Photograph: DMI/The Life Picture Collection Two of her sisters (including Brenda Gail, who achieved success under the name Crystal Gayle) and a brother, Willie “Jay” Lee, also became professional musicians. Loretta was encouraged to sing at family gatherings and in church during her childhood. Her mother, Clara (nee Butcher), who was of part-Cherokee ancestry, named her daughter after a favourite film star, Loretta Young. She was born in the poverty-stricken mining town of Butcher Hollow in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky, the second of eight children of Ted Webb, a coalminer. Lynn said the song “told everybody that I could write about something else besides marriage problems”, and it was chosen as the name for her 1976 autobiography, as well as the 1980 film of her rags-to-riches life, which brought her story to an international audience. The most clearly autobiographical of her hit songs was Coal Miner’s Daughter, a No 1 hit in the country chart in 1970, and one of her few records to make the mainstream US chart. Loretta Lynn singing Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind)
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