Country Pop Bites: Loretta Lynn – May 18

Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 2004 Loretta Lynn shot a video with rocker Jack White, of The White Stripes, for her song "Portland, Oregon"?

It’s true! The location was a barn in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

Check out the video!

Here are 5 little known facts about Loretta Lynn.

• Her younger sister, Brenda Gayle Webb, also went on to become a singer, performing as Crystal Gayle.
• Lynn married Oliver "Mooney" Lynn just a few months before her 14th birthday in January 1948.
• She and Patsy Cline were good friends.
• She published her first autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, in 1976. In 1980, the film version of the book was released, starring Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones as her husband.
• Her 34-year-old son, Jack Benny Lynn, drowned after trying to wade across a river on horseback in July 1984.