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Loretta Lynn (Russ Harrington)
Every year the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress selects 25 recordings to be preserved for all time. One song chosen this year is Loretta Lynn’s 1970 hit “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” which tells the story of growing up poor in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky. Lynn, Nashville veteran Harold Ray Bradley, and Jack White of The White Stripes explain what makes the song a classic. Produced by Ben Manilla and Devon Strolovitch for Media Mechanics.
The Sounds of American Culture, our series highlighting works in the National Recording Registry, receives production support from the Library of Congress.
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I've loved Loertta Lynne since I first encountered country music as a 7-year-old playing with my sister's radio.l Glad to know the song is being archived by the Library of Congress.
It has never been duplicated, they can try for her style, phrasing, but it just can't be done twice. It an original which makes it a classic, like classic literature and art.
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