“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Thinking back to the 1960s, there are a lot of great country songs. These are three we know your mom would like.