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Great Escape: Loretta Lynn Sings at Cobb Energy Centre Friday
A unique opportunity is available this week to see this country music legend and enjoy the music of this "Coal Miner's Daughter."
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Country music legend Loretta Lynn is celebrating her 51st year as an award-winning country music artist.
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Miss Lynn will perform Friday evening at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in next-door Cobb County. Her performance begins at 7:30 p.m. at the theater, 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway, off Akers Mill Road at I-75 near the I-285 interchange.
Tickets are $45.95 or $92.05, including all fees, for orchestra seats. Box seats are $70. Mezzanine seats are $59.75. Grand tier seats are $45.95 or $59.75.
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More than all of her awards and acclamations, Loretta Lynn is known as the loving wife of her late husband Doo (Oliver Lynn) who passed away in 1996. Doo encouraged her to learn to play the guitar and to sing early in their marriage. He was 21 and she was 14 when they married. The Lynns had four children mainly during the 1950s.
Doo and Loretta's love story was told in the 1980 movie of her life titled "Coal Miner's Daughter" for which Sissy Spacek won the Academy Award as Best Actress for her portrayal of Miss Lynn. Tommy Lee Jones portrayed Doo. The movie was based on Miss Lynn's best-selling autobiography.
Miss Lynn was born in Butcher Holler, Ky., to Ted and Clara Webb as the second of their eight children. Growing up during the Great Depression, she recalls how her father would work all day hoeing corn and all night in the Van Lear coal mine.
So far throughout her singing and songwriting career, Miss Lynn has had 52 Top 10 hits and 16 number-one songs. She was the first woman to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award in 1972. She also is known for her duets with Ernest Tubb and later Conway Twitty.
Titled Van Lear Rose and produced by acclaimed guitarist Jack White, her most recent album was released in 2004.
