A coal miner’s daughter in Appalachia who became the reigning queen of country music playing on the Grand Ole Opry stage, Loretta Lynn's life was the stuff of Hollywood movies. It was only a matter of ...
near the coal mining company town of Van Lear in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. There really wasn’t a Butcher Holler, however. She made up the name for the purposes of the song, based on the ...