Drinkin'" was significant not only because it became a No.1 song for her sister Loretta Lynn, but because it allowed women's empowerment to be a theme in country music.

These Loretta Lynn tracks challenged the norms of country music when they were released, and they're still deeply revered today.

A second song Spacek wrote for Hangin’ Up My Heart was a co-write with Loretta Lynn. The country-tipped “Smooth Talkin’ Daddy” was about a silver-tongued man who met his match with a fast ...

Throughout the decades, country musicians have both used their songs to protest racism ... from overtly political favorites like "The Pill" by Loretta Lynn to more subtly subversive classics.

(The song made a return to Lynn’s live sets with the coming of the Iraq war.) Over the next few years, Loretta wrote a string of hits unprecedented for their take-no-crap women narrators.

While much is not know about Lynn, her mother Betty was a Betty became a songwriter. She wrote the lyrics to Loretta's Wine, ...

From the legendary duets between Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn to more modern collaborations between husband-and-wife duo Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, there's no denying that country music produces ...

With holiday music on blast for the past two months now, there’s a good chance you’ve heard a number of different Christmas classics, including a few with ties to Tennessee. Below you’ll find five ...

The secret of Loretta Lynn, historians Mary Bufwack and Robert ... singing old Appalachian ballads and story songs she’d learned from her mother, and on Saturday nights would listen to the ...