Loretta Lynn was born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, on April 14, 1932, in a coal-mining family where childhood did not wait for a girl to grow up. Her father, Ted Webb, worked the mines and farmed to help feed eight children. Her mother, Clara, held the home together where money was thin, work was normal, and music came from church, family, and memory.
admin Introduction Loretta did not invent the hard life she later sang about. She carried it in her voice before Nashville ever learned her name. When she sang about being a…