In July 1984, Loretta's 34-year-old son drowned while going for a horseback ride. Jack Benny Lynn had taken his favorite horse out at the family's 5,000-acre ranch outside of Waverly, Tenn.

Zeke Dawson, who served as Loretta Lynn 's fiddle player in her Coal Miner Band for nearly a decade, has died. According to his obituary, Dawson died on Monday (Nov. 11). He was 84 years old. His ...

More about Sutton Foster portraying Loretta Lynn On February 18, it was announced that Foster would play the role of the late country music icon in a stage adaptation of Coal Miner's Daughter.

Zeke Dawson, a fiddle player and former member of Loretta Lynn’s backing band passed away on Monday (November 11) at the age of 84. His cause of death has not yet been revealed. Along with being ...