The music, life and legacy of Loretta Lynn

This Is Nashville · Oct 11, 2022 · 50m

County icon Loretta Lynn died October 4 at the age of 90. Born a coal miner's daughter in Butcher's Hollow, Kentucky, she was a fixture of Nashville's music scene since the 1960s. She performed several times at the Grand Ole Opry and was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983. It was in Nashville that her autobiographical, Oscar-winning film Coal Miner’s Daughter first debuted in 1980.

Today, we're diving into the legacy Loretta Lynn has left behind, in Nashville and beyond. We're discussing how she created her own image in the music industry, and the tension between how…