On this date in 1976, country singer Loretta Lynn topped the Billboard charts with her song, “Somebody Somewhere.” ...

April 14 marks what would have been Loretta Lynn's 91st birthday. Although her passing in 2022 left the music world shaken, Loretta Lynn's story is writ large in the pages of country music history.

In Lynn’s 1976 autobiography turned movie, Coal Miner’s Daughter, she wrote, “My life has run from misery to happiness — and sometimes back to misery.” That was before Lynn’s oldest son, Jack Benny, ...

One of the more noteworthy aspects of the movie, “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” was that as biographical films go, it was praised as among the more accurate. That might be because Loretta Lynn, who died on ...