5/8/2023 0 Comments Loretta lynn 2022The single was largely self-promoted by Lynn and her husband, who drove cross country bringing the single to radio stations for airplay. In March of 1960, she released her debut single, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl," which peaked at number fourteen on the Country Billboard Chart. The group caught the attention of Canadian producers, Norm Burley and Don Grashey who signed Loretta to their newly founded label, Zero Records. A talented songwriter in her own right, she formed her first group, Loretta and the Trailblazers which featured her younger brother Jay Lee Webb on the lead guitar. She quickly took to the instrument, working diligently over the following three years to become proficient with the seventeen dollar guitar. Five years later, after the birth of their third child, she was gifted a Harmony brand acoustic guitar by her husband. At the age of 15, she met and married Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn shortly before relocating with him to Washington State. The eldest daughter of a company coal miner, she helped her family etch out a meager living on the old family homeplace. Known as a "Queen of Country Music," she was born on Butcher Hollow in rural Van Lear, Kentucky.
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