Loretta Lynn COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER gold record award (15 X 21)

UPDATE (October 4, 2022): Loretta passed this morning at 90 at her home. She was the FIRST woman to be named "Entertainer of the Year" at the CMA (Country Music Awards). She took Nashville under siege when she arrived and never looked back. What a story. What a legend. R.I.P. Loretta Lynn - Dave Straub
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Some people say she’s just the “First Lady of Country Music.” Others say she’s earned the crown and she’s now the “QUEEN” of Country. Whatever Loretta Lynn is, she has paid her dues to be certain. From the Great Depression in the Kentucky hills and hollows (…which she called the “hollers”), Loretta WAS a “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and proud of it. Like Dolly’s “Coat of Many Colors,” her Coal Miner’s Daughter is the penultimate autobiography of a country legend, and what most every major publication from Rolling Stone and Billboard to TIME Magazine calls the greatest personal story of any music legend in