Loretta Lynn died in her sleep Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, at age 90, according to a statement from her family. The coal-dusted queen of country leaves behind a rent in the landscape impossible to fill.
The firebrand singer and songwriter who transformed coal into diamonds by exploring her dirt-poor childhood in eastern Appalachia in her career-defining 1970 hit died on Tuesday, Oct. 4. Her family said that she died from natural causes at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.