Way before Emmylou Harris or even Patsy Cline, women were singing country songs to make your heart crack. Among these 25 examples from pre-WW2, only the Carter Family and Patsy Montana will be ...
In the early 1950s, Cline began singing with local country bandleader Bill Peer. It was Peer who encouraged her to change her stage name – she took the surname of her new husband, Gerald Cline, and ...