Loretta Lynn Dead: A singer was the daughter of a coal miner 90

Loretta Lynn, who grew up from her poor childhood in the Kentucky coalfields to become a leading country music star, is dead. She was 90 years old. Associated Press The news was reported.

Memorably portrayed in her Academy Award-winning role by Sissy Spacek in the 1980 film The Coal Miner’s Daughter (adapted from the 1976 best-selling autobiography, co-written by George Vesey), Lynn was one of the first women Who rose to stardom as a vocalist.

Dominating the charts in the 1960s (when she was the most popular country singer on the chart) and 1970s (when she was second only to Dolly Parton), she achieved 11 #1 hits on her own and five other chart-toppers with Conway Tweety, her regular ’70s duo partner. . In total, she charted 51 top 10 singles.

Unlike most of her contemporaries, she wrote a great deal of her material, beginning with her first chart-topping, 1960’s “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl.” In addition to her tapering songs that tackled traditional honky-tonk themes like infidelity and divorce from a woman’s point of view (a rarity in the country), she’s written numbers that fearlessly discuss contemporary topics ranging from the Vietnam War to contraception.

Although Lynn’s successes ceased after the early 1980s, she remained a beloved and revered figure.

Lane was widely believed to be the model for Barbara Jane, the sensitive and tragic fantasy country star in Robert Altman’s 1975 film “Nashville,” set in Music City. Singer and actress Ronnie Blakely received Oscar, Golden Globe, and Grammy nominations for her work in the role.

Although Lynne, like her doppelganger, has often been sidetracked by illness throughout her career, she has remained active as a musician and recording artist into the new millennium, receiving a fresh boost as a septuagenarian.

In 2004, she recorded a new album “Van Leer Rose” with producer and guitarist Jack White of the band White Stripes. The group won two Grammy Awards and introduced it to a new audience of young rock listeners.

Loretta Webb was born in Butcher Houler, Kentucky, the second of eight children; Her younger sister, Brenda Gill, is also known for her role as country star, Crystal Gale. Her father, a coal miner, later died of black lung disease.

At the age of 15, after enduring a life of extreme poverty, she married Army vet and local hero Oliver Lane (who was later known to the singer’s fans by his nicknames “Doolittle” and “Money”). The couple left Kentucky for Washington State, where they raised four children together.

Encouraged by her manager husband to play guitar and sing, Lin began performing in local clubs, sometimes supported by her brother Jay Lee Webb. In Tacoma, she was discovered by Norm Burley, who ran the Vancouver-based independent Zero Records.

Lane’s debut single for Zero, “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl”, was recorded in Hollywood in February 1960 with a crack band that included steel guitarist Roy Lanham and steel pedalist Speedy West. The song climbed to #14 on the US chart and established Lynn as an exciting new sound in country music.

After a stint as an experimental artist and in-house songwriter for the publishing company Wellborn Brothers, Lynn and her husband moved to Nashville, where she was signed to the country’s powerful Decca Records and placed under the tutelage of producer Owen Bradley.

Her number 6 single in 1962 opened a string of hit songs that made her, for a time, the only real competitor to the country’s only superstar, Kitty Wells. (Lane’s only contemporary competitor, fellow Bradley official Patsy Cline, was killed in a plane crash in March 1963.)

Lynn’s top ten posts included “Before I’m Over You” (No. 4, 1963), “Wine Women and Song” and “Happy Birthday” (both No. 3, 1964) and the autobiographical “Blue Kentucky Girl” (No. 7, 1965, and No. 6 cover in 1979 by Emilio Harris). She has also been memorably paired with her idol, Texas Honky Tonker Ernest Taub, in a series of early singles.

She followed her stride in the late ’60s with several major hits, many penned by himself, some inspired by her often errant husband. She started in 1966 with the local Vietnam song “Dear Uncle Sam” (No. 4) and the soulful song “You Ain’t Woman Enough” (No. 2), then recorded her first song that year in her very personal style. Composition “Don’t Come Home a’Drinkin’ (With Love on Your Mind).” “Fist City” (1968) and “Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)” (1969) succeeded at the top.

“The Coal Mine’s Daughter,” the autobiographical song that gave her memoir its title, reached number one in 1970; Her longest single, “One’s On the Way” (No. 1 for 16 weeks), followed up a year later.

That same year, Lynn was first paired with Twitty, one of Decca’s male hitmakers. Their 14 singles together included a series of five number one duets in 1971-1975: “After the Fire Is Gone” (Grammy Award winner for Best Country Duo/Group Performance), “Lead Me On”, “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man” , ‘As soon as I hang up the phone’ and ‘Velin’.

Lynn went on to record as a solo artist with memorable singles such as “Rated X” for Divorce (No. 1, 1972), the controversial look at birth control “The Pill” (No. 5, 1975) and “She Got You” (cover for the hit Patsy Cline) and “Out of My Head and Back in My Bed”, both of which reached #1 in 1977.

The critical and popular success of Michael Apted’s “The Coal Mine’s Daughter” helped elevate her to legend status. But her voice increasingly grew out of sync with contemporary tastes, and her last 10 songs, “I’m Lying” were recorded in 1982.

She separated from MCA Records in 1988 – fittingly, her last album to the label was a duet with Twitty – and would not appear as a solo on a major label for 16 years. However, she collaborated with fellow co-stars Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynnet for the Columbia album “Honky Tonk Angels” in 1993.

Lynn has been busy with herself as a live performer. She also ran a studio and museum in her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. and sponsored an annual motocross racing championship. In the early 1990s, he reined in her party schedule to care for her ailing husband, who died in August 1996; The couple had been married for 48 years.

The new millennium began with an album, “Still Country,” for independent Audium Records in Nashville. However, it was only when she teamed up with longtime fan Jack White that she garnered new attention and respect when she teamed up in 2004 at the age of 72. 13 new songs sporting either written or co-written by Lynn, “Van Lear Rose” collected the Grammys in 2005 as Best Country Album, while the single “Portland Oregon” was named Best Country Collaboration for Lynn and White.

Lynn was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 and received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2003. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy in 2010.

Lynn’s revival continued late in his career with the 2016 album “Full Circle,” which was co-produced by her daughter Patsy Lynn Russell and John Carter Cash, son of Johnny Cash. A new album titled “Wouldn’t It Be Great” was released in 2017.

She is survived by four daughters and a son. Another son, Jack, accidentally drowned in 1984.



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