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By Bill Trott , (Reuters) - Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter and moonshiner's wife who became one of American country music's biggest stars and...

Lynn already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background.

The Kentucky coal miner’s daughter, whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90.

Legend built her stardom not only on her music but also on her image as a symbol of rural pride and determination

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner's daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachi...

Over her groundbreaking half-century career, Lynn, who died on Tuesday at 90, could embody both the pain of betrayal and the thirst for revenge.

It was announced on Tuesday, the Kentucky coal miners daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music died.

By Bill Trott , (Reuters) - Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter and moonshiner's wife who became one of American country music's biggest stars and...

Loretta Lynn, who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing to become the most culturally significant female artist in country music history, died Tuesday at 90.

Her daddy played the banjo, her mama played the guitar and she grew up on the songs of the Carter Family. Read more at Boston.com.