I saw Loretta Lynn perform at the Paramount Center for the Arts in downtown Bristol in 1997. Just before the show, we got a chance to talk on the phone for an interview with this newspaper. She was a ...

Loretta Lynn’s brother Herman Webb (right) shows visitors around the family home of the country music star at Butcher Hollow in Van Lear, Ky., Oct. 2.

"Yeah, I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter," Loretta Lynn announced to the world in her 1971 song that also became the title of her 1976 autobiography and 1980 biopic. "The work we done was hard, ...