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The firebrand singer and songwriter who transformed coal into diamonds by exploring her dirt-poor childhood in eastern Appalachia in her career-defining 1970 hit died on Tuesday, Oct. 4. Her family said that she died from natural causes at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.
Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner's daughter who became a pillar of country music, has died at the age of 90.
Loretta Lynn's frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Loretta Lynn, 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...
Lynn already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background.