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Loretta Lynn was an American country music singer and songwriter. In a career spanning six decades, Lynn released multiple gold albums. She had numerous hits such as "Hey Loretta", "The Pill", "Blue Kentucky Girl", "Love Is the Foundation", "You're Lookin' at Country", "You Ain't Woman Enough", "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl", "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' ", "One's on the Way", "Fist City", and "Coal Miner…
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entertainment · American country singer (1932–2022) · singer-songwriter · guitarist · violinist · recording artist · screenwriter · composer · singer · country musician · songwriter · also Loretta Lynn, Loretta Webb, Lynn
Born 14 April 1932 · Died 4 October 2022 · Q272931
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“one of the hardest love stories”
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“he never hit me one time that I didn”
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“s newspaper the reason she signed hundreds of autographs:”
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“Best friends are like husbands. You only need one at a time.”
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ruta66.es: Lynn Blakey – Dreams Are Lovers: A Retrospective (Yep Roc)
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Lynn Arlan Hoggard - The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
QSaltLake Magazine: In Memoriam: Carol Lynn Pearson (1939-2026)
elplaneta.com: Abre una encuesta en español para artistas y residentes de Lynn como parte de su primer plan cultural del centro
Chic Magazine: Jamie Lynn Spears rompe el silencio sobre cancelación de “Zoey 101”
euromotor.app: Cadillac confirma el regreso de Lynn para las últimas rondas del WEC y ficha a Taylor para COTA
Bergeson & Campbell: Lynn L. Bergeson Earns Highest Accolades from Chambers and Partners and Best Lawyers
WJHG: Lynn Haven couple overwhelmed by community support after losing home to fire
Quién: Jamie Lynn Spears revela la verdad sobre el final de ‘Zoey 101’: “No terminó porque quedé embarazada”
Itemlive: Lynn connects with Ukrainian children through art and music
Arnett & Steele Funeral Home: Rachel Lynn Owens Obituary Aug 18, 2026
facebook.com: Boston 25 News. . Two Lynn police officers have been placed on paid administrative leave after an audit of the department's Flock license plate reader system uncovered a concerning pattern of searches.
OPEIU Local 153: Local 153 Executive Board Member, Lynn Brooks, meets with Governor Kathy Hochul to discuss the worrying expansion of AI in the workplace
Jones Kenney Zechman Funeral Home: Obituary for Deborah Lynn (Taulbee) Murphy
Paddock News 24: Alex Lynn regresa al WEC con Cadillac para el final de temporada y Ricky Taylor corre en COTA
AutoHebdo: Alex Lynn regresa con Cadillac en Barcelona, Ricky Taylor se une al equipo en Austin.
FIA WEC: Cadillac confirms Lynn return as Taylor stands in for COTA
Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra: Dos policía de Lynn puestos en licencia administrativa
Wrenn-Yeatts Funeral Home: Lynn Jeffery Hughes Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information - Wrenn-Yeatts Funeral Home
Por Esto!: Jamie Lynn Spears señala que su embarazo no causó el fin de ‘Zoey 101’
Itemlive: Lynn weighs expanding historic protections in Diamond District
Itemlive: Lynn to host Mental Health Walk on Saturday
eltiempomx.com: Jamie Lynn Spears niega que su embarazo provocara el final de 'Zoey 101'
El Universal: Jamie Lynn Spears aclara que "Zoey 101" no se terminó por su embarazo: "Es una idea errónea"
Released album “Cookin’ Up Lovin’”.
Died 2022-10-04.
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Published video “Loretta Lynn - Take Me Home, Country Roads (Lyric Video)”.
Stating "she shook up Nashville by writing her own songs, many of which tackled boundary-pushing topics drawn from her own life experiences as a wife and mother"
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Published video “Hometown Rising: Thank You!”.
Published video “United Way of Humphreys County - Hometown Rising”.
Published video “The Heart of a Sheriff - Hometown Rising”.
Published video “Remembering Our Friend - Hometown Rising”.
Published video “Waverly Tigers Resilience - Hometown Rising”.
Published video “LORETTA LYNN'S FRIENDS HOMETOWN RISING BENEFIT CONCERT - Sept 13th at The Grand Ole Opry”.
Awarded Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award (2021).
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Published video “Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood - Behind the Scenes of "Still Woman Enough"”.
Lynn released her 50th studio album Still Woman Enough, the fourth album of her deal with Legacy Recordings
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Released album “Still Woman Enough”.
Published video “Loretta Lynn - Celebrating Loretta's History in Country Music”.
Published video “Loretta Lynn - Behind The Scenes of "One's On The Way" ft. Margo Price”.
Published video “Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter (Recitation) (Official Music Video)”.
fact checker rated the claim “In August 2020, famous 20th century musicians Loretta Lynn and Kid Rock married each other.” fake.
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Snopes rated the claim “In August 2020, Loretta Lynn and Kid Rock married each other.” False.
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Published video “Loretta Lynn - I Fall To Pieces (Official Music Video)”.
Published video “Loretta Lynn - I Fall To Pieces (Official Audio)”.
Published video “Loretta Lynn - Lulie Vars (Official Audio)”.
Published video “Loretta Lynn - Whispering Sea Introduction (Official Audio)”.
Published video “Loretta Lynn - Blue Christmas (Official Audio)”.
Lifetime aired the movie Patsy & Loretta which highlighted the friendship of Lynn and Patsy Cline
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Snopes rated the claim “Country singer Loretta Lynn passed away in December 2018 and left behind a pro-Trump note for her fans.” Labeled Satire.
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Released album “Wouldn’t It Be Great”.
Lynn fell and broke her hip
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Released album “White Christmas Blue”.
Released album “Full Circle”.
Was the subject of an American Masters profile documentary Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl on PBS
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Lynn expressed support for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, stumping for him at the end of each of her shows
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Awarded Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting (2014).
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2013).
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Lynn published her third autobiography, Honky Tonk Girl: My Life in Lyrics
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Lynn was nominated for an Academy of Country Music, CMT Video and Country Music Association awards for "Vocal Event of the Year" with Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow for "Coal Miner's Daughter", released as a video and s
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2010).
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Sony Music released a new compilation album, Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn, featuring stars like Reba McEntire, Faith Hill, Paramore, and Carrie Underwood performing Lynn's classic hits spanning 50 yea
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When interviewed for Jimmy McDonough's biography of Tammy Wynette, Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen, Lynn said of having best friends in Patsy and Tammy during different times: "Best friends are like husbands
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As the music industry celebrated her 50th year as a country artist
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Country Album for Van Lear Rose (2004).
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Awarded Americana Award for Artist of the Year (2004).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for Portland Oregon (2004).
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Awarded Kentucky Women Remembered (2004).
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Released album “Van Lear Rose”.
Lynn released Van Lear Rose, the second album on which Lynn either wrote or co-wrote every song
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Published a cookbook, You're Cookin' It Country
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Was produced by the alternative rock musician Jack White
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2003).
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Lynn published her second autobiography, Still Woman Enough, and it became her second New York Times Best Seller, peaking in the Top 10
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Lynn had the highest ranking, No
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Released album “Daughter of Country”.
"Coal Miner's Daughter" was named among NPR's "100 Most Significant Songs of the 20th Century"
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Released album “Still Country”.
Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn”.
Lynn released her first album in several years, Still Country, in which she included "I Can't Hear the Music", a tribute song to her late husband
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Released album “Best of the Best”.
Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Loretta Lynn”.
Released album “Loretta Lynn Sings Gospel”.
Released album “The Very Best of Loretta Lynn”.
Released album “Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn Sing Their Biggest Hits”.
Released album “All Time Gospel Favorites”.
Lynn's husband, Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn, died five days short of his 70th birthday
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Released album “Legendary Country Singers: Loretta Lynn”.
Loretta was presented with the Pioneer Award at the 30th Academy of Country Music Awards
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Released album “Country Gospel Greats”.
Taped a seven-week series on the Nashville Network (TNN), Loretta Lynn & Friends
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Released album “Honky Tonk Girl: The Loretta Lynn Collection”.
Released album “Making More Memories”.
Released album “Coal Miner’s Daughter”.
Received the country music pioneer award from the Academy of Country Music
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Released album “Honky Tonk Angels”.
With a hit album, the trio album Honky Tonk Angels, recorded with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette
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Released album “Coal Miner’s Daughter the Best of Loretta Lynn”.
Released album “Best of Loretta Lynn”.
Released album “The Old Rugged Cross”.
Released album “Just a Closer Walk With Thee”.
Released album “The Country Music Hall of Fame: Loretta Lynn”.
Released album “Softly and Tenderly”.
Released album “Peace in the Valley”.
Released album “Making Believe”.
Released album “Who Was That Stranger”.
And the Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1999
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Released album “20 Greatest Hits”.
Lynn lent her voice to a song on k
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Released album “The Best of Conway & Loretta”.
Released album “Just a Woman”.
Awarded American Music Award of Merit (1985).
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Released album “Blue Eyed Kentucky Girl”.
Released album “Great Country Hits”.
After going missing while horse riding on his mother's Hurricane Mills ranch
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Released album “Lyin’, Cheatin’, Woman Chasin’, Honky Tonkin’, Whiskey Drinkin’ You”.
The Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008
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Released album “Making Love From Memory”.
Released album “I Lie”.
Released album “Two’s a Party”.
Released album “The Loretta Lynn Story”.
Released album “The History of Country Music Presents Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette”.
Released album “Lookin’ Good”.
The film Coal Miner's Daughter debuted in Nashville and soon became the No
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Released album “Loretta”.
Was the only woman to be named "Artist of the Decade" for the 1970s by the Academy of Country Music
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Starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones
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Released album “The Very Best of Loretta and Conway”.
Released album “We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby”.
Released album “Diamond Duet”.
Became the spokesperson for Procter & Gamble's Crisco Oil
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Lynn had two Top 5 hits, "I Can't Feel You Anymore" and "I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind", from separate albums
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Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Country Female Artist (1978).
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1978).
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Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Country Band/Duo/Group (1978).
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Released album “Out of My Head and Back in My Bed”.
Released album “Honky Tonk Heroes”.
Released album “All My Best”.
Became a special guest star on The Muppet Show
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With "Out of My Head and Back in My Bed"
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Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Country Band/Duo/Group (1977).
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Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Country Female Artist (1977).
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Released album “I Remember Patsy”.
Released album “Dynamic Duo”.
Released album “This Is Loretta Lynn”.
Lynn recorded I Remember Patsy, an album dedicated to her friend, singer Patsy Cline, who died in a plane crash in 1963
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Released album “Somebody Somewhere”.
Released album “United Talent”.
Released album “When the Tingle Becomes a Chill”.
Released her autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, with the help of writer George Vecsey
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Released album “Home”.
Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Country Band/Duo/Group (1975).
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Released album “Back to the Country”.
Released album “Feelins’”.
Released album “They Don’t Make ’Em Like My Daddy”.
Released album “Country Partners”.
“As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone”
Released album “Loretta Lynn”.
Released album “Love Is the Foundation”.
Released album “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man”.
Awarded Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist of the Year (1973).
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Released album “The Ernest Tubb / Loretta Lynn Story”.
Released album “Entertainer of the Year”.
“Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man”
Released album “Loretta Lynn’s Greatest Hits, Vol. II”.
Released album “Never Ending Song of Love”.
Released album “Here I Am Again…”.
Awarded Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist of the Year (1972).
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Released album “Alone With You”.
Released album “God Bless America Again”.
Released album “One’s on the Way”.
Lynn was the first woman named "Entertainer of the Year" by the Country Music Association
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Lynn was the first woman to be nominated and win Entertainer of the Year at the CMA awards
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Released album “You’re Lookin’ at Country”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for After the Fire Is Gone (1971).
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Released album “I Wanna Be Free”.
Released album “Lead Me On”.
Released album “We Only Make Believe”.
Lynn performed at the White House, at the invitation of President Richard Nixon
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Lynn began a professional partnership with Conway Twitty
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Released album “Loretta Lynn Writes ’Em and Sings ’Em”.
Released album “Wings Upon Your Horns”.
Released album “Woman of the World / To Make a Man”.
Released album “Your Squaw Is on the Warpath”.
Released album “If We Put Our Heads Together”.
Her next single, "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)", was Lynn's fourth chart-topper, followed by a subsequent Top 10, "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)"
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Released album “Loretta Lynn’s Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Fist City”.
Released album “Who Says God Is Dead!”.
Her next studio album, Your Squaw Is on the Warpath, spawned two Top 5 Country hits, including the title track and "You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out on Me)"
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Released album “Here's Loretta Lynn”.
Released album “Singin’ With Feelin’”.
Awarded Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist of the Year (1967).
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Released album “Singin’ Again”.
Released album “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)”.
Lynn released the single "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", It was her second No
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Released album “Country Christmas”.
Released album “You Ain’t Woman Enough”.
Released album “I Like ’Em Country”.
During the Vietnam War, describes a wife's anguish at the loss of a husband to war
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Released album “Hymns”.
Released album “Mr. And Mrs. Used to Be”.
Released album “Blue Kentucky Girl”.
Released album “Songs From My Heart”.
Her solo career continued with three major hits, "Happy Birthday", "Blue Kentucky Girl" (later recorded and made a Top 10 hit in the 1970s by Emmylou Harris), and "The Home You're Tearing Down"
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Released album “Before I’m Over You”.
Released album “Loretta Lynn Sings”.
Helped Lynn become the No
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And died of complications associated with emphysema on July 29, 2013
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15-year-old Loretta Webb married 21-year-old Oliver Vanetta Lynn Jr
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On January 10, 1948, 15-year-old Loretta Webb married 21-year-old Oliver Vanetta Lynn Jr. (August 27, 1926 – August 22, 1996), better known as "Doolittle", "Doo", or "Mooney".
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In Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, the oldest daughter and second child of Clara Marie "Clary" (née Ramey; May 5, 1912 – November 24, 1981) and Melvin Theodore "Ted" Webb (June 6, 1906 – February 22, 1959)
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Born 1932-04-14.
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