Kitty Wells shocked the country music scene when she first sang about honky tonks and cheating husbands 60 years ago, but it propelled her to stardom and blazed a path for the strong female voices ...

Jeannie Seely was a 12-year-old girl in rural Pennsylvania when she first heard Kitty Wells’ song “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” It was 1952, and Wells’ unlikely hit was climbing the ...

Kitty Wells, who kicked down the doors through which every female country singer from Loretta Lynn to Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift has since walked, died Monday in Nashville. She was 92 and still ...

NASHVILLE -- Before Kitty Wells, men didn’t just rule the roost in country music, they owned it. It wasn’t until her 1952 hit, “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” that a solo female country ...

Young country up-and-comer Lauren Alaina paid her respects to country legend Kitty Wells last night (July 25) at the Grand Ole Opry. Wells died on July 16, and the 17-year-old singer said goodbye in ...

LITTLE ROCK — Patsy Cline’s singing was on the rise at the same time Kitty Wells’ royal career was winding down. They crossed in the middle, 1961, the year each scored a hit single - Cline’s first ...

NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Kitty Wells, the "Queen of Country Music," died this morning at her home in Nashville surrounded by family members, of complications from a stroke. She was 92. NASHVILLE (Reuters ...

Kitty Wells revolutionized country music by becoming its first big female solo star. Wells died today at home in Nashville, Tenn., of complications from a stroke. She was 92 years old. Wells sang ...

The singer's career spanned eight decades, with hits including "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," a retort to Hank Thompson’s “The Wild Side of Life.” By Erik Pedersen Kitty Wells - H 2012 ...

Johnnie Wright, a member of the innovative country vocal duo Johnnie and Jack and the husband and manager to singer Kitty Wells, died of undisclosed causes Sept. 27 at his home in Madison, Tenn. He ...

Country singer Kitty Wells, the most successful and influential female country singer of the 1950s and early ’60s and one of a handful of women to have significant impact at a time when the music was ...