Loretta Lynn

Although country music icon Loretta Lynn came out of a coal mining community in Kentucky, she wrote songs that everyone could relate to (including The White Stripes’ Jack White, who produced her acclaimed 2004 comeback album “Van Lear Rose”). Foremost among them, of course, was the autobiographical “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” a No. 1 country hit in 1970 that became the title of her 1978 autobiography and was later made into an Oscar-winning biopic. The song is also in the Grammy Hall of Fame, and along with other hits like “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” paved the way for her induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Key songs in the Lynn catalog include “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind),” “Your Squaw Is On The Warpath,” “I’m A Honky-Tonk Girl,” “You Ain’t Woman Enough To Take My Man,” “You’re Lookin’ At Country” and “Rated X.”

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