sissy spacek sang the songs in coal miner's daughter.
who sang the songs in coal miner's daughter?
sissy spacek
"coal miner's daughter" served as the name of lynn's 1976 autobiography, "coal miner's daughter: the autobiography", which lynn co-wrote. the song title also served as the name of lynn's 1980 biographical motion picture on her life, "coal miner's daughter". the movie starred actress sissy spacek as lynn and tommy lee jones as lynn's husband. the film's soundtrack featured spacek singing all of lynn's hits sung in the movie, including "coal miner's daughter". 





















































"coal miner's daughter" helped provide a better understanding of lynn, and led to the widespread fascination with her life story.
coal miner's daughter (song)
"the coal miner" statue was originally commissioned in 1963 by the state of illinois, after 15 years of advocacy work by coal miner, artist, and poet vachel davis (1898–1966). the illinois legislature appropriated $15,000 for the construction and casting of a memorial to illinois coal miners. davis, who was acquainted with artist john j. szaton, recommended that he submit a sketch for the monument based on davis's 1946 painting "american coal miner". the legislature accepted szaton's initial sketch. after submitting an model of the sculpture, which was approved, szaton received a contract to create the full-scale piece. szaton created a full-scale plaster sculpture in his tinley park studio before casting the statue in bronze. the plaster sculpture is still able to be viewed in the tinley park historical society museum. the sculpture, dedicated in illinois in 1964, was intended to commemorate the illinois coal miners who had been killed in the state's coal mines. it is installed on the north end of the illinois state capitol's lawn in springfield, illinois, and faces second street. the dedication ceremony took place on october 16, 1964, with speeches from illinois governor otto kerner, jr. and paul powell, former speaker of the illinois house of representatives. michael f. widman jr. represented the united mine workers of america at the dedication ceremony, standing in for john l. lewis, president of the united mine workers, who was ill and unable to attend. a letter from lewis commended the state of illinois for being the first to honor their coal miners with such a memorial. a plaque was added in 1981 citing szaton as its sculptor. the illinois statue is owned and administered by the state of illinois.
coal miner (statue)