Music1953–2022
Loretta Lynn
Butcher Hollow, Kentucky coal miner's daughter who became the most awarded woman in country music history and whose fearless songwriting tackled subjects no one else dared.
Origin
Butcher Hollow, Kentucky
Genre
Country
The Cultural Record
Discography
You’re Lookin’ at Country1971
Still Country2000
Lookin’ Good1980
If We Put Our Heads Together1969
I Remember Patsy1977
Rank History
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#3Country — Oildale, California · 1962–2016
Oildale, California outlaw country artist who became the voice of working-class America and wrote Okie from Muskogee — possibly the most controversial country song of its era.