Lynn wrote her first hit single, “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl,” released in 1960. With his help, she earned a recording contract with Decca Records, later MCA, and performed on the Grand Ole Opry stage. Her husband, whom she called “Doo” or “Doolittle,” urged her to sing professionally and helped promote her early career. People all over this holler can hear you.’ And I said, ‘Daddy, what difference does it make? They are all my cousins.’”
“Daddy used to come out on the porch where I would be singing and rocking the babies to sleep. “I was singing when I was born, I think,” she told the AP in 2016. Her younger sister, Crystal Gayle, is also a Grammy-winning country singer, scoring crossover hits with songs like “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” and “Half the Way.” Lynn’s daughter Patsy Lynn Russell also was a songwriter and producer of some of her albums. Her daddy played the banjo, her mama played the guitar and she grew up on the songs of the Carter Family. He wrote in his 2017 book “Johnny’s Cash and Charley’s Pride: Lasting Legends and Untold Adventures in Country Music” that she made up the name for the purposes of the song based on the names of the families that lived there.
She literally put the place on the map, according to Peter Cooper, senior director, producer and writer at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Born Loretta Webb, the second of eight children, she wrote that her birthplace was Butcher Holler, near the coal mining company town of Van Lear in the mountains of east Kentucky.
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