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In a taped package before she took to the stage, Russell said, \"I love singing from the heart, and I think this is a perfect song for that. I mean, it's my grandma's song -- can't get much closer to the heart than your own blood.\"

The 24-year-old said she knows the song \"like the back of my hand\" and wanted to do this rendition as an ode to her grandmother \"like a way of hugging her.\"

\"I need to be proud that I am a granddaughter of Loretta Lynn,\" she said. \"I'm proud to be a coal miner's great-granddaughter.\"

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Russell took to Instagram after the show to say that she \"felt like myself tonight.\"

Lynn, a legend in the country music world, died in October 2022 at the age of 90.

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