The old and the new guard—a paradigm that can go one of two ways. It can either be positive in the sense that the old guard becomes a mentor for the younger one, or it can be negative, as toxic ...

Released during a period of mourning, the collection helped ensure that her voice and the timeless songs she recorded would continue to captivate audiences for generations.

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 ...

"THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PATSY CLINE" by Margaret Jones (University of Illinois Press, distributed for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Country Music Foundation Press, 376 pages, $25).

A 1957 television appearance on a groundbreaking country music show helped set one of the genre’s most iconic voices on the ...

In many ways, Patsy Cline was country music’s original female firebrand. Before crossover hits were a foregone conclusion, she dominated both the country and pop charts with songs like “Walking After ...

Country music legend Patsy Cline's life was a mixture of struggle, success and tragedy. Her journey to break into the male-dominated music business of the '50s and achieve pop crossover success has ...

June 14, 1961, marks both one of the darkest and most consequential days of one country musician's career.

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 29, 2025. Click here for that audio. Singer Patsy Cline helped create the Nashville sound, a crossover between country and pop, in the 1950s and ...

LOS ANGELES – Julie Fudge can guess the Top Five questions people will ask about her mother, singer Patsy Cline. Since Cline’s death in 1963, Fudge has been the authority on all things Patsy, even ...

Few friendships in show business have been as legendary or heartfelt as the bond between the late country superstars Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline. Though their friendship was cut short by Cline's ...

Before the plane crash that took her life, Cline was on track to be a huge star. But she wasn’t there yet, Fudge cautions. “There’s a common misconception that Patsy had all these things when, in ...