In 1960 she made a record of her own song, I’m a Honky Tonk Girl, for a local label, Zero. She gave birth to four of her six children before the age of 19. Mooney worked as a garage mechanic and farmhand while Lynn combined raising a family with singing and playing guitar with her own band. After he lost his mining job, the couple moved to the logging town of Custer, in Washington state. In 1948, three months before her 16th birthday, Loretta married Mooney. Photograph: DMI/The Life Picture Collection Two of her sisters (including Brenda Gail, who achieved success under the name Crystal Gayle) and a brother, Willie “Jay” Lee, also became professional musicians. Loretta was encouraged to sing at family gatherings and in church during her childhood.
Her mother, Clara (nee Butcher), who was of part-Cherokee ancestry, named her daughter after a favourite film star, Loretta Young. She was born in the poverty-stricken mining town of Butcher Hollow in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky, the second of eight children of Ted Webb, a coalminer. Lynn said the song “told everybody that I could write about something else besides marriage problems”, and it was chosen as the name for her 1976 autobiography, as well as the 1980 film of her rags-to-riches life, which brought her story to an international audience. The most clearly autobiographical of her hit songs was Coal Miner’s Daughter, a No 1 hit in the country chart in 1970, and one of her few records to make the mainstream US chart. Loretta Lynn singing Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind)
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