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Loretta Lynn tribute

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Aug 23, 2010 Updated Sep 29, 2010

Country music's most enduring star is to be honoured in a series of events marking the 50th anniversary of her first single ‘I’m A Honky Tonk Girl’.

A new album Coal Miner’s Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn is due out on November 12. The list of participating artists is yet to be revealed but will represent a variety of genres.

Lynn’s 1976 best-selling memoir, Coal Miner’s Daughter also gets a re-release next month. It was made into an Academy Award-winning movie starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones back in 1980.

Then in October, the Recording Academy will host Grammy Salute to Country Music – a star-filled tribute concert at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, where Lynn will be presented with The Recording Academy’s President’s Merit Award in recognition of her contribution to country music.

Loretta Lynn has released more than 15 number one country hits over the course of her career. The song Coal Miner’s Daughter was one of only 25 sound recordings chosen in 2010 for preservation within the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

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Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb April 14, 1935) is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 14 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Vanetta Lynn, Jr. (b.1926, d.1996), nicknamed "Doo". Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he had affairs and...

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