When Kitty Wells died Monday at the age of 92, country music lost one of its few remaining stars from the midcentury golden age of honky-tonk. But the rest of us lost something even more significant: An architect of modern pop, one of the first female
Kitty Wells, who died Monday at age 92, was born in Nashville to a family of country musicians, and within that simple truth lies a fascinating narrative. Her story spans nearly a century, and its central plot points involve not only busting apart
Her legacy will always be her shattering of the glass ceiling for aspiring female country singers, but Kitty Wells lives on in a number of ways and in the work of many other women. Back in the early 1950s, the ceiling wasn't actually glass for aspiring
Kitty Wells, who died Monday at age 92, was born in Nashville to a family of country musicians, and within that simple truth lies a fascinating narrative. Her story spans nearly a century, and its central plot points involve not only busting apart
Taylor Swift, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton may have been hailed as country music royalty over they years, but there was only ever one "Queen of Country Music." That was Kitty Wells, who passed away in Nashville on July 16. She was 92.
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