‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’: Real Life In Butcher Holler, By Loretta Lynn

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‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’: Real Life In Butcher Holler, By Loretta Lynn

On December 19, 1970, already ten years into her chart career, the self-taught singer, songwriter and guitarist Loretta Lynn took a number about her own life to No.1, when “Coal Miner’s Daughter” hit the country summit. Click to load video The great country music figurehead wrote the song about her own upbringing as the second of seven children, “in a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler,” the coal mining community where she was born on April 14, 1…