Loretta Webb Lynn

Loretta Lynn rose from impoverished roots to become the one of most significant female singer-songwriters in country music history. Born in Van Lear, Kentucky, she married Mooney Lynn at age fifteen and they had six children. Given a Sears & Roebuck guitar, she learned to play and soon began writing and recording songs that boosted her career in the 1960s and 1970s. Her songs include "I'm a Honky-Tonk Girl," "The Pill, "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' With loving' On Your Mind," "You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man," and "Fist City." Continue - Lynn joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1962 and was named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association in 1872 and the Academy of Country Music in 1976. Her autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, was published in 1976. It became a popular movie starring Sissy Spacek. Loretta Lynn was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 2008. She won three Grammy Awards and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.