Dawson served as Loretta Lynn’s fiddle player in her Coal Miner ... He will greatly be missed. RIP my great friend.” Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter ...

In 2000, Loretta Lynn released her first album in more than a decade and four years after the death of her husband of nearly 50 years, Oliver Lynn (also called “Mooney” and “Doo”).

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 ...

Hurricane Creek at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch (Courtesy: Jon Cody Finger) Hurricane Creek at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch (Courtesy: Jon Cody Finger) The Humphreys County community of Hurricane Mills was ...