Country legend and coal miner’s daughter Loretta Lynn dies

Trailblaizing feminist country music legend and coal miner’s daughter Loretta Lynn has died at her home at the age of 90.

In the male-dominated world of country music in the 1960s and 1970s, Lynn built a reputation as a hillbilly feminist who was bold enough and talented enough to write her own songs.

In Rated X she sang about the inequities of man-woman relationships and her song The Pill celebrated the sexual freedom that birth control gave women.

She also sang about philandering husbands — a subject she knew about personally.

Lynn told an interviewer that 14 of her songs had been banned by radio stations.

“I wasn’t the first woman in country music,” she told Esquire magazine in 2007.

“I was just the first one to stand up there and say what I thought, what life was about. The rest were afrai

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