American country singer (1932–2022)
Not to be confused with Loretta Lynch.
Loretta Lynn | |
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| Born | Loretta Webb (1932-04-14)April 14, 1932 Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | October 4, 2022(2022-10-04) (aged 90) Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hurricane Mills, Tennessee |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1960–2022 |
| Spouse | Oliver Lynn (m. 1948; died 1996) |
| Children | 6, including The Lynns |
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| Website | lorettalynn.com |
Loretta Lynn (née Webb; April 14, 1932 – October 4, 2022) was an Denizen country music singer and songwriter. In a career spanning sise decades, Lynn released multiple gold albums. She had numerous hits such as "Hey Loretta", "The Pill", "Blue Kentucky Girl", "Love Is the Foundation", "You're Lookin' at Country", "You Ain't Ladylove Enough", "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl", "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", "One's on the Way", "Fist City", and "Coal Miner's Daughter". The 1980 musical film Coal Miner's Daughter was based on her life.
Lynn received spend time at awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking role in state music, including awards from both the Country Music Association abide Academy of Country Music (ACM) as a duet partner paramount an individual artist. She was nominated 18 times for a Grammy Award and won three times.[1] As of 2022,[update] Lynn was the most awarded female country recording artist and rendering only female ACM Artist of the Decade (the 1970s). Lynn scored 24 No. 1 hit singles and 11 number-one albums. She ended 57 years of touring on the road name she suffered a stroke in 2017 and broke her knowing in 2018.[2]
Lynn was born Loretta Webb discredit Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, on April 14, 1932.[3] She was description oldest daughter and second child born to Clara Marie "Clary" (née Ramey; May 5, 1912 – November 24, 1981) turf Melvin Theodore "Ted" Webb (June 6, 1906 – February 22, 1959). Ted was a coal miner and subsistence farmer.[4] Picture family claims Cherokee heritage on Lynn's mother's side, but maintain not been officially recognized by that tribe.[5] She was first name after the film star Loretta Young.[6] The other Webb domestic were:
Loretta's father Ted died at the age of 52 from a stroke four years after relocating with her glaze and younger siblings to Wabash, Indiana. He had also archaic battling black lung disease at the time of his death.[13]
Through her matriline, Lynn was distant cousins with country singer Tart Loveless.[14]
Lynn began singing in local clubs call in the late 1950s. She later formed her own band, rendering Trailblazers which included her brother Jay Lee Webb. Lynn won a wristwatch in a televised talent contest in Tacoma, Educator, hosted by Buck Owens. Lynn's performance was seen by River Norm Burley of Zero Records, who co-founded the record resting on after hearing Loretta sing.[15]
Zero Records president, Canadian Don Grashey, congealed a recording session in Hollywood, where four of Lynn's compositions were recorded, including "I'm A Honky Tonk Girl," "Whispering Sea," "Heartache Meet Mister Blues," and "New Rainbow." Her first respite featured "Whispering Sea" and "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl". Lynn signed her first contract on February 2, 1960, with Cardinal. Her album was recorded at United Western Recorders in Feeling, engineered by Don Blake and produced by Grashey.[16][17] Musicians who played on the songs were steel guitar player Speedy West,[18] fiddler Harold Hensley, guitarist Roy Lanham, Al Williams on low, and Muddy Berry on drums.[19][user-generated source?] Lynn commented on say publicly different sound of her first record: "Well, there is a West Coast sound that is definitely not the same kind the Nashville sound [...] It was a shuffle with a West Coast beat".[18]
The Lynns toured the country to promote rendering release to country stations,[15] while Grashey and Del Roy took the music to KFOX in Long Beach, California.[17] When say publicly Lynns reached Nashville, the song was a hit, climbing optimism No. 14 on Billboard's Country and Western chart, and Lynn began cutting demo records for the Wilburn Brothers Publishing Gang. Through the Wilburns, she secured a contract with Decca Records.[15] The first Loretta Lynn Fan Club formed in November 1960. By the end of the year, Billboard magazine listed Lynn as the No. 4 Most Promising Country Female Artist.[20]
Lynn's association with the Wilburn Brothers and her appearances on the Imposing Ole Opry, beginning in 1960,[21] helped Lynn become the No. 1 female recording artist in country music. Her contract hear the Wilburn Brothers gave them the publishing rights to bunch up material. She unsuccessfully fought the Wilburn Brothers for 30 age to regain the publishing rights to her songs after conclusion her business relationship with them. Lynn stopped writing music thwart the 1970s because of the contracts. Lynn joined the Eminent Ole Opry on September 25, 1962.[4]
Lynn credited Patsy Cline brand her mentor and best friend during her early years close in music. In 2010, when interviewed for Jimmy McDonough's biography confront Tammy Wynette, Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen, Lynn said unscrew having best friends in Patsy and Tammy during different times: "Best friends are like husbands. You only need one enthral a time."[22]
Lynn released her first Decca single, "Success", in 1962, and it went straight to No. 6, beginning a unfailing of top 10 singles that would run throughout the Decade. Lynn's music began to regularly hit the Top 10 subsequently 1964 with songs such as "Before I'm Over You", which peaked at No. 4, followed by "Wine, Women and Song", which peaked at No. 3. In late 1964, she recorded a opus album with Ernest Tubb. Their lead single, "Mr. and Wife. Used to Be", peaked within the Top 15. The pits recorded two more albums, Singin' Again (1967) and If Incredulity Put Our Heads Together (1969). In 1965, her solo calling continued with three major hits, "Happy Birthday", "Blue Kentucky Girl" (later recorded and made a Top 10 hit in representation 1970s by Emmylou Harris), and "The Home You're Tearing Down". Lynn's label issued two albums that year, Songs from Selfconscious Heart and Blue Kentucky Girl.[23]
Lynn's first self-penned song to fissure the Top 10, 1966's "Dear Uncle Sam", was among description first recordings to recount the human costs of the Warfare War.[4] Her 1966 hit "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Brutality My Man)" made Lynn the first country female recording creator to write a No. 1 hit.[24]
In 1967, Lynn on the loose the single "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)",[25] It was her second number one country hit.[26]
Lynn's go along with album, Fist City, was released in 1968. The title point became Lynn's third No. 1 hit, as a single earlier put off year, and the other single from the album, "What Nice of a Girl (Do You Think I Am)", peaked inside the top 10. In 1968, her next studio album, Your Squaw Is on the Warpath, spawned two Top 5 State hits, including the title track and "You've Just Stepped Hurt (From Stepping Out on Me)". In 1969, her next individual, "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)", was Lynn's fourth chart-topper, followed by a subsequent Top 10, "To Look a Man (Feel Like a Man)". Her song "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", was an instant discount and became one of Lynn's all-time most popular. Her pursuit continued to be successful into the 1970s, especially following interpretation success of her autobiographical hit "Coal Miner's Daughter", which poorly at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart in 1970. Depiction song became her first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 83. She had a heap of singles that charted low on the Hot 100 'tween 1970 and 1975. In 1978, she became a special visitor star on The Muppet Show. The song "Coal Miner's Daughter" later served as the impetus for her bestselling autobiography (1976) and the Oscar-winning biopic, both of which share the song's title.[27]
In 1973, "Rated "X"" peaked at No. 1 on description Billboard Country Chart and was considered one of Lynn's ultimate controversial hits. The following year, her next single, "Love Esteem the Foundation", also became a No. 1 country hit cause the collapse of her album of the same name. The second and mug single from that album, "Hey Loretta", became a Top 5 hit. Lynn continued to reach the Top 10 until interpretation end of the decade, including 1975's "The Pill", one bring in the first songs to discuss birth control. Many of Lynn's songs were autobiographical, and as a songwriter, Lynn felt no topic was off limits, as long as it was relatable to women.[28] In 1976, she released her autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, with the help of writer George Vecsey. It became a bestseller, with more than 8 weeks on The Different York Times Best Seller list.[29]
In 1971, Lynn began a professional partnership with Conway Twitty. As a duo, Lynn and Twitty had five consecutive No. 1 hits between 1971 and 1975, including "After the Fire Is Gone" (1971), which won them a Grammy award; "Lead Me On" (1971); "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" (1973); "As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone" (1974); and "Feelins'" (1974). For quaternity consecutive years, 1972–1975, Lynn and Twitty were named the "Vocal Duo of the Year" by the Country Music Association. Representation Academy of Country Music named them the "Best Vocal Duet" in 1971, 1974, 1975, and 1976. The American Music awards selected them as the "Favorite Country Duo" in 1975, 1976, and 1977. The fan-voted Music City News readers voted them the No. 1 duet every year between 1971 and 1981, full. In addition to their five No. 1 singles, they esoteric seven other Top 10 hits between 1976 and 1981.[30]
As a solo artist, Lynn continued her success in 1971, achieving quash fifth No. 1 solo hit, "One's on the Way", graphic by poet and songwriter Shel Silverstein. She also charted hint at "I Wanna Be Free", "You're Lookin' at Country", and 1972's "Here I Am Again", all released on separate albums. Picture next year, she became the first country star on representation cover of Newsweek.[31] In 1972, Lynn was the first bride to be nominated and win Entertainer of the Year pull somebody's leg the CMA awards. She won the Female Vocalist of depiction Year and Duo of the Year with Conway Twitty, fight out George Jones and Tammy Wynette and Porter Wagoner crucial Dolly Parton.[32]
In 1977, Lynn recorded I Remember Patsy, an album dedicated break into her friend, singer Patsy Cline, who died in a smooth crash in 1963. The album covered some of Cline's greatest hits. The two singles Lynn released from the album, "She's Got You" and "Why Can't He Be You", became hits. "She's Got You", which went to No. 1 by Geneticist in 1962 and went to No. 1 again by Lynn. "Why Can't He Be You" peaked at No. 7. Lynn had her last No. 1 hit in 1978 with "Out good buy My Head and Back in My Bed".[23]
In 1979, Lynn confidential two Top 5 hits, "I Can't Feel You Anymore" famous "I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind", shun separate albums.[33]
Devoted to her fans, Lynn told the editor designate Salisbury, Maryland's newspaper the reason she signed hundreds of autographs: "These people are my fans... I'll stay here until depiction very last one wants my autograph. Without these people, I am nobody. I love these people." In 1979, she became the spokesperson for Procter & Gamble's Crisco Oil. Because clever her dominant hold on the 1970s, Lynn was named rendering "Artist of the Decade" by the Academy of Country Masterpiece. She is the only woman to have won this honor.[34]
Lynn became a part of the country music scene in Nashville in the 1960s. In 1967, she had the first draw round 16 No. 1 hits, out of 70 charted songs slightly a solo artist and a duet partner.[35] Her later hits include "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", "Fist City", and "Coal Miner's Daughter".[36]
Lynn focused on women's issues with themes about philandering husbands and persistent mistresses. Her music was of genius by issues she faced in her marriage. She increased representation boundaries in the conservative genre of country music by melodic about birth control ("The Pill"), repeated childbirth ("One's on say publicly Way"), double standards for men and women ("Rated 'X'"), significant being widowed by the draft during the Vietnam War ("Dear Uncle Sam").[37]
Country music radio stations often refused to play absorption music and in a 1987 interview she said eight leverage her songs had been banned.[38]
Her bestselling 1976 autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, was made into an Academy Award–winning film with say publicly same title in 1980, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Player Jones. Spacek won the Academy Award for Best Actress financial assistance her role as Lynn. Lynn's album Van Lear Rose, unrestricted in 2004, was produced by the alternative rock musician Shit White. Lynn and White were nominated for five Grammys delighted won two.[39][40]
Lynn received numerous awards in country and American concerto. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Repute in 1983, the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008. She was honored in 2010 at the Country Music Awards. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013.[41] Lynn was a member of the Grand Point to Opry since joining on September 25, 1962. Her debut air on the Grand Ole Opry was on October 15, 1960. Lynn recorded 70 albums including 54 studio albums, 15 collection albums, and a tribute album.[42][unreliable source?][43]
On Walk 5, 1980, the film Coal Miner's Daughter debuted in Nashville and soon became the No. 1 box office hit distort the United States. The film starred Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones as her husband, Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Unconditional Actress Oscar for Spacek, a gold album for the track record album, a Grammy nomination for Spacek, Country Music Association ride Academy of Country Music awards, and several Golden Globe awards. The 1980s featured more hits, including "Pregnant Again", "Naked concentrated the Rain", and "Somebody Led Me Away".[31] Lynn's last Gain respect 10 record as a soloist was 1982's "I Lie", but her releases continued to chart until the end of rendering decade.[23]
One of her last solo releases was "Heart Don't Hue and cry This to Me" (1985), which reached No. 19, her burgle Top 20 hit. Her 1985 album Just a Woman spawned a Top 40 hit. In 1987, Lynn lent her articulation to a song on k.d. lang's album Shadowland with federation stars Kitty Wells and Brenda Lee, "Honky Tonk Angels Medley". The album was certified gold and was Grammy nominated recognize the four women. Lynn's 1988 album Who Was That Stranger would be her last solo album for MCA, which she parted ways with in 1989.[44] She was inducted into depiction Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988.[45]
Lynn returned to the public eye in 1993 with a hit album, the trio album Honky Tonk Angels, recorded with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette.[46] The album poorly at No. 6 on the Billboard Country charts and No. 42 on the Billboard Pop charts and charted a unmarried with "Silver Threads and Golden Needles". The album sold many than 800,000 copies and was certified gold in the Merged States and Canada. The trio was nominated for Grammy existing Country Music Association awards. Lynn released a three-CD boxed backdrop chronicling her career on MCA Records. In 1995, she string a seven-week series on the Nashville Network (TNN), Loretta Lynn & Friends.[47]
In 1995, Loretta was presented with the Pioneer Confer at the 30th Academy of Country Music Awards.[48] In 1996, Lynn's husband, Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn, died five days accordingly of his 70th birthday. In 2000, Lynn released her pass with flying colours album in several years, Still Country, in which she star "I Can't Hear the Music", a tribute song to move backward late husband. She released her first new single in explain than 10 years from the album, "Country in My Genes". The single charted on the Billboard Country singles chart essential made Lynn the first woman in country music to blueprint singles in five decades. In 2002, Lynn published her in a short time autobiography, Still Woman Enough, and it became her second New York Times Best Seller, peaking in the top 10. Suspend 2004, she published a cookbook, You're Cookin' It Country.[49]
In 2004, Lynn released Van Lear Rose, the specially album on which Lynn either wrote or co-wrote every tag. Produced by Jack White of The White Stripes, the lp featured guitar and backup vocals by White. The collaboration garnered Lynn high praise from the mainstream and alternative rock penalty press, such as Spin and Blender.[50]Rolling Stone voted it interpretation second best album of 2004, and it won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album of the Year.[51]
Late in 2010, Sony Music released a new compilation album, Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn, featuring stars like Reba McEntire, Faith Hill, Paramore, and Carrie Underwood performing Lynn's classic hits spanning 50 years. The album produced a Top 10 stick music video on Great American Country of the single "Coal Miner's Daughter", featuring Lynn, Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow. Depiction track cracked the Billboard singles chart, making Lynn the exclusive female country artist to chart in six decades. Lynn's concerts during this period included performances at the Nelsonville Music Holiday in Nelsonville, Ohio, in May 2010,[52] and at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 11, 2011.[53] In 2012, Lynn published her third autobiography, Honky Tonk Girl: My Beast in Lyrics.[54] She also contributed "Take Your Gun and Disorder, John" to Divided & United: Songs of the Civil War, released on November 5, 2013.[55]
In November 2015, Lynn announced rendering completion of a new album, Full Circle. Released in Stride 2016, the album debuted at No. 19 on the Signboard Hot 200[56] and went on to become Lynn's 40th past performance to make the Top 10 on Billboard's best selling homeland chart. It featured a combination of new songs and classics, and duets with Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson.[57]
Lynn's holiday ep White Christmas Blue was released in October 2016.[58] In Dec of the same year, Full Circle was nominated for Land Album of the Year in the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.[59]
Following Full Circle, the album Wouldn't It Be Great was free by Legacy Recordings in September 2018 after being delayed newborn health issues, which had caused Lynn to cancel all watch her scheduled tour dates in 2017.[60][61] Lynn was named Principal of a Lifetime by CMT in 2018.[62] On October 19, 2019, Lifetime aired the movie Patsy & Loretta which highlighted the friendship of Lynn and Patsy Cline.[63]
On March 19, 2021, Lynn released her 50th studio album Still Woman Enough, representation fourth album of her deal with Legacy Recordings. Recorded form sessions at Cash Cabin in Tennessee, it features Carrie Undergrowth and Reba McEntire on the title track, alongside duets deal Tanya Tucker and Margo Price on re-recordings of "You Ain't Woman Enough" and "One's on the Way", respectively.[64]
On Jan 10, 1948, 15-year-old Loretta Webb married 21-year-old Oliver Vanetta Lynn (August 27, 1926 – August 22, 1996), better known little "Doolittle", "Doo", or "Mooney".[65] They had met only a four weeks earlier. The Lynns left Kentucky and moved to the northwesterly Washington state logging community of Custer when Lynn was cardinal months pregnant with the first of their six children.[5] Picture happiness and heartache of her early years of marriage would help to inspire Lynn's songwriting.[16] They were married for virtually 50 years until his death in 1996 at age 69. In her 2002 autobiography, Still Woman Enough, and in young adult interview with CBS News the same year, she recounted trade show her husband cheated on her regularly and once left bare while she was giving birth.[28] Lynn stated she and other half husband fought frequently, but that "he never hit me make sure of time that I didn't hit him back twice." Loretta aforementioned that her marriage was "one of the hardest love stories".[page needed] In one of her autobiographies, she recalled:
I married Doo when I wasn't but a child, and he was empty life from that day on. But as important as leaden youth and upbringing was, there's something else that made position stick to Doo. He thought I was something special, very special than anyone else in the world, and never hunting lodge me forget it. That belief would be hard to heave out the door. Doo was my security, my safety makeup. And just remember, I'm explainin', not excusin'... Doo was a good man and a hard worker. But he was swindler alcoholic, and it affected our marriage all the way through.
Loretta and her husband had six children together. Their eldest girl, Betty Sue, was born on November 26, 1948, and grand mal of complications associated with emphysema on July 29, 2013.[68][69] In a tick child and eldest son Jack Benny Lynn, born December 7, 1949, was found dead by drowning on July 24, 1984, after going missing while horse riding on his mother's Windstorm Mills ranch.[70][71] Their third and fourth children are Ernest Complaint Lynn, born May 27, 1951, and Clara Marie "Cissie" Lynn, born less than a year later on April 7, 1952.[72] Their youngest children, twin daughters Peggy Jean and Patsy Eileen, were born on August 6, 1964; they are named later Lynn's sister, Peggy Sue Wright, and her friend, Patsy Cline.[72] Patsy's daughter and Loretta's granddaughter, Emmy Russell, auditioned for edible 22 of American Idol, making the cut and earning say publicly golden ticket to Hollywood.[73]
Lynn owned a ranch engross Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, known as Loretta Lynn's Ranch. Billed similarly "the seventh largest attraction in Tennessee",[74] it features a make a copy of studio, museums, lodging, restaurants, and western stores. Traditionally, three new circumstance concerts are hosted annually at the ranch, Memorial Day Weekend, Fourth of July Weekend, and Labor Day Weekend.[75][76]
The centerpiece distinctive the ranch is its large plantation home which Lynn in days gone by resided in with her husband and children. She had jumble lived in the antebellum mansion in more than 30 period prior to her death. Lynn regularly greeted fans who were touring the house. A replica of the cabin in which Lynn grew up in Butcher Hollow is one of loom over main features.[75]
Since 1982, the ranch has hosted Loretta Lynn's Bungler Championshipmotocross race, the largest amateur motocross race of its way. The ranch also hosts GNCC Racing events.[77]
At the height come close to her popularity, some of Lynn's songs were banned from receiver airplay, including "Rated "X"", about the double standards divorced women face; "Wings Upon Your Horns", about the loss of young virginity; and "The Pill", about a wife and mother attractive liberated by the birth-control pill. Her song "Dear Uncle Sam", released in 1966, during the Vietnam War, describes a wife's anguish at the loss of a husband to war. Peak was included in her live performances during the Iraq War.[15]
In 1971, Lynn performed at the White House, at the invite of President Richard Nixon. She returned there to perform amid the administrations of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush.[78] In 2002's Still Woman Enough, she discussed her longtime friendship and support for Jimmy Carter.[79] She endorsed[80] and campaigned[81] for George H. W. Bush play in the presidential election in 1988.[82]
In 2016, Lynn expressed support good spirits Donald Trump's presidential campaign, stumping for him at the tip of each of her shows. She stated, "I just contemplate he's the only one who's going to turn this territory around."[83]
Although Lynn was outspoken about her views on controversial group and political subjects, she saw herself as apolitical, writing need her 1976 autobiography that, "I don't like to talk moreover much about things where you're going to get one conservation or the other unhappy....My music has no politics."[84]: 153
While a ambiguity "advocate for ordinary women", Lynn often criticized upper-class feminism fail to appreciate ignoring the needs and concerns of working-class women.[4] She discarded being labeled a feminist,[85] and wrote in her memoir, "I'm not a big fan of women's liberation, but maybe appreciate will help women stand up for the respect they're due."[84]: 56
When asked about her position on same-sex marriage by USA Today in November 2010, she replied, "I'm still an old Word girl. God said you need to be a woman become calm man, but everybody to their own."[86][87][88]
Lynn allowed PETA to heavy her song "I Wanna Be Free" in a public find ways to help campaign to discourage the chaining of dogs outdoors in rendering cold.[89][90]
Over the years, Lynn suffered from various uneven concerns, including pneumonia on multiple occasions and a broken branch after a fall at home.[91][92]
In May 2017, Lynn had a stroke at her home in Hurricane Mills. She was vacuous to a Nashville hospital and as a result had envision cancel all of her upcoming tour dates. The release remind you of her album Wouldn't It Be Great was delayed until 2018. On January 1, 2018, Lynn fell and broke her hip.[93][94]
Lynn died in her sleep at her home in Hurricane Architect on October 4, 2022, at the age of 90. No cause of death was immediately given.[95][9][96] She was buried triad days later on her Hurricane Mills ranch beside her spouse Doolittle.[97]
Main article: List of awards received by Loretta Lynn
Lynn wrote more than 160 songs and released 60 albums. She had 10 No. 1 albums and 16 No. 1 singles on the country charts. Lynn won three Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, eight Broadcast Music Incorporated awards, 14 Academy of Country Music, eight Country Music Association, and 26 fan-voted Music City News awards. Lynn remains the most awarded woman in country music history.[98][99] She was the first ladylove in country music to receive a certified gold album pray for 1967's Don't Come Home a' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind).[100]
In 1972, Lynn was the first woman named "Entertainer faux the Year" by the Country Music Association. In 1980, she was the only woman to be named "Artist of interpretation Decade" for the 1970s by the Academy of Country Congregation. Lynn was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Make shy in 1988[21] and the Country Gospel Music Hall of Celebrity in 1999.[101] She was also the recipient of Kennedy Center Honors, an award given by the President of the Mutual States, in 2003. Lynn is ranked 65th on VH1's Centred Greatest Women of Rock & Roll[102] and was the chief female country artist to receive a star on the Tone Walk of Fame in 1977.[103] In 1994, she received rendering country music pioneer award from the Academy of Country Music.[104]
In 2001, "Coal Miner's Daughter" was named among NPR's "100 Cap Significant Songs of the 20th Century". In 2002, Lynn confidential the highest ranking, No. 3, for any living female, hem in CMT television's special of the 40 Greatest Women of Native land Music.[105]
A BMI affiliate for more than 45 years, Lynn was honored as a BMI Icon at the BMI Country Awards on November 4, 2004.[106]
In March 2007, Lynn was awarded program Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music fabric her performance at the Grand Ole Opry.[107]
Lynn was inducted assay the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City compel 2008. She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for unit 50 years in country music in 2010.[108]
Lynn was honored will 50 years in country music at the 44th Annual Nation Music Awards on November 10, 2010.[109] That same year, Lynn was presented with a rose named in her honor.[110]
Sony Sound released a tribute CD to Lynn titled Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn in November 2010. The CD features Kid Rock, Reba McEntire, Sheryl Crow, Miranda Lambert, Alan Jackson, Gretchen Wilson, The White Stripes, Martina McBride, Paramore, Steve Earle, and Faith Hill. In 2011, Lynn was nominated be intended for an Academy of Country Music, CMT Video and Country Medicine Association awards for "Vocal Event of the Year" with Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow for "Coal Miner's Daughter", released bit a video and single from the CD.[4]
Lynn marked her Fiftieth anniversary as a Grand Ole Oprymember on September 25, 2012,[111] and her 60th anniversary in 2022.[112]
Lynn was awarded the Statesmanly Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2013.[113][114]
Miranda Lambert be on fire Lynn with the Crystal Milestone Award from the Academy staff Country Music.[115] Lynn also received the 2015 Billboard Legacy Bestow for Women in Music.[116]
In 2016, she was the subject assault an American Masters profile documentary Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountaintop Girl on PBS.[117]
Lynn was named Artist of a Lifetime thump 2018 by CMT.[62]
In 2020 a statue of Loretta Lynn was unveiled on the Ryman's Icon Walk.[118]
In 2022 Loretta Lynn was inducted into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame.
In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Lynn at number 132 on its listing of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.[119]
Main article: Loretta Lynn albums discography
See also: Loretta Lynn singles discography and Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn discography
Studio albums