Fifty-three years ago, on Sunday, March 3, 1963, Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas shouldn't have been crying. Things were, after all, going well. Copas, who burst onto the country scene with four consecutive top ...

Of course, we can't list country music's most powerful women of all time without including Patsy Cline. Despite a tragically short life, her tremendous legacy has given her iconic status commensurate ...

In a January interview with Billboard, Maren Morris was asked whether country radio was more receptive to pop music collaborations than it used to be. Born Virginia Patterson Hensley, Cline paved the ...

On January 21, 1957, Patsy Cline made her national television debut on “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts,” which aired Monday nights on CBS. The show featured agents and managers from across the country ...

Patsy Cline was one of the fastest rising stars in country music when her life was tragically cut short on March 5, 1963. The iconic country singer died in a plane crash while flying back to Nashville ...

On March 7, 1953, Cline married her first husband, Gerald Cline. She signed a record contract the following year and recorded her first songs. Her husband reportedly hoped she would be a more ...

A 1961 country hit that helped redefine the genre has been ranked among the greatest songs of all time by Rolling Stone, cementing its place as one of the most enduring recordings in music history.

Every couple of months, at a venue somewhere in Michigan – the Old Town Playhouse in Traverse City, say, or the State Theater in Bay City, the singer Judy Harrison will head backstage to her dressing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few friendships in show business have been as legendary or heartfelt as the bond between the late country superstars Loretta Lynn ...

DILLON – To many, she’s the greatest female country singer of all time. To her fans, she’s a beloved singer whose early death at the age of 30 gave her the status of a music icon. But the real story ...

Jazz and country music have two things in common: the blues and a dependence on songs with heartfelt stories. In the case of jazz, those story songs came largely from urban musicals by way of Tin Pan ...

Editor's note: The crash that killed Patsy Cline happened March 5, 1963. This story recounting the tragedy and its impact in Nashville was originally published on the 53rd anniversary of her death.