Loretta Lynn's Butcher Holler RoadyGoat
1935Up a dirt lane in Butcher Hollow, a tiny hollow just southeast of Van Lear in Johnson County, Kentucky, sits the wooden cabin where country queen Loretta Lynn was born. She immortalized it in her 1970 song and the title of her memoir and film, 'Coal Miner's Daughter,' which opens, 'Well, I was born a coal miner's daughter, in a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler.' Her father, Ted Webb, worked the local coal mines. The same cabin produced two more recording artists, her sister Peggy Sue and her brother Jay Lee Webb; her younger sister, born Brenda Webb, became pop-country star Crystal Gayle. Tours of the homeplace are arranged through Webb's Grocery on Millers Creek Road, run by family. The holler still feels like the song.
