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Loretta Lynn Wrote “Coal Miner’s Daughter” On A $17 Guitar: “If I Told The Whole Story, Nobody Would Believe It”

A career-defining song. On this date in 1970, the late, great Loretta Lynn was at #1 on the country chart with her signature tune "Coal Miner's Daughter." It also became her first song to chart on the ...
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3 Country Songs From 1970 That Helped Shape the Decade

The 70s are one of the most important decades in country music. In the 70s, numerous songs were released, which would later ...
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They'll Never Keep Us Down: Women's Coal Mining Songs [sound recording]

Coal mining women / H. Dickens (3:56) --Drag lines / D. Silverstein (2:49) --Blue diamond mines / J. Ritchie (3:57) -- Coal miner's grave / H. Dickens (5:25) --Hello ...
American Songwriter

The Folk Song Sissy Spacek Wrote and Recorded as Rainbo a Decade Before Starring in ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’

After the release of John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s 1968 debut album together, Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, a then-19-year-old actress, Sissy Spacek, performing under the pseudonym Rainbo, ...