ranch with a tourist attraction called Dude Ranch, and of late has moved more to a mainstream approach, although still not in the pop market. She does not record much these days but has been said to be working on an album with her sisters, Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue Wright.

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