The 1980 Loretta Lynn biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter — which airs tonight at 8pm EST on TCM as part of their “Mary Stuart Celebrates Music in the Movies” series — first hit theaters over ...

The winding road that country music traveled had long ago been paved over by men when Loretta Lynn stepped on stage and — with grace, charm and ample force — countered centuries of patriarchal ...

A year later, Lynn’s autobiography "Coal Miner's Daughter" was on shelves. It picked up where her 1970 chart-topping song of the same name left off, offering an unflinching look at her life.

“Coal Miner’s Daughter: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Loretta Lynn” will air live on Sunday, October 30 (10/30/2022) at 7 p.m. ET. A live stream of the celebration can be found on ...

(inset) Loretta Lynn, Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' (1980), and Sutton Foster Everett/Getty Coal Miner’s Daughter, Loretta Lynn’s bestselling autobiography-turned ...

By George Vecsey George Vecsey, a former sports columnist and reporter for The New York Times who covered religion and Appalachia among his other beats, co-wrote “Coal Miner’s Daughter” with ...

Loretta Lynn, who rose from an impoverished childhood in Kentucky’s coal fields to become a pioneering female star of country music, has died. She was 90. According to a statement from her ...

Loretta Lynn, the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” whose gutsy lyrics and twangy, down-home vocals made her a queen of country music for seven decades, has died. She was 90. Lynn’s family said in a ...

In her 1970 smash hit, “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” Lynn told the story of her upbringing, which helped her reach her widest audience yet. “We were poor but we had love / That’s the one ...