Classic Women In Country Music on vinyl records From The Hills and Plains to Outlaw to Country Pop

Classic Women In Country Music on vinyl records From The Hills and Plains To Outlaw To Country Pop - Gather round for some great Classic Country music culled from original vinyl LP records!

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Welcome to another Classic Country Music selection episode where I take twelve original vinyl record albums and dedicate myself to finding one song off of each to go on a killer playlist.
This playlist is a little different… I’m calling it “The Other Women Of Country”. These aren’t the ladies you are gonna find on the Mount Rushmore of country music. These aren’t your Dolly Partons, your Loretta Lynns or your Patsy Clines… but MAYBE we’ll find a few that should be.

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Jewel Faye Smith, known professionally as Sammi Smith, was an American country music singer and songwriter. She is best known for her 1971 country-pop crossover hit "Help Me Make It Through the Night", which was written by Kris Kristofferson. She became one of the few women in the outlaw country movement during the 1970s. 02:23 Dottie WestDorothy Marie Marsh West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and fellow recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists. West's career started in the 1960s, with her top-10 hit, "Here Comes My Baby Back Again", which won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1965, the first woman in country music to receive a Grammy.

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Myrna Joy "Jody" Miller was an American country music singer. 04:54 Kate Wolf Kate Wolf (born Kathryn Louise Allen) was an American folk singer and songwriter. Though her career was relatively short, she had a significant impact on the folk music scene. Her songs have since been recorded by artists such as Nanci Griffith and Emmylou Harris (whose recording of "Love Still Remains" was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1999).

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Marilyn Jeanne Seely is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. She also has several acting credits and published a book. Seely found success with the Grammy Award-winning hit "Don't Touch Me" (1966). Her soul-inspired vocal delivery was praised by music professionals, who gave her the nickname of "Miss Country Soul".

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Judy Lynn Kelly (born Judy Lynn Voiten), better known by her stage name Judy Lynn, was an American country music singer and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Idaho in 1955. 09:59 Bobbi MartinBarbara Ann "Bobbi" Martin was an American country and pop music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She grew up in Oslo, Minnesota and began her singing career in Baltimore, working her way up from local venues onto the national nightclub circuit.

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Connie Smith (born Constance June Meador) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Smith has been nominated for 11 Grammy Awards, including eight nominations for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Rolling Stone included her on their list of the 100 greatest country music artists and CMT ranked her among the top ten in their list of the 40 greatest women of country music. She has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry cast since 1965.

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Jeannie C. Riley is an American country music and gospel singer. She is best known for her 1968 country and pop hit "Harper Valley PTA", which missed by one week simultaneously becoming the Billboard Country and Pop number-one hit.

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Bonnie Buckingham, better known as Bonnie Guitar, was an American singer, musician, producer, and businesswoman. She was best known for her 1957 country-pop crossover hit "Dark Moon". She became one of the first female country music singers to have hit songs cross over from the country charts to the pop charts.

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Gerrie Lynn

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Goldie Hill was an American country music singer. She was one of the first women in country music, and became one of the first women to reach the top of the country music charts with her No. 1 1953 hit, "I Let the Stars Get In My Eyes". Along with Kitty Wells and Jean Shepard she helped set the standard for later women in country music.

At The Empathic Ear, we explore Classic American Country Music. Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated with blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes (most commonly known as "Honky Tonk music") with generally simple forms, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to hillbilly music; it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century.