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'Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man' - Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty (1973) Lines We Love: "Louisiana woman, Mississippi man/ We get together every time we can" Make that a Kentucky woman and an Arkansas man. And though they were never romantically linked, their numerous duets and undeniable chemistry had many thinking they were...

Country music legend Loretta Lynn is following up her Grammy-winning 2004 album 'Van Lear Rose,' with not one but two new recording projects. The 73-year-old tells Billboard she's working on an album of new material that could be ready by late spring, saying that the album will be in the traditional country vein but will deal with modern issues...

A Loretta Lynn concert is typically a family affair, as her son, two daughters and granddaughter often join the country legend on stage. And sometimes concertgoers witness a little playful family feuding. The Washington Post reports that Lynn's son Ernest Ray, who plays guitar in her band, gave his mom an especially hard time at a show Saturday in Washington, D...

'Coal Miner's Daughter' -- Loretta Lynn (1970) The bottom lines: "We were poor but we had love/That's the one thing my daddy made sure of/He shoveled coal to make a poor man's holler." As she says in the opening line, Lynn was born a coal miner's daughter -- one of eight kids raised in a cabin with no electricity and no running water...

"In the summer time, we didn't have shoes to wear, but in the winter time, we'd all get a brand new pair/From a mail-order catalog, money made from selling a hog/Daddy always managed to get the money from somewhere" --'Coal Miner's Daughter,' Loretta Lynn (1970) Previous Next Buy it on iTunes

Loretta Lynn apparently has some unwanted guests in her home -- ghosts! The country legend has enlisted the help of celebrity 'ghost whisperer' James Van Praagh to rid her Hurricane Mills, Tenn. mansion of spirits. Van Praagh's visit to Lynn's home was filmed by the TV show, 'The Insider...

Loretta Lynn will join an elite list of tunesmiths when she is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday in New York. Lynn wrote many of her hits, including 'You Ain't Woman Enough,' 'Fist City' and 'Coal Miner's Daughter.' Already inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame 15 years ago, the living legend is now is part of a select group that encompasses all genres of music, in

Sounds Like: The timeless country sounds of Loretta Lynn or Patty Loveless Influenced By: Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson Why She's Blowing Up OurStage: At Merlefest, the annual Americana music festival in North Carolina, Wendy's song 'Runaround' received a Chris Austin Songwriting Award...