“I just sing like I hurt inside. If you can’t do it with feeling, then don’t,” Cline once said of her passion for performing — and she sadly hurt a lot throughout her too-short career. The ...

Alan Stoker talks about Patsy's gift as a singer and an artist. CLIP: 2:09 Listen to how Patsy Cline "fibbed" to perform on CBS How Patsy Cline fibbed in order to get onto Arthur Godfrey's CBS show to ...

When Patsy Cline began working in country music, female headliners were rare. Her tenacity and talent allowed her to overcome bias and become one of the first female solo artists in country music.

Although she died tragically in a plane crash at just 30 years old, Patsy Cline's songs are some of country music's most essential. Between 1954, when she signed with Four Star Records, and 1963, when ...

We've all heard the old saying "adversity breeds success," a quotation from a famous philosopher many years ago. But in the case of songwriters, it should have been added that "adversity plus talent – ...

Country music was changing in a big way in the 1960s, and these three songs from 1961 played an important part.

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 ...

Click here for the original audio. A Patsy Cline album released earlier this year, called “Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954-1963),” includes live tracks that have never been public until now.

Every couple of months, at a venue somewhere in Michigan – the Old Town Playhouse in Traverse City, say, or the State Theater in Bay City, the singer Judy Harrison will head backstage to her dressing ...

Like most kids my age, I was more into this new music coming from across the ocean, but something in her voice immediately grabbed me. I’m sure many people felt the same. I know Rebecca Miner did.