Laura Cantrell: Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music – review

(Spit and Polish) A charmingly cool, respectful tribute to the country superstar of the 1950s and 60s from the singer who became a heroine of the alt.country scene 40 years later. Now 91, Kitty Wells is the oldest living member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, revered in Nashville as the first artist to prove that a female country singer could become a best-seller, leading the way for the later success of Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette. Her songs were mostly sing-along weepies, and are revived...

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