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 ...

Wells' 1952 hit 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels' was the first No. 1 by a woman soloist on the country music charts. Kitty Wells, the first female superstar of country music, has died at the ...

Country music hasn’t always been a hospitable place for women. The female artists who managed to rise through the ranks were bound by certain conventions. That is, until Kitty Wells came along with ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Without Kitty Wells, there might be no Taylor Swift. Or Miranda Lambert. Or Loretta Lynn. She was THE pioneer, the first female singer with enough spunk and fire to get noticed in ...

Kitty Wells, who died Monday in her home in Madison, Tenn., was known as a major figure in the early foundation of country music. WSJ's rock and pop critic Jim Fusilli explains on Off Duty how Wells ...