She wrote in her autobiography that she was 13 when she got married to Oliver “Mooney” Lynn, but the AP later discovered state records that showed she was 15. People all over this holler can hear you.’ And I said, ‘Daddy, what difference does it make? They are all my cousins.’” “Daddy used to come out on the porch where I would be singing and rocking the babies to sleep. “I was singing when I was born, I think,” she told the AP in 2016. Her younger sister, Crystal Gayle, is also a Grammy-winning country singer, scoring crossover hits with songs like “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” and “Half the Way.” Lynn’s daughter Patsy Lynn Russell also was a songwriter and producer of some of her albums. Her daddy played the banjo, her mama played the guitar and she grew up on the songs of the Carter Family. He wrote in his 2017 book “Johnny’s Cash and Charley’s Pride: Lasting Legends and Untold Adventures in Country Music” that she made up the name for the purposes of the song based on the names of the families that lived there. She literally put the place on the map, according to Peter Cooper, senior director, producer and writer at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Sure makes me feel good that Mama went first so she could welcome Loretta into the hollers of heaven!”īorn Loretta Webb, the second of eight children, she wrote that her birthplace was Butcher Holler, near the coal mining company town of Van Lear in the mountains of east Kentucky.
Now they’re both in Heaven getting to visit and talk about how they were raised, how different country music is now from what it was when they were young. “Strong women, who loved their children and were fiercely loyal. Reba McEntire was among the stars who reacted to Lynn’s death, posting online about how the singer reminded her of her late mother. “Van Lear Rose” was a collaboration with rocker Jack White, who produced the album and played the guitar parts.
Long after her commercial peak, Lynn won two Grammys in 2005 for her album “Van Lear Rose,” which featured 13 songs she wrote, including “Portland, Oregon” about a drunken one-night stand. 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. Her honesty and unique place in country music was rewarded. 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.
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