Loretta Lynn — the “Coal Miner’s Daughter ... to the stricken star when she was recovering from a near-fatal car accident in 1961. Cline, who was the more established artist at the ...

Country music star Loretta Lynn married as a young teenager ... due to near-fatal injuries she sustained in a 1961 car accident. In Lynn’s memoir Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust, she said doctors ...

There’s no denying that Loretta Lynn is a legend ... song and even passing fans should be able to hum along in the car. The autobiographical track about her childhood in the mountains of ...

When country icon Loretta Lynn met her good friend Patsy Cline ... And it started when Cline was involved in a deadly 1961 car accident that nearly took her life. She was thrown into the ...

Sixty-two years ago today, on Oct. 15, 1960, Loretta Lynn made her ... sleeping in the car.” Only two years later, on Sept. 25, 1962, Lynn officially became a member of the Opry.

Loretta Lynn, a singer and songwriter whose rise from ... She didn’t ride in a car until she was 12, and the family’s sole connection to the outside world was a battery-powered radio, which ...

Loretta Lynn's Children: Everything to Know "Just want ... Son's Death for the First Time 2 Years After Teen Died in 'Fluke' Car Accident NBC's Richard Engel Shares Heartbreaking Reaction to ...

Loretta Lynn was one of the most iconic country ... but that’s where we were, sleeping in the car." Lynn performed "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl" on the Opry that night, but would later confess ...

For most people, Loretta Lynn doesn’t conjure the image of dirt bikes and the wail of a two-stroke. But for a certain group, their first taste of country came with the smell of premix.

The country songstresses first crossed paths in 1961, shortly after Cline was hospitalized with injuries from a car accident ... A portrait of Loretta Lynn on January 1, 1960.