Loretta Lynn, coal miner's daughter and country queen, dies at 90

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Country music great Loretta Lynn poses for a portrait in September 2000 in Nashville, Tenn.

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Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter who became a pillar of country music, died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. She was 90.

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Loretta Lynn, whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died.

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She was 90.In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lynn's family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

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Lynn already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background.

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As a songwriter, she crafted a persona of a defiantly tough woman, a contrast to the stereotypical image of most female country singers.

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The Country Music Hall of Famer wrote fearlessly about sex and love, cheating husbands, divorce and birth control and sometimes got in trouble with radio programmers

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Her biggest hits came in the 1960s and '70s, including "Coal Miner's Daughter," "You Ain't Woman Enough," "The Pill," "Rated X" and "You're Looking at Country."

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