A trailblazer is defined as a “pioneer in any field or endeavor,” and country music can boast of having more than a few trailblazers that shaped the genre that songwriter Harlan Howard described as, “Three chords and the truth.” People such as Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, and Kitty Wells had all made groundbreaking history by the time that Loretta Lynn, a young wife and mother who heralded from the hills of Kentucky, came along and boldly challenged the status quo.
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