Loretta Lynn has been performing live concerts all over the world for more than 50 years and she is still dubbed country music's sweetheart.
Loretta Lynn was born Loretta Webb in 1935 and has been one of the leading ladies of country music since the 1960's.
In 1976 Loretta Lynn;s biography became a hit Academy Award winning movie that starred actress Sissy Spacek in the lead and very convincing performance of Loretta along side of actor Tommy Lee Jones who played Loretta's husband Doolittle Lynn.
Loretta was the second of eight children who grew up in Butcher Holler Kentucky a place that is near and dear to Loretta's heart and can be found mentioned in a number of Loretta's hit songs. Butcher Holler which is a section of the Van Lear mining community is near Paintsville in Johnson County Kentucky.
Loretta met and married Doolittle Lynn when she was only thirteen years old and began immediately having children ,by the time Loretta was 19 she had four small children to take care of, and a few years later also gave birth to a set of identical twin girls.
When Loretta Lynn was 24 years old Doolittle bought her a guitar for an anniversary present which she taught herself to play. By 1960 Loretta begin playing in small clubs and went onto record hit record 'I'm a Honky Tonk Girl'.
In 1967 Loretta Lynn had he first #1 hit with the still very popular country music crowd pleaser 'Don't Come Home A Drinkin' she followed up that hit with her next a song she wrote about the women she believed that her husband Doolittle fooled around with on the side called 'You Ain't Woman Enough .'
In 1971 Loretta teamed up with country crooner Conway Twitty and had a number of hits singing as a duet that has been said to have reached a type of musical chemistry between the two that has yet to be found by any others.
Loretta Lynn has slowed down considerably with her live concert performances, but still plays to a sold out crowd everytime she does perform .Loretta Lynn owns a huge ranch in Hurricane Mills Tennessee which is listed as the 7th largest attraction in the state of Tennessee.
Loretta Lynn speaks fondly of her life's memories and even laughs when she speaks of her late husband Doolittle Lynn who passed away in 1996 by saying with a smile "He never hit me one time that I didn't hit him back twice."
Brenda D. has been a huge Loretta Lynn fan all of her life and had this to say about legendary sweetheart of country music "Loretta Lynn puts so much of herself into her music and performances that is why her fans can identify with her and her music on such a personal level, and why she will always be country music's sweetheart."
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