Hurricane Creek at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch (Courtesy: Jon Cody Finger) Hurricane Creek at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch (Courtesy: Jon Cody Finger) The Humphreys County community of Hurricane Mills was ...

The secret of Loretta Lynn, historians Mary Bufwack and Robert Oermann write, “is in her honesty. Her strength is in her womanhood. Her pride is in her working-class background.” She achieved ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Loretta Lynn, who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing to become the most culturally significant female singer-songwriter in country music history, has died. She was 90.