Loretta Lynn

Country music icon Loretta Lynn died at the age of 90 and the singer had reportedly planned her funeral service before her death.

The Grammy winner reportedly also asked her children and grandchildren to perform at her funeral. She was reportedly planning to put one of her Nashville homes up for sale. [WKRN.com](https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/surreal-loretta-lynn-laid-to-rest/) reported that Loretta was laid to rest on Friday, October 7th, on her ranch grounds in Hurricane Mills. “She wants all of her fans to be able to attend, and there’s plenty of room at the ranch.” As per the outlet, her friends revealed at the time that the singer was settling her estate before her death. [Loretta Lynn](/en-gb/topic/loretta-lynn/) passed away at the age of 90 on Tuesday, October 4th, and the renowned singer had reportedly planned her funeral service before her death.

At the peak of her fame in the 1960s and 1970s, Lynn was part of a key change in the politics of country music — a change akin to the shifting partisan ...

That would have thrown the election to the House of Representatives, where the outcome was far from clear. He did win two Southern states, and had he won a few more he could have denied Nixon needed to win an outright majority in the Electoral College. In the years of Lynn's early career, in the 1960s and 1970s, when those folk and rock heroes were increasingly identified with causes of the left, the issues drove away many traditional Democrats. Lynn was always about the private pride made public, and the sweetness of the bond. For generations, those voters had been the bedrock of the Democratic Party. With the Great Depression and the New Deal in the 1930s, Democrats had greater appeal in the rest of rural America, even while remaining strongest in the rural South. Before World War II, country music was often called "hillbilly," according to the authoritative historian of the genre, Bill C. Country music artists seemed to be circling the wagons in defense of America as they – and their fans – remembered it. Trump was able to tap the feisty, often defensive spirit that has long informed the Appalachian region (broadly defined) that spawned much of what Americans came to call "country western." Bush had been born in New England and raised in Washington, D.C., as the son of a senator from Connecticut, Bush went from a super-elite private prep school to Yale. After Navy service and a few years in Midland, Texas, setting up an oil business, he moved to the Silk Stocking section of Houston and from there back to Washington, where he was a member of Congress, director of the CIA, chairman of the Republican Party and Ronald Reagan's vice president. (The 2016 Democratic nominee had alienated some country music fans with what seemed a slighting reference to the phrase "Stand By Your Man," the title of Tammy Wynette's ethos-defining song about marriage.

According to WKRN, around 100 guests gathered for a private graveside burial service as the country music icon was laid to rest next to her late husband, Oliver ...

She joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1962. As they laid mom to rest beside my daddy we held one another, arm in arm and sang, ‘I was born a coal miners daughter in a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler.’” She has won four GRAMMY awards, seven American Music Awards and eight Country Music Association awards. [passed away](https://countrynow.com/breaking-country-music-icon-loretta-lynn-dies-at-age-90/) peacefully on Tuesday morning at the age of 90. Lynn has also garnered every accolade available in music from GRAMMY awards to induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Following her death, fans flocked to Hurricane Mills to pay their respects at a memorial outside of the mansion gates on the property.

Along with being a church pastor, my dad was a poet and songwriter. For several years during the 1970s he would drive almost weekly to his native Nashville ...

Regarded by many as the queen of country music, Loretta Lynn championed the voices of working class women and broke taboos with her lyrics, ...

The star was then absent from the music scene for 15 years while caring for her husband until his death in 1996. She released I'm A Honky Tonk Girl in 1960 and signed with Zero Records. Lynn's early tracks centred on domestic frustrations and her husband's violence, which she attributed to hard drinking.

Loretta: Originally named Loretta Webb, Lynn entered the world on April 14, 1932, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. Clara Marie and Melvin Theodore were her ...

Lynn and her husband raised a brood of six children. Betty Sue Lynn passed away in 2013, and Jack Benny Lynn was born after their deaths. was established in 1973 to handle Lynn’s corporate affairs, Lynn took on the role of president. By the time his wife was 19, the couple had three children. After teaching herself guitar, Lynn started her band Loretta and the Trailblazers and played at open mic nights and other places around Washington. Having served in the United States Army during World War II, he was uninterested in coal mining upon his return. Lynn bought his wife her first guitar, set up her first radio performances, and served as her de facto talent manager for many years during their difficult 48 years of marriage. The history of country music will never forget her as the woman who won the most awards. She wrote the best-selling autobiography “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film starring Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones as her husband, Doolittle Lynn. Throughout her decades-long career in country music, Loretta Lynn scored countless hits and won multiple Grammy Awards. Loretta Lynn passed away at her property in Hurricane Hills, Tennessee, on October 4, 2022. Here’s a look at how old was Doolittle Lynn when he married Loretta.

Lynn, who died Oct. 4, grew up in poverty in eastern Kentucky and went on to have 16 No. 1 hits. Justin Chang reviews Bros. Bloom talks about Crazy ...

Bros means to send you out of the theater in a good mood — and it does. 4, grew up in poverty in eastern Kentucky and went on to have 16 No. Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends.

Those recordings bring in about $440,000 in publishing revenue. Among her catalog, “Coal Miner's Daughter,” “You Ain't Women Enough” and “Don't Come Home a ...

While Lynn’s most popular tunes account for 55% of song equivalent activity in the U.S., those top three songs — “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “You Ain’t Woman Enough” and “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” — were responsible for generating about 27% of her total global publishing revenue, Billboard estimates. And her publishing earnings likely also included fees for administering songs she co-wrote and possibly some of the publishing for other other songs on her albums that she didn’t have a hand in writing. Among her catalog, “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “You Ain’t Women Enough” and “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” — all from the first 12 years of Lynn’s career — account for more than half of her music consumption in the U.S., according to Luminate, based on 2021 song-equivalent activity that quantifies combined sales and streams. “Coal Miner’s Daughter” is the favorite with 93,000 song units, followed by “You Ain’t Women Enough” with 61,000 song units and “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” with 40,000 units. For the years later in her career when she owned her publishing, Billboard estimates her publishing comes to $196,000. Lynn’s recordings — which are largely owned by Universal Music Group through deals she struck with Decca and MCA, before leaving to work with a variety of labels in the 1990s and onward — generated about $1.18 million in revenue last year, based on Billboard’s estimates.

Keith Urban used his concert in Nashville on Oct. 7 to honor Loretta Lynn and welcome guest Luke Combs.

The concert concluded in a shower of confetti and cheers from the audience as he exited the stage, returning shortly after to perform “Stupid Boy” accompanied only by his guitar. Hubbard’s opening slot for Urban marks his first as a solo artist, having spent 12 years as half of the duo Florida Georgia Line. As the light from thousands of cell phones quickly bathed the room in a soft glow, Urban said, “This is proof positive that what we can’t do alone, we can do together. As is part and parcel of an Urban show, he took time to read various signs that fans held up around the arena, and grabbed a pair of binoculars to see signs in the furthest reaches of the venue. But that electric, live-wire connection between Urban and his fans doesn’t only rely on gifts and onstage photos — just as often, it was simply Urban’s bold willingness to be vulnerable enough with his audience to share unpolished, silly moments — another signal of the trust Urban has painstakingly built with his fans over the years. Hubbard most often handled lead vocal duties for FGL, so even his solo renderings of the duo’s biggest hits sounded familiar to fans. As he strained the final notes from his acoustic guitar, he signed it and slowly lowered it into the crowd gathered around the small stage, gifting it to an audience member. Throughout the evening, he showcased his supple-yet-commanding tenor, which easily swooped and soared through that range of music. The decibel levels inside the building ratcheted, as Combs performed “When It Rains It Pours,” later taking on Eric Church’s vocal role on the 2015 Urban/Church collaboration “Raise ‘Em Up.” Over the nearly four decades Urban has spent honing his craft, from playing tiny clubs to sold-out arenas, it’s clear that his own passion for music and performing hasn’t dimmed. so tonight we are going to be highlighting the journey from places like that to those who play Nissan Stadium.” 7) as part of Urban’s The Speed of Now World Tour.

While that sensibility is most notable in her hits, it extends far beyond her radio staples, deep into her album cuts and one-offs. Below, we're going through ...

One of many duets Lynn did with Conway Twitty, “I Still Believe in Waltzes” is perhaps their most loved-up. In the same vein as “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “They Don’t Make ‘Em Like My Daddy Anymore” is an ode to the love Lynn felt from her father growing up. It’s just one example of the empowerment, Lynn infused into all of her songs.

The late Loretta Lynn - pioneer of country music and FORCE of women's empowerment. Any conversation of Loretta Lynn's greatest (and most controversial) ...

She sang songs that were not necessarily appropriate at times, like this for me.” In fact, the song likely originated from Loretta’s own tumultuous marriage, as many of her songs did. And contrary to what Loretta knew the men would think about a post-divorcee female, her lyrics staunchly disagree.

I was borned a coal miner's daughter,. In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler. We were poor but we had love,. That's the one thing that daddy made sure of,.

But she took all of its punches standing up, absorbing the hard knocks, and giving them back to the world as melodies of hope. She landed her first hit in 1967, and her name was never absent from the charts for the next six decades. But this was only the first of many glass ceilings shattered by the feisty lady from the hills of Kentucky. She taught us to receive whatever dark obstacles Providence lays in our path as diamonds in the rough. She is recognized by such luminaries as Dolly Parton, Kathy Mattea, Martina McBride, and Carrie Underwood as a trailblazer for women in the country music industry. He was among the first to recognize her talents as a vocalist, and even encouraged her to pursue a career in music. But he also was the inspiration behind many of her greatest and most iconic hits, the first of which was titled, “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind).” Loretta Webb was born to a dirt-poor family from the Appalachian hills of Johnson County, Kentucky. She sang songs about husbands who loved, but always the wrong woman. She sang about the melancholy that accompanies unwanted pregnancies. Some have the mistaken impression that authentic country music always includes such things as trains and old dogs and mammas. Although she held pride of place among Nashville’s royalty, Loretta Lynn wasn’t born to it.

Lynn's songs defied societal expectations by connecting her musical representations of working-class and rural women to broader social issues affecting ...

Lynn gave them a social and political voice, and helped make country music a genre relevant to the complexities of women’s lives. Lynn’s legacy lives on in the music of female country artists – such as [The Conversation](https://theconversation.com) under a Creative Commons license. Nonetheless, the recording became her biggest seller in 1975 and furthered Lynn’s reputation as a spokeswoman for white rural working-class women. It also addressed the right for women to take control over their bodies and reproduction. It was a rare foray into the topic of women’s reproductive rights for country music. Meanwhile, the song arrangements of Owen Bradley of Decca Records directed Lynn’s musical talents to a broad audience. She grew up in poverty in a small Kentucky mining town, marrying and starting a family as a teenager before reaching unprecedented heights of commercial success as a recording artist of modern country music. “Personally, I think you should prevent unwanted pregnancy rather than get an abortion. In typical fashion, though, Lynn approached the issue from the perspective of a rural working-class woman: [Kitty Wells](https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-kitty-wells-20120717-story.html), [Jean Shepard](https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/09/25/country-music-hall-famer-jean-shepard-dead-82/76568704/) and other women in country music who were willing to speak up about the concerns of American women. [death at the age of 90](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/arts/music/loretta-lynn-dead.html) marks the end of a remarkable life of achievement in country music.

Her bold and forthright songs laid bare the double standards of gender roles.

Lynn gave them a social and political voice, and helped make country music a genre relevant to the complexities of women’s lives. Lynn’s legacy lives on in the music of female country artists — such as Nonetheless, the recording became her biggest seller in 1975 and furthered Lynn’s reputation as a spokeswoman for white rural working-class women. It also addressed the right for women to take control over their bodies and reproduction. It was a rare foray into the topic of women’s reproductive rights for country music. Meanwhile, the song arrangements of Owen Bradley of Decca Records directed Lynn’s musical talents to a broad audience. Fully aware that her personalized accounts became political messages for her fan base of women, Lynn co-wrote and recorded “The Pill“ in 1975. Lynn’s rise in the 1960s took place when country music appeared tied to conservative politics. [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Her dramatic life story — retold in the 1980 film “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” based on Lynn’s 1976 biography — made Lynn a household name. “Personally, I think you should prevent unwanted pregnancy rather than get an abortion. But as a scholar of gender and country music and author of “Hillbilly Maidens, Okies and Cowgirls: Women’s Country Music, 1930-1960,” I know that Lynn represented more than just star power and fame in country music — she spoke to the concerns of women, especially white working-class women in rural and suburban America.

Loretta Lynn was buried in her family cemetery on her sprawling Hurricane Mills estate in West Tennessee. The country music star died Oct. 4.

The home in the 200 block of 24th Avenue N., near Music Row, is worth about $1 million. She also built a museum and replica of the Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, cabin where she grew up for tourists to visit. "The family did have a private ceremony Friday with no other details available to share at this time."

Keith Urban played two iconic Loretta Lynn songs at his concert in Nashville.

[Blue Ain't Your Color](https://www.iheart.com/artist/keith-urban-28475/?autoplay=true)" singer bring out local powerhouse Kayley Green and superstar [Luke Combs](https://country.iheart.com/content/2022-09-26-luke-combs-shares-the-sweet-reason-hed-rather-facetime-than-text/) at his Nashville show on Friday (October 7) night, but he spent several minutes paying a heartfelt tribute to the late Loretta Lynn. "We love you, Loretta," Urban said. [Wynonna Judd](https://country.iheart.com/content/2022-10-04-wynonna-judd-mourns-loss-of-loretta-lynn-loretta-was-like-an-aunt-to-me/), [Shania Twain](https://country.iheart.com/content/2022-10-04-shania-twain-honors-loretta-lynn-her-strides-in-country-music/), [Carrie Underwood](https://country.iheart.com/content/2022-10-04-carrie-underwood-remembers-when-loretta-lynn-smacked-me-on-the-rear-end/), [Tanya Tucker](https://country.iheart.com/content/2022-10-05-brandi-carlile-loretta-lynn-is-an-example-for-women-in-country-music/) and [Dolly Parton](https://country.iheart.com/content/2022-10-04-dolly-parton-pens-heartfelt-tribute-to-her-late-sister-loretta-lynn/) are among those who paid tributes to the woman who acted like a mother, aunt and sister. "Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home at her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills. [Loretta Lynn](https://country.iheart.com/content/2022-10-04-loretta-lynn-remembered-as-an-absolute-icon-a-beautiful-soul/) songs, " [Blue Kentucky Girl](https://www.iheart.com/artist/loretta-lynn-39529/?autoplay=true)" and "If You're Looking At Country" — and when he did, photos of the late trailblazer grazed the screen, according to [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/music/country/keith-urban-loretta-lynn-tribute-luke-combs-nasvhille-concert-review-1235152918/). The family has asked for privacy during this time, as they grieve.

Family and friends said farewell to country music icon Loretta Lynn on Friday as she was laid to rest on her ranch grounds in Hurricane Mills.

All that hard work paid off, because the single ultimately became her first radio hit, as it peaked at #14 on the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart… not too shabby ...

pure, raw and authentic talent, and the drive to stick with it and tell their truth no matter what it took. We’d hit them all. “We were pitiful… We didn’t care if it was a 500-watt local station or a 50,000-watt clear-channel station. [promoting her very first single](https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2022/10/07/loretta-lynn-on-the-honesty-in-her-music-i-was-writing-about-things-that-nobody-talked-about-in-public-and-i-didnt-realize-they-didnt/) “Honky Tonk Girl,” just trying to get anyone to play the song. [Loretta Lynn](http://whiskeyriff.com/tag/loretta-lynn) sadly [passed away on Tuesday morning](https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2022/10/04/country-music-icon-loretta-lynn-dead-at-90/) at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, at the age of 90.

Loretta Lynn, who has died aged 90, was hailed as the queen of country music, along with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette, for almost six decades.

“I heard that one girl singer got cancelled out Down South after giving a little peck to a black friend on television,” she later said. Fifty-one of her songs were top 10 country hits. Not long after, she was singing with her own band. Producer Owen Bradley likened her to “the female Hank Williams. Loretta cried as a child when the family hog chewed the only dress she owned that had not been made from flour sacks. Her 1978 hit We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby was sexual politics and female empowerment set to a great country tune: “From now on, lover-boy, it’s fifty-fifty, all the way.”