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Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl

Courtesy of David McClister
Loretta Lynn

Fri. Mar. 25 at 9pm on WKAR-HD 23.1 | Journey with the Coal Miner’s Daughter country legend on her hard-fought road to stardom.

Explore the country legend’s hard-fought road to stardom. From her Appalachian roots to the Oscar-winning biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter, Loretta Lynn struggled to balance family and her music career and is still going strong over 50 years later.

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