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White produced Lynn's 2004 album 'Van Lear Rose.'

Rising Irish star CMAT has paid tribute to country singer Loretta Lynn following her death aged 90.

Loretta Lynn, née Loretta Webb, (born April 14, 1932, Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, U.S.—died October 4, 2022, Hurricane Mills, Tennessee), American country music singer who was known as the “Queen of Country.” Loretta Webb was born in a coal miner’s shack. (Although she claimed 1935 as her birth year, various official documents indicate that she was born in 1932.) She married Oliver Lynn in January 1948 and bore the first of six children the next year. In 1960 she released her first single, “Honky Tonk Girl,” which became a hit. In 1962 Loretta Lynn joined the Grand Ole Opry, and by

Lynn, who died Oct. 4, grew up in poverty in eastern Kentucky and went on to have 16 No. 1 hits. Her life story was portrayed in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter. Originally broadcast in 2010.

A "Coal Miner's Daughter" born in Kentucky, Loretta Lynn became the most culturally significant female singer-songwriter in country music history.