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Country music is cool now – even the pop girlies are leaning into it. I’ve finally been vindicated

Cowboy hats and flannels are no longer just the realm of country music – or lesbians

The Guardian - AU

Willie Nelson looks back on 7 decades of songwriting in new book 'Energy Follows Thought'

At age 90, Willie Nelson is looking back on the songs he's written across seven decades

The Independent UK

Review: John Grant sings Patsy Cline with Richard Hawley and band at the Manchester International Festival

Two singer-songwriters team up to breathe new life into the repertoire of a country legend

Manchester Evening News

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Nashville record label snaps up Stirling country singer's debut single

Francesca loved dancing around the house listening to Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Trisha Yearwood and Martina McBride.

Daily Record

Lavender Country: Patrick Haggerty’s transgressive queer music broke boundaries

The late musician saw overdue appreciation for his bold, pioneering 70s gay country album when he was in his golden years

The Guardian - UK

Loretta Lynn: Country music royalty who had string of award-winning hits

The musician’s candid songs gave voice to the daily struggles of working-class women

The Independent UK

Loretta Lynn was unapologetic in our 1987 interview: ‘I’ve had 8 of my songs banned!’

SAN DIEGO — There aren’t any country-music stars today like Loretta Lynn, the legendary singer-songwriter who died Tuesday in her sleep at the age of 90 at her Tennessee home in Hurricane Mills.

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Loretta Lynn chronicled women’s lives, from the new freedoms to defiant songs of survival

While Lynn claimed not to be a ‘big fan of women’s liberation’, her songs told a different story, documenting female pleasure, pain and physicality

The Guardian - UK

Loretta Lynn helped me love home

The country music matriarch, who died Tuesday at the age of 90, leaves behind a legacy of hard truths sung sweetly

Salon

Loretta Lynn obituary

Country singer and songwriter who was the defiant voice of the ordinary woman over a career that spanned six decades

The Guardian - UK

Loretta Lynn, coal miner’s daughter who transformed country music, dies at 90

Loretta Lynn, the firebrand singer and songwriter who transformed coal into diamonds by exploring her dirt-poor childhood in eastern Appalachia in her career-defining 1970 hit “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” died on Tuesday. She was 90.

Los Angeles Times

Loretta Lynn, country singer of love and hardship, dies aged 90

Kentucky-born singer went from poverty and teenage marriage to becoming one of the most celebrated stars of US country

The Guardian - UK

Tami Neilson: Kingmaker review – the queen of Kiwi country at her imperious best

The award-winning singer’s effortless fifth album channels Patsy Cline and features a soaring duet with fan Willie Nelson

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