The answer to that question is the answer to most queries in the music industry: because it pays. Cline had yet to score a hit with her record label, Four Star Records, and the suits were getting ...

If there were a Mount Rushmore of country music artists, you’d have a tough time excluding Patsy Cline from it. The fact that all her accomplishments occurred before her tragic death at age 30 make ...

A 1961 crossover hit by Patsy Cline, written by Willie Nelson, remains one of the most celebrated country songs ever recorded.