In 2000, Loretta ... for Lynn to get through recording the track. “I cried and cried when I recorded that song,” she recalled. “I can’t get myself to perform it in concert yet.

(inset) Loretta Lynn, Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' (1980), and Sutton Foster Everett/Getty Coal Miner’s Daughter, Loretta Lynn’s bestselling autobiography-turned ...

Hot on the heels of Dolly Parton's life story being adapted for the stage in a Broadway-bound musical debuting in Nashville this spring, "Coal Miner's Daughter" vocalist Loretta Lynn also has a ...