We often idealize the notion of a record deal, assuming such an agreement would beget the first of many hits for up-and-coming performers like Cline. But critics often consider her first few years at ...

As improbable as the news may seem, it's true: More than six decades after her much-too-soon death, new music by country legend Patsy Cline is being released! On Saturday, a limited-edition two-LP set ...

On this day (November 27) in 1961, Patsy Cline released her sophomore album Showcase. The release came four years after her self-titled debut record dropped in 1957. It was the only album Cline ...

On March 7, 1953, Cline married her first husband, Gerald Cline. She signed a record contract the following year and recorded her first songs. Her husband reportedly hoped she would be a more ...

In the late ’50s, “Don Owens’s TV Jamboree” was a must-see every Saturday for country music fans across the Washington metro area. A promoter and DJ with a carnival-barker’s zeal, Owens was known to ...

In July 1961, Loretta Lynn walked on stage at the Midnight Jamboree in downtown Nashville and performed a tribute that would change her life — and country music history — from that moment forward.

As a young, aspiring “girl singer” arriving in Nashville in the early Sixties, Loretta Lynn found a mentor in established artist Patsy Cline. Like Cline, Lynn was signed to Decca Records, produced by ...

As two of country music's most storied icons, Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn have both lived well-documented lives, each artist the subject of a wide variety of books, films and even songs. However, a ...

Jazz and country music have two things in common: the blues and a dependence on songs with heartfelt stories. In the case of jazz, those story songs came largely from urban musicals by way of Tin Pan ...

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