There are simply no words.
Loretta Lynn has died.
The family released a statement today (10/4) saying that Lynn died in her sleep at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee today. They have asked for donations, in lieu of flowers, to the Loretta Lynn Foundation, which is an organization she founded in 2006 to promote country music.
What is there to say? She was the squaw-on-the-warpath, fist-city swinging, don’t-come-home-a-drinkin’ warning, pill-taking coal miner’s daughter who came along at the perfect time in country music history, knocking down doors for women singers and women songwriters. Her songs of tough love for a cheating husband were based in reality.
You know the story: how the daughter of a coal miner near Van Lear, Kentucky went through the hard times, becoming a singer and songwriter and going to worldwide fame. The biopic based on her life won Sissy Spacek an Oscar.
Along the way Loretta herself picked up inductions into the Country Music and Nashville Songwriters Halls of Fame, as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement, a Kennedy Center Honors, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
There are simply no words, except….
Thank you, Loretta.
She was 90.
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