Loretta Lynn is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in the early 1960s, when songs like "Success," "Before I'm Over You" and "Blue Kentucky Girl" landed her on the country music ...

Loretta Lynn, who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing ... and though many of her songs are filled with specifics of her wholly unique life, they had a universal appeal. She wrote about intimate ...

The secret of Loretta Lynn, historians Mary Bufwack and Robert ... singing old Appalachian ballads and story songs she’d learned from her mother, and on Saturday nights would listen to the ...