American Songwriter

Born on This Day in 1917, the Country Singer Who Pioneered a Brand-New Guitar Style and Sang About the Exploitation of Coal Miners

Merle Travis, who penned the timeless country hit "Sixteen Tons," was born Nov. 29, 1917, in Rosewood, Kentucky.
American Songwriter

The Only Song ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ Star Sissy Spacek Wrote with Loretta Lynn

In 1983, three years after singing on the soundtrack for Coal Miner’s Daughter, the biographical film of Loretta Lynn‘s life, and winning the Academy Award for Best Actress, Sissy Spacek released her ...