Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb in 1932 in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky; died 2022 in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee) was a defining voice of commercial country music. While she was not a blues artist, her music shares the same rural, working-class DNA that birthed the blues tradition. Raised in an impoverished Appalachian coal-mining community, Lynn's songwriting was radically honest, tackling subjects like domestic strife, poverty, and female independence with a bluntness rarely seen in 1960s country music.