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- Loretta Lynn - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
(born 1932). The first female country singer to have a certified gold album was Loretta Lynn, whose 1960s release Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (with Lovin’ on Your Mind) achieved the honor in 1970. The Queen of Country, as she came to be called, recorded numerous hits during her long career, including Success, You Ain’t Woman Enough (to Take My Man), Blue Kentucky Girl, The Pill, and Your Squaw Is on the Warpath. Many of the songs that Lynn wrote herself dealt with problems faced by women in rural America, and she often drew on her own experiences. Her rags-to-riches story was chronicled in the hit film Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), based on Lynn’s 1976 autobiography of the same name.