Loretta Lynn
| Loretta Lynn | |
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Lynn in 2005
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Loretta Webb |
| Also known as | The Coal Miner's Daughter The First Lady of Country Music The Queen of Country Music The Honky Tonk Girl The Decca Doll The Blue Kentucky Girl |
| Born |
April 14, 1932 Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, United States |
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| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1960–present |
| Labels | Zero, Decca, MCA, Columbia, Audium, Interscope, Legacy |
| Associated acts | Patsy Cline, Crystal Gayle, The Lynns, Dolly Parton, Peggy Sue, Ernest Tubb, Conway Twitty, Jack White, The Wilburn Brothers, Tammy Wynette |
| Website | www |
Loretta Lynn (née Webb; born April 14, 1932) is an American country music singer-songwriter with multiple gold albums over a career of almost 60 years. She has received numerous awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking role in country music, including awards from both the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music as a duet partner and an individual artist. She is the most awarded female country recording artist and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade (1970s).
Lynn is the second of eight children born to Clara Marie "Clary" (née Ramey; May 5, 1912 – November 24, 1981) and Melvin Theodore "Ted" Webb (October 24, 1906 – February 23, 1959), a coal miner. The Webbs had seven children besides Lynn:
Her father died at the age of 52 of black lung disease, a few years after relocating with Clary and Lynn's younger siblings to Wabash, Indiana.
In January 1948, 15-year-old Loretta married Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn (1926–1996). Their life together inspired the music she wrote.
In 1953 Doolittle bought her a $17 Harmony guitar. She taught herself to play. Over the following three years she worked to improve her guitar playing and with Doolittle's encouragement started her own band, Loretta and the Trailblazers, with her brother Jay Lee playing lead guitar. She often appeared at Bill's Tavern in Blaine, Washington, and the Delta Grange Hall in Custer, Washington, with the Pen Brothers' band and the Westerneers. She cut her first record, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl", in February 1960.
She became a part of the country music scene in Nashville in the 1960s. In 1967 she had the first of 16 number-one hits (out of 70 charted songs as a solo artist and a duet partner). Her later hits include "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", "You Ain't Woman Enough", "Fist City", and "Coal Miner's Daughter".
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