Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal minerB次元官网网址檚 daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90.

In a statement provided to The Associated Press, LynnB次元官网网址檚 family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

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Lynn already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background.

As a songwriter, she crafted a persona of a defiantly tough woman, a contrast to the stereotypical image of most female country singers. The Country Music Hall of Famer wrote fearlessly about sex and love, cheating husbands, divorce and birth control and sometimes got in trouble with radio programmers for material from which even rock performers once shied away.

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Her honesty and unique place in country music was rewarded. She was the first woman ever named entertainer of the year at the genreB次元官网网址檚 two major awards shows, first by the Country Music Association in 1972 and then by the Academy of Country Music three years later.

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In 1969, she released her autobiographical B次元官网网址淐oal MinerB次元官网网址檚 Daughter,B次元官网网址� which helped her reach her widest audience yet.

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Born Loretta Webb, the second of eight children, she claimed her birthplace was Butcher Holler, near the coal mining company town of Van Lear in the mountains of east Kentucky. There really wasnB次元官网网址檛 a Butcher Holler, however. She later told a reporter that she made up the name for the purposes of the song based on the names of the families that lived there.

Her daddy played the banjo, her mama played the guitar and she grew up on the songs of the Carter Family.

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She wrote in her autobiography that she was 13 when she got married to Oliver B次元官网网址淢ooneyB次元官网网址� Lynn, but the AP that showed she was 15. Tommy Lee Jones played Mooney Lynn in the biopic.

Her husband, whom she called B次元官网网址淒ooB次元官网网址� or B次元官网网址淒oolittle,B次元官网网址� urged her to sing professionally and helped promote her early career. With his help, she earned a recording contract with Decca Records, later MCA, and performed on the Grand Ole Opry stage. Lynn wrote her first hit single, B次元官网网址淚B次元官网网址檓 a Honky Tonk Girl,B次元官网网址� released in 1960.

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The Academy of Country Music chose her as the artist of the decade for the 1970s, and she was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988.

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She moved to Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, outside of Nashville, in the 1990s, where she set up a ranch complete with a replica of her childhood home and a museum that is a popular roadside tourist stop. The dresses she was known for wearing are there, too.

Lynn knew that her songs were trailblazing, especially for country music, but she was just writing the truth that so many rural women like her experienced.

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Even into her later years, Lynn never seemed to stop writing, scoring a multi-album deal in 2014 with Legacy Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. In 2017, she that forced her to postpone her shows.

She and her husband were married nearly 50 years . They had six children: Betty, Jack, Ernest and Clara, and then twins Patsy and Peggy. She had 17 grandchildren and four step-grandchildren.

B次元官网网址擪ristin M. Hall, The Associated Press