Loretta Lynn, coal miner's daughter and country music icon, dies at 90 (msn.com)
She was "getting up there" as dad would have said.
She provided some of the music of my life. And, her movie with Sissy Spacek playing her, "Coal Miner's Daughter" was also a touchstone.
Rest in peace.
The cause of death is not known, for the moment.
Born as Loretta Webb in the remote Appalachian mountain village of Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, she was the second of eight children, and the family lived in a log cabin with wallpaper made out of Sears Roebuck catalog pages. Her early life revolved around the coal mine where her father toiled and the church where she learned to sing. That hardscrabble beginning helped lay the groundwork for her status as the voice of working class women — most famously through her signature 1970 hit, “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” an ode to her father, Melvin Webb, who died of black lung disease 11 years earlier.
She was "getting up there" as dad would have said.
She provided some of the music of my life. And, her movie with Sissy Spacek playing her, "Coal Miner's Daughter" was also a touchstone.
Rest in peace.
The cause of death is not known, for the moment.
Born as Loretta Webb in the remote Appalachian mountain village of Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, she was the second of eight children, and the family lived in a log cabin with wallpaper made out of Sears Roebuck catalog pages. Her early life revolved around the coal mine where her father toiled and the church where she learned to sing. That hardscrabble beginning helped lay the groundwork for her status as the voice of working class women — most famously through her signature 1970 hit, “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” an ode to her father, Melvin Webb, who died of black lung disease 11 years earlier.