HURRICANE MILLS, Tenn. — “I really didn’t mean to knock his teeth out.” Over a lunchtime bowl of chicken noodle soup in the glass-walled dining room of her modern, hillside mansion here, Loretta Lynn was recounting a scuffle she had with her hard-drinking husband a few years before she started writing and singing the succinct, forthright songs that made her the undisputed queen of country music. Her eyes, a brilliant star-sapphire blue, still blazed at the memory.

Ms. Lynn, 83, was eager to talk about “Full Circle” (Sony Legacy), her first new album since 2004 and the first selection from a huge trove of recent recordings. The album is due on Friday, March 4, the same day PBS will broadcast the premiere of an American Masters documentary, “Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl.” (Ms. Lynn wasn’t enamored of the film title: “It’s hills, not mountains.”)

Lately she has been writing new songs and completing ones she started decades ago, working with younger collaborators like the songwriter Todd Snider and longtime friends like John Carter Cash. And she continues to draw lessons from a life in which hard work, talent, instinct and stubborn determination have sustained her for more than 50 years as a country star. “Who’s Gonna Miss Me?,” a new song on “Full Circle,” asks, “Who’s gonna want to follow in my footsteps?”; generations of country songwriters already have.

Ms. Lynn’s tale of tooth-wrecking dated back to a Saturday in the early 1950s. Born Loretta Webb in 1932, she had married at 15 and moved from her Kentucky hometown, Butcher Hollow, to Washington State with her husband, Mooney Lynn, nicknamed Doo. They already had four children. That Saturday Doo arrived as she was holding a toddler in each arm: Ernest Ray, who still plays guitar in her band, and Cissy.