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Loretta Lynn

Loretta Webb was born on April 14, 1935, in Butcher Holler, Kentucky. The daughter of a coal miner, the 13-year-old Loretta married Oliver Doolittle “Mooney" Lynn in 1948. Mooney was a logging camp worker whose job required the couple to move to Custer, Washington. When Loretta was 14 years old, she gave birth to her first child. She had three more children by the time she was 17 and her fondness for singing to them inspired Mooney to buy her a guitar. With the encouragement of Mooney, Lynn began singing at local bars and clubs. In the late 1950s, Lynn recorded the song “Honky Tonk Girl,” which she marketed by visiting radio stations around the U.S. The song eventually secured a place at No. 14 on the country charts and awarded Lynn the opportunity to perform at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry in 1960. The exposure led to a long-term contract with the Decca record label for whom she would record a slew of hits over the next 20 years. In 1962, Lynn became a permanent member of the Grand Ole Opry and subsequently relocated to Nashville, Tennessee. By the mid-1960s, Lynn was the most popular female country singer in America and had a string of chart-topping singles, including “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind)” (1966), “Fist City” (1968), and “Woman of the World... Next

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