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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Country music icon Kitty Wells died at her home in Nashville on July 16 of complications resulting from a stroke. She was 92. Known as the “Queen of Country Music,” Wells’ career spanned more than ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kitty Wells, who was on the verge of quitting music to be a homemaker when she recorded a hit in 1952 that struck a chord with women and began opening doors for them in country ...

She was among the first female popular musicians to sing about the experience of being female—and to face derision from the industry's good old boys for doing so. When Kitty Wells died Monday at the ...

Kitty Wells, the "Queen of Country Music," died today (July 16) after complications from a stroke. She was 92 years old. The future country icon was born Ellen Muriel Deason in Nashville, Tenn., and ...

NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Kitty Wells, the "Queen of Country Music" who opened the door to a host of female country music headliners, died on Monday at her home in Nashville of complications from a stroke ...