I thought 'Gee whiz, this is an easy job.' " In the late 1950s, Lynn started her first band, Loretta & The Trailblazers, which included her brother Jay Lee Webb playing guitar, according to her ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Loretta Lynn, who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing to become the most culturally significant female singer-songwriter in country music history, has died. She was 90.