Sissy Spacek’s portrayal of Lynn won her an Academy Award and the film was also nominated for best picture. “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” also the title of her 1976 book, was made into a 1980 movie of the same name. “We were poor but we had love/That’s the one thing Daddy made sure of/He shoveled coal to make a poor man’s dollar,” she sang. In 1969, she released her autobiographical “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” which helped her reach her widest audience yet. Her biggest hits came in the 1960s and ’70s, including “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” “The Pill,” “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” “Rated X” and “You’re Looking at Country.” 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.
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. Lynn already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background.Īs a songwriter, she crafted a persona of a defiantly tough woman, a contrast to the stereotypical image of most female country singers.
In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lynn’s family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died.
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