Lynn taught herself to play, and began writing her own songs. That's where Doo found out I could sing," she said. Lynn would have four children by the time she was 18. When she was just 13, Loretta met 21-year-old Oliver Lynn, known as Doo. And if I was trying to be somebody else, I'd have never made it, either," she said. "It's whatever I was going through at the time, and whatever I was thinking about at the time," Lynn told "Sunday Morning" in 2010.Īnd even as she rose to become a legend of American music – a three-time Grammy-winner, with 30 Top 10 country albums, and the first woman to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award, in 1972 – she never forgot her roots, as the second of eight children of a coal miner in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. The country legend sang about a life of hardship, poverty, and her husband's infidelity – stories like "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl," "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)," "You Ain't Woman Enough," "What Makes Me Tick," and "Coal Miner's Daughter," whose title became the name of her bestselling 1976 autobiography. If you want to know the story of Loretta Lynn (April 14, 1932-October 4, 2022), listen to her songs. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery. Aaron/Redferns via Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan.
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