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 ...

A portrait of Patsy Cline in 1957; A portrait of Loretta Lynn on January 1, 1960 ... "After I met Patsy, life got better for ...

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 ...

Loretta Lynn herself made several appearances ... shed a lot of tears over things that we remembered about our childhood and about our parents. … We often talked about how happy [we were ...

Shortly after the release of Phillips’ “Put It Off Until Tomorrow,” Loretta Lynn recorded the song on her 1966 album You Ain’t Woman Enough, which became her first number-one country album.