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 ...

Loretta Lynn Celebrates Her Birthday with a Star-Powered ... Julie Fudge remembers frequent visits during childhood to the Lynns' Nashville-area home with her dad and younger brother.

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 ...

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 ...