The year before the release of this EP, Cline shared many of her name-making hits. Her successful run was made all the more critical because of a near-fatal car accident that preceded it. Cline got ...

More than six decades after her passing, Patsy Cline remains a guiding light in Americana. Though her dazzling career was tragically cut short, the unforgettable music she recorded between the early ...

Bob Moore, whose unassuming bassline you have absolutely heard before on country music relics by George Jones, Loretta Lynn, and Tammy Wynette, was born in Nashville on this day in 1932. Moore’s ...

Legendary singer Patsy Cline’s hit song, “Crazy,” was originally written and recorded by none other than superstar Willie Nelson. And Cline initially faced a couple of obstacles in turning his demo ...

Country legend Patsy Cline died in 1963 at the age of 30, having only recorded a relatively small selection of songs. But her voice is still considered one of the best in the genre by fellow icons and ...

WAKEFIELD, R.I. — One of her sold-out concerts actually registered a 2.3 magnitude on a seismograph and caused earthquake tremors, the result of a massive sound system and a stadium full of flailing ...

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 1956, songwriter Don Gibson made his chart debut with a single for MGM Records that he had written called “Sweet Dreams” – sometimes credited as “Sweet Dreams (of You”). The hopelessly forlorn tune ...