Kitty Wells: Feminist Country Godmother to Britney Spears

Listening to Kitty Wells on an old Decca LP Kitty Wells' Greatest Hits reissued on tape was a revelation. She sounds tense, mannered, almost intensely even about what's going on . . . It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels was the first No. 1 countryFor country music, the passing of Queen Kitty Wells was no less of an event, though it feels appropriate to observe it not with pomp and grandiose gestures, but with the far more intimate act of listening closely to a body ofKitty Wells has passed away. The iconic country music singer was 92 years old.Her legacy will always be her shattering of the glass ceiling for aspiring female country singers, but Kitty Wells lives on in a number of ways and in the work of many other women. Back in the early 1950s, the ceiling wasn't actually glass for aspiringHer legacy will always be her shattering of the glass ceiling for

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