On March 5th, 1963, a plane carrying one of country music’s most famous voices, Patsy Cline, crashed in the woods near Camden, Tennessee, killing all onboard: Cline, Grand Ole Opry members Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins, and pilot Randy Hughes.
Cline was on her way home from Kansas City, Kansas, where she’d played a benefit show — ironically, to raise money for the family of radio DJ “Cactus Jack” Call, who had died in a car crash three months earlier — with help from Copas, Hawkins and other Grand Ole Opry members like George Jones.
Cline was on her way home from Kansas City, Kansas, where she’d played a benefit show — ironically, to raise money for the family of radio DJ “Cactus Jack” Call, who had died in a car crash three months earlier — with help from Copas, Hawkins and other Grand Ole Opry members like George Jones.
- 3/5/2021
- by Andrew Leahey
- Rollingstone.com
As a young, aspiring “girl singer” arriving in Nashville in the early Sixties, Loretta Lynn found a mentor in established artist Patsy Cline. Like Cline, Lynn was signed to Decca Records, produced by Owen Bradley, and a regular performer on the Grand Ole Opry. She may have landed in Music City a naïve Kentucky coal miner’s daughter, but she ended the decade as the reigning queen of country music.
Cline, however, would not live long enough to share in her friend’s greatest success. Fifty-seven years ago today, on the night of March 5th,...
Cline, however, would not live long enough to share in her friend’s greatest success. Fifty-seven years ago today, on the night of March 5th,...
- 3/5/2020
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Blues icon B.B. King often said in interviews that the blues and country music were “first cousins.” Riley B. “Blues Boy” King was born on this day in 1925, and is being paid tribute in today’s Google Doodle, which depicts the legendary musician playing his signature guitar, “Lucille.” Hitchhiking to Memphis in 1947 from his home in tiny Itta Bena, Mississippi, King would soon become one of the most renowned blues musicians in the world. While he excelled as a solo artist King also collaborated with a number of acts outside blues,...
- 9/16/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
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