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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 died. She was 90.
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…
In a statement shared on Twitter, Lynn's family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.
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Lynn already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background.