Loretta Webb Lynn

Lynn pushed country music into subjects it avoided. She sang about birth control in The Pill, repeated childbirth in One's on the Way, the double standard in Rated X and a wife widowed by the draft in Dear Uncle Sam, and radio stations often refused to play her records. In a 1987 interview she said eight of her songs had been banned. Rated X reached number one on the Billboard country chart in 1973. She died in 2022 at her Hurricane Mills home at ninety.

What the plaque says

Loretta Webb Lynn Loretta Lynn rose from impoverished roots to become the one of most significant female singer-songwriters in country music history. Born in Van Lear, Kentucky, she married Mooney Lynn at age fifteen and they had six children. Given a Sears & Roebuck guitar, she learned to play and soon began writing and recording songs that boosted her career in the 1960s and 1970s. Her songs include "I'm a Honky-Tonk Girl," "The Pill, "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' With loving' On Your Mind," "You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man," and "Fist City." Continue - Lynn joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1962 and was named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association in 1872 and the Academy of Country Music in 1976. Her autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, was published in 1976. It became a popular movie starring Sissy Spacek. Loretta Lynn was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 2008. She won three Grammy Awards and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Johnsonville State Historic Park — 12 mi
  A Tennessee River park on the site of a Union supply depot shelled in November 1864 and of the town later drowned by Kentucky Lake, with earthworks, a railroad bed and an African American cemetery.
• Patsy Cline Crash Site Memorial — 22 mi
  An engraved rock off Mt. Carmel Road near Camden marking where a small plane carrying Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins went down on March 5, 1963.
• Mousetail Landing State Park — 25 mi
  A Perry County state park on the Tennessee River where a leather-shipping landing once stood, with ruins of its pier and blacksmith shop, a historic landing trail and quiet water trails.

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• Hattie Wyatt Caraway — 5.6 mi
• Captain William Robert Anderson — 5.6 mi
• Waverly Disaster — 8.1 mi
• Gunboats & Cavalry November 4, 1864 — 19 mi