08 Oct
520: Loretta Lynn’s Coal Miner’s Daughter
Country music legend Loretta Lynn recorded “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” her autobiographical hit, in 1969. It tells the story of her life growing up “in a cabin on a hill in Butcher Hollar,” while her father worked all night in the Van Lear Coal Mine. The single was released by Decca Records in 1970 and reached number one on the Billboard magazine country singles. In 1980, Sissy Spacek portrayed Lynn in the Coal Miner’s Daughter movie, for which she won an Academy Award.
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