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It was announced on Tuesday, the Kentucky coal miner's 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.
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.
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.