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All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

Loretta Lynn

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Loretta Lynn
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: April 14
Guitarist
Musician
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Screenwriter
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Singer-Songwriter
Violinist
Butcher Holler
Kentucky
Loretta Webb
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