Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1970 country song written and performed by Loretta Lynn. It was released as a single on October 5, 1970, from the album Coal Miner's Daughter, produced by Owen Bradley at Bradley's Barn in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. The song tells the story of Lynn's coal-mining father in rural Butcher Hollow, Kentucky during the Great Depression - and of her childhood with a mother who worked hard, washing on a washboard and living in poverty with barefoot children. It became a number one hit on the Billboard country chart and also reached the Hot 100, helping to establish Lynn's signature album of the same name. The track is widely regarded as one of country music's most autobiographical and significant recordings, later earning a Grammy Hall of Fame induction and a place on the RIAA Songs of the Century list. It has been covered many times, including a 1980 film soundtrack version by Sissy Spacek and a 2010 collaboration with Sheryl Crow and Miranda Lambert on Coal Miner’s Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn.
