Loretta Lynn, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ icon and country singer, dead at 90

nypost.com:

Country music legend Loretta Lynn has died at the age of 90.The 4-time Grammy winner — whose glittering career spanned six decades — passed away Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

Her family confirmed the news in a statement provided to the Associated Press, but did not disclose a cause of death. Lynn — who was raised in rural Kentucky — became a worldwide sensation with her 1971 track “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”The singer-songwriter — whose own father worked in a coal mine — used her poverty-stricken Appalachian childhood as the basis for dozens of her other hit songs.

The Country Music Hall of Famer also 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’s other hits included “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” and “You’re Looking at Country.”Lynn was born Loretta Webb in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky in 1932 — the second of eight children.

Her father died at the age of 52 from black lung disease which was caused by long-term exposure to coal dust. At the age 15, she married Oliver Vanetta Lynn, taking his surname and officially becoming Loretta Lynn.