The secret of Loretta Lynn, historians Mary Bufwack and Robert Oermann write, “is in her honesty. Her strength is in her womanhood. Her pride is in her working-class background.” She achieved ...

In the late 1950s, Lynn started her first band, Loretta & The Trailblazers, which included her brother Jay Lee Webb playing guitar, according to her website biography. They played small shows in ...

Emmy Russell has vivid memories of her childhood, riding in the tour bus alongside her grandmother - or Meemaw as Russell calls her - Loretta Lynn. She'd sometimes join her onstage or they'd sing ...

Loretta Lynn, who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing ... She wrote about intimate matters – from her difficult, wearying childhood to fights with her husband – yet managed to strike a ...