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Loretta Lynn Dies: Country Icon And Coal Miner’s Daughter Was 90

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Loretta Lynn, the country music icon who groundbreaking songs dealt candidly with poverty, women’s struggles and, in the great song “Coal Miner’s Daughter” her own life, died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

She was 90. Her death was announced by her family. In a statement, Lynn’s family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. “Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home at her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills,” the statement reads.

One of the greatest female singer-songwriters in country music history – arguable the greatest, certainly the most influential – Lynn chronicled her life and struggles over the course of a 60-year career, both in song and in the 1976 autobiography that became a hit 1980 movie – both titled Coal Miner’s Daughter – that earned Sissy Spacek an Oscar for her performance as Lynn.

Tommy Lee Jones portrayed husband of 48 years Oliver Vanetta “Doolittle” Lynn, also known as Mooney. Among Lynn’s classic songs, many told from the standpoint of a strong woman in a man’s world and some, like “The Pill,” offering controversial feminist slants unusual for country music of the era, are “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” “Fist City,” “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” “One’s On The Way,” and many others.

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