VIDEO : Loretta Lynn Is The 2018 CMT Artists Of The Year

The upcoming CMT Artists of the Year special will for the first time feature an all-female group of honorees. Rollingstone reports that it will now include a special award for one of the most celebrated women in country music. CMT announced on Tuesday that Loretta Lynn will be honored with the ?Artist of a Lifetime? award during the live telecast Wednesday, October 17th.
Sissy Spacek's Oscar-winning performance in Coal Miner?s Daughter brought Lynn?s hardscrabble life to the big screen in 1980.