Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Country singers pay tribute to Loretta Lynn after being pronounced dead. (Read More Here).
Loretta Lynn, a dirt-poor Kentucky coal miner’s daughter who rose to the greatest heights of international stardom, died Tuesday morning at her home in Tennessee. She was 90.
“Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, Oct. 4, in her sleep at home in her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills,” her family said in a statement.
In April, the country legend celebrated her 90th birthday with well-wishes from musicians all over the world.
“To us, you’re always timeless and ageless and always will be,” Tim McGraw said at the time. Married at 15 to a moonshine runner six years her senior, Oliver “Doolittle” Lynn, Loretta was a mother of four by the time she turned 20. She started writing songs on a $17 guitar her husband bought her and singing in honkytonks to make extra money.
In 1960, she signed her first record deal and released her first single, “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl.” A string of Top 10 hits followed: “Don’t Come Home A’ Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man),” “Fist City.” Many were inspired by her own marital woes.
She was a Grammy, ACM and CMA winner. In 2013 she was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
During the ceremony Obama said Lynn ‘gave voice to a generation, singing what no one wanted to talk about and saying what no one wanted to think about.’
As a songwriter, she crafted a persona of a defiantly tough woman, a contrast to the stereotypical image of most female country singers.
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.
She was known for appearing in floor-length, wide gowns with elaborate embroidery or rhinestones, many created by her longtime personal assistant and designer Tim Cobb.
Her honesty and unique place in country music was rewarded.
She was the first woman ever named entertainer of the year at the genre’s two major awards shows, first by the Country Music Association in 1972 and then by the Academy of Country Music three years later.
It was what I wanted to hear and what I knew other women wanted to hear, too,’ Lynn told the AP in 2016. ‘I didn´t write for the men; I wrote for us women. And the men loved it, too.’
Dolly Parton led the tributes from country stars to the icon as she wrote: ‘So sorry to hear about my sister, friend Loreta.
‘We’ve been like sisters all the years we’ve been in Nashville and she was a wonderful human being, wonderful talent, had millions of fans and I’m one of them. I will miss her dearly as we all will. May she rest in peace.’
Miranda Lambert shared a gallery of snaps with the legend and the caption: ‘I’m so heartbroken to hear about Loretta’s passing.
‘She was so kind to me and she blazed so many trails for all of us girls in country music. Thanks you for all the songs. Miss you. Fly high.’
Loretta was the eldest daughter and second child born to Clara Marie and Melvin Theodore ‘Ted’ Webb who shared eight total.
Her father was a coal miner and subsistence farmer who died at age 52 of black lung disease in February 1959.
In 1969, she released her autobiographical Coal Miner’s Daughter, which helped her reach her widest audience yet.
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