She became America's most successful female country music star. She had 16 number one hits in the country music chart, and she also sold 45 million records. The legend of the coal mine really colored everything she did after that. When she got a tour bus to go around the country, she went on touring into her 70s.
The former president may well ignore the January 6th committee’s summons; the whole affair may be unceremoniously shut down next year. But that is not to say the process has been in vain. Russia’s
intelligence failures during the war in Ukraine have taken the shine off the security services’ fearsome reputations. And remembering
Loretta Lynn, country music’s most-successful-ever female star.
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