Loretta Lynn
USA, 1960–2022
American singer-songwriter (1932-2022) from Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. She wrote her own songs about the lives of working women - birth control, drink, an unfaithful husband - plainly enough that radio banned several of them, and 'Coal Miner's Daughter' made her origins a national story.
MusicRoots documents 2 artists who influenced Loretta Lynn and 0 artists Loretta Lynn influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.
Who influenced Loretta Lynn?
- Kitty Wells — Wells had already made a country song that answered men back, and that is the ground Lynn's own writing stands on.
- Patsy Cline — Cline befriended Lynn when she arrived in Nashville and taught her how to dress, sing and handle the business.