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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.

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

Country music has lost one of its most iconic and timeless singers, songwriters and performers. Loretta Lynn has died at the age of 90.

In a statement shared on Twitter, Lynn's family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

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.

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miners daughter who became a pillar of country music, has died. Lynns family said she died Tuesday at her home in Tennessee. She was 90.

In a statement shared on Twitter, Lynn's family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

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...

In a statement shared on Twitter, Lynn's family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

She was 90 years old.