American country music icon Loretta Lynn has died at the age of 90

Loretta Lynn was a country music icon who shared her personal experiences with working-class women and country songwriting. She also taught others how to talk their minds. She was 90 years of age.

Her family released a statement saying that Loretta Lynn, our precious mother, died peacefully in her sleep at Hurricane Mills ranch.

“The Loretta Lynn story is unique, but she drew from it a body of works that resonates with people that might never understand her remote childhood, hardscrabble early years, or her adventures becoming a beloved celebrity,” Kyle Young (CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum) said in a statement. Loretta was determined to share her brave and bold truth in a music industry that is so focused on aspiration and fantasy.

Loretta Webb was born in Kentucky in an isolated coal mining community. “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” one of her most popular songs, proudly tells her story.

Lynn was just a teenager when she began a family with Oliver Lynn, a former soldier aged 21. They had the first four children and then moved to Washington. Her husband heard her singing at night and encouraged her to perform publicly. She said that she would not have done it differently in a 2010 interview with Fresh Air: “I wouldn’t get out in public in front of people.” I was very shy and would not have sung in front of anyone.

Robert Oermann, a journalist and country music historian, said that Lynn learned to write songs after her husband began to find paying gigs for her.

Oermann said that Oermann gave Oermann a copy of Country Song Roundup, a magazine that featured country lyrics and stories about musicians. She would go through the magazine and read the lyrics. That’s possible. She could and had.”

Lynn drove her husband to radio stations and introduced herself to them. She tried to persuade them to spin her record. Lynn was already being noticed by these efforts when she and her husband arrived in Nashville in 1960. Jim Reeves and PatsyCline, who were Lynn’s mentors, had great success with their pop-sweetened production style. This is known as The Nashville Sound. Lynn was a producer for Cline, Owen Bradley. She remained true to her hardened twang.

Country music has often depicted hardship from male perspectives. Lynn was not afraid to expose the indignities she suffered in her marriage or the double standards that other women faced when it came time to divorce, have a baby, and decide on birth control. She discovered that Nashville was not used to this kind of honesty.

Angaleena, a fellow songwriter from eastern Kentucky, was brought up on Loretta Lynn records by her mother. She recognizes the importance of these records to women in earlier generations.

She says that she is certain that many, many women were there at that time, particularly in the country. He works all day. He should be able to have a drink at night, and then come home and do whatever he likes. And I’ll clean up after the kids. Lynn said “Nope.” It’s not okay, and it’s okay for you to tell me it’s not OK.

Presley said Lynn’s perspective “contributed much to the feminist movement,”, particularly in rural areas of the country. Presley said that Lynn was “the voice” and even though she didn’t speak out as a feminist actively, her songs definitely did.

No less than 51 songs were Top 10 Country Hits on the Billboard charts. Lynn was named Entertainer-of-the-Year in 1972 by the Country Music Association. In 1988, Lynn was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2003, Kennedy Center Honors were presented to her and she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.

Although their relationship was difficult, Lynn and Doolittle remained together until Doolittle’s death in 1996. (Lynn made sure that fans knew that Conway Twitty’s long-lasting musical partnership was business. Lynn performed and recorded well into the new millennium. She also attracted younger audiences with her collaboration with Jack White.

Lynn’s appeal was based on her ability to communicate her values to large audiences throughout her career.

“This idea that I might be on stage singing this song, but it’s not like I’m better than you. I am you,” journalist Oermann says. That’s the essence of the message. This kind of humility can be a powerful and positive thing.

This approach was a constant guide for her songwriting. Lynn’s bravery is evident in the music that she left behind.

Lynn stated that “I like real-life because that’s the way we live today,” in All Things Considered 2004. “I think that’s the reason people bought my records. They’re living in this universe. So am I. I can see the situation and grab it.”