The musician had been taking care of a home and feeding a family from a young age. Married at 15 to a moonshine runner six years her senior, Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn, Loretta was a mother of four ...

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 ...