Kitty Wells

The 'Queen of Country Music' in the postwar era, she sang It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk AngelsKitty Wells, who has died aged 92, made a place for the female country singer in the postwar era, opening doors through which would follow Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and many other women determined to match their male counterparts all the way. Piercing and penetrating, Wells's was the quintessential country voice of desolation and atonement.There had been female singers in country mus...

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