Kitty Wells: Feminist Country Godmother to Britney Spears

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.

Kitty Wells: Pop's Country Godmother

Listening to Kitty Wells on an old Decca LP Kitty Wells' Greatest Hits reissued on tape was a revelation. She sounds tense, mannered, almost intensely even about what's going on . . . It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels was the first No. 1 country

Country singer Kitty Wells, the most successful and influential female country singer of the 1950s and early '60s and one of a handful of women to have significant impact at a time when the music was overwhelmingly dominated by men, died Monday in

Listening to Kitty Wells on an old Decca LP Kitty Wells' Greatest Hits reissued on tape was a revelation. She sounds tense, mannered, almost intensely even about what's going on . . . It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels was the first No. 1 country

Kitty Wells, Country Music's First Female Superstar, Dies at 92. Kitty Wells, best known for her 1952 hit, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," died today from complications from a stroke. She was 92. Wells released

Kitty Wells, the first female superstar of country music, has died at the age of 92. The singer's family says Wells died at her home Monday after complications from a stroke.

Kitty Wells: Pop's Country Godmother

Listening to Kitty Wells on an old Decca LP Kitty Wells' Greatest Hits reissued on tape was a revelation. She sounds tense, mannered, almost intensely even about what's going on . . . It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels was the first No. 1 country

Country singer Kitty Wells, the most successful and influential female country singer of the 1950s and early '60s and one of a handful of women to have significant impact at a time when the music was overwhelmingly dominated by men, died Monday in

Listening to Kitty Wells on an old Decca LP Kitty Wells' Greatest Hits reissued on tape was a revelation. She sounds tense, mannered, almost intensely even about what's going on . . . It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels was the first No. 1 country

Kitty Wells, Country Music's First Female Superstar, Dies at 92. Kitty Wells, best known for her 1952 hit, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," died today from complications from a stroke. She was 92. Wells released

Kitty Wells, the first female superstar of country music, has died at the age of 92. The singer's family says Wells died at her home Monday after complications from a stroke.

Kitty Wells, country music star, dies at 92

JBNBlog has been playing the music of three departed heroes last night & this morning. Country queen Kitty Wells, 92, and Deep Purple's organist/keyboardist Jon Lord, 71, often played London. I interviewed Kitty Wells, too. The third of Monday's losses

Her recording of 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels' in 1952 was the first No. 1 hit by a woman soloist on the country music charts.

Kitty Wells did almost as much for country music as the guitar and fiddle. The Queen of Country died on Monday at the age of 92 after complications from a.

Her recording of 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels' in 1952 was the first No. 1 hit by a woman soloist on the country music charts.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kitty Wells, the first female superstar of country music, has died at the age of 92. The singer's family says Wells died at her home Monday after complications from a stroke.