Honky-tonk women: the female artists who made it big in country music

It's not easy for women to survive in the macho world of country. Some of those who did, such as Jean Shepard and Bonnie Guitar, talk about how they did itJean Shepard is telling me about the time she met Hank Williams backstage just before he played a show in Bakersfield, California, near to where she grew up. "I was a young girl with big ambitions and I told him I was going to be a country singer. He said: 'Oh yeah? Well, there ain't much room in this business for a woman country singer.' That...

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