Loretta Lynn recuperating after hospitalization for pneumonia

Oct. 24, 2011 2:15 PM PT

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Country queen Loretta Lynn is back home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn., after being hospitalized briefly to treat the beginning stages of bacterial pneumonia.

“Around 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning, Loretta awoke on her tour bus complaining that she was having a hard time breathing,” according to a statement released Monday by the 76-year-old singer’s office.

The ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ was taken to the emergency room at a hospital in Bowling Green, Ky., diagnosed with pneumonia, treated and released.

“It was one scary night,” Lynn said in the same statement. “But I am feeling better and just gonna take it easy for a couple of weeks.”

She is expected to make her next scheduled appearance on Nov. 3 in Knoxville, Tenn. Earlier this year, she had to skip a booking at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio after undergoing knee surgery.

In Loretta Lynn, country meets hip

Mining the old passion

-- Randy Lewis

Pop & Hiss

Randy Lewis

Randy Lewis covered pop music for the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 2020, working in that time as a reporter, music critic and editor for the Calendar section. He has interviewed most of the members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He’s also written first-person accounts of performing the music of Shostakovich and Prokofiev on clarinet and singing Mozart’s Requiem with world-class professionals. In addition, he enjoys belting out “Wooly Bully” in dive bars with his band, the Rounders.