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Loretta Lynn
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Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn is a country artist from United States formed in 1960. 83 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.

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83
Releases
1965–2025
Active years
1960
Formed

Discography

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Singles & EPs

7

Live & compilations

10

Appears on

3

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Featured tracks

4

Collaborators

3

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Loretta Lynn at a glance

Born in
Butcher Hollow
From
United States
Active since
1959
Instruments
guitar, voice
Member of
Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Labels
Decca, Zero Records
Former spouse
Oliver Lynn (1948–1996)
Siblings
Crystal Gayle, Peggy Sue

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About

Loretta Lynn is an American country-music singer-songwriter and author born in Butcher Hollow, near Paintsville, Kentucky, USA, to a coal-miner father. At the age of 15 she married, and soon she became pregnant. She moved to Washington state with her husband, Oliver Vanetta Lynn, Jr. (1926–1996), nicknamed "Doo". Their marriage was tumultuous; he had affairs, and she was headstrong; their life together helped to inspire her music. On their 6 year anniversary, at the age of 21, (1953), Lynn's husband bought her a $17 Harmony guitar. She taught herself to play and when she was 24, on her wedding anniversary, he encouraged her to become a singer. She worked to improve her guitar playing, started singing at the Delta Grange Hall in Washington state with the Pen Brothers' band, The Westerners, then eventually cut her first record in February 1960. She became a part of the country music scene in Nashville in the 1960s, and in 1967 charted her first of 16 number-one hits (out of 70 charted songs as a solo artist and a duet partner) that include "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", "You Ain't Woman Enough", "Fist City", and "Coal Miner's Daughter".

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She focused on blue collar women's issues with themes about philandering husbands and persistent mistresses, and pushed boundaries in the conservative genre of country music by singing about birth control ("The Pill"), repeated childbirth ("One's on the Way"), double standards for men and women ("Rated "X""), and being widowed by the draft during the Vietnam War ("Dear Uncle Sam"). Country music radio stations often refused to play her songs. Nonetheless, she became known as "The First Lady of Country Music". Her best-selling 1976 autobiography was made into an Academy Award-winning film, Coal Miner's Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones, in 1980. Her most recent album, Van Lear Rose, was released in 2004, produced by Jack White, and topped the country album charts. Lynn has received numerous awards in country and American music.

Loretta Lynn in brief

How many Loretta Lynn releases are on Riffiter?
83 releases are catalogued, spanning 1965 to 2025.
When was Loretta Lynn formed?
Loretta Lynn formed in 1960, in United States.
What genre is Loretta Lynn?
Loretta Lynn is catalogued under Country.
What is the most recent Loretta Lynn release on Riffiter?
Songs of Inspiration, released in 2025.

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