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

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.

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

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 ...