"I don't have nothing to prove but I have stuff I want to do," the country legend tells PEOPLE. "And my fans want me to do it too. My fans are out there with me saying, 'Do it Loretta. Do it'" On ...

Tayla Lynn feels closest to her late "Memaw" Loretta Lynn when she sits on the front porch of her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. "If I need to feel her, if I'm feeling particularly sad or I ...

"I kind of grew up in the spotlight and so I was always very image-conscious," says Emmy Russell, who made Top 24 of this season's 'American Idol' Emmy Russell, granddaughter of the late country ...

"As long as you dwell on the bad, it's taking the life away from you that you need to be living," the late country icon told PEOPLE in a 2017 interview about her health struggles Jack Irvin has ...

Many American Idol hopefuls have the luxury of arriving as a complete unknown, but not Emmy Russell. As the granddaughter of iconic country trailblazer Loretta Lynn, the Tennessee native had major ...

Few friendships in show business have been as legendary or heartfelt as the bond between the late country superstars Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline. Though their friendship was cut short by Cline's ...

The secret of Loretta Lynn, historians Mary Bufwack and Robert Oermann write, “is in her honesty. Her strength is in her womanhood. Her pride is in her working-class background.” She achieved ...