First it was an album in 1971, then an autobiography in 1976 and later a feature film in 1980. Now the story of country music ...

I cried and cried when I recorded that song. I can't get myself to perform it in concert yet," Loretta Lynn said of her song in 2000.

With Loretta Lynn spending over six decades in country music, she became an icon of the genre thanks to songs like “The Pill”, “Blue Kentucky Girl” and, of course, “Coal Miner’s ...