jack white

Every successful female country music artist owes it all to Loretta Lynn. Fueled by her hardscrabble upbringing in rural Kentucky, songs like “You Ain’t Woman Enough” and the autobiographical “Coal Miner’s Daughter” propelled her to an Entertainer of the Year trophy at the 72 CMA Awards. She was the first woman ever to hold that title. On this day (April 27) in 2004, the 72-year-old Lynn gave us yet another masterpiece with Van Lear Rose , produced by none other than ex-White Stripes frontman Jack White. Van Lear Rose was another homage to Lynn’s blue-collar childhood, named for the coal mines