Country music is rich with mythic figures whose lore involves no small amount of playacting: the honky-tonk hellraiser brought up by doting middle-class parents; the God-fearing family man whose smile eclipses a secret sordid life. Loretta Lynn, who turns 90 today, is the rare real deal, a novelesque symbol of country-and-western integrity since she began racking up hits in the 1960s.
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