Johnny Wright, a country music pioneer who had hits as a singer in the duo Johnnie and Jack and guided the career of his wife, Kitty Wells, died of natural causes early Tuesday, Sept. 27, in Nashville ...

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 ...

Country singer Johnnie Wright, who had a No. 1 hit in 1965 with 'Hello Vietnam,' has died. The Grand Ole Opry member passed away at his home today (Sept. 27) in Madison, Tenn. He was 97. Married to ...

Jeannie Seely was a 12-year-old girl in rural Pennsylvania when she first heard Kitty Wells’ song “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” It was 1952, and Wells’ unlikely hit was climbing the ...

Singer Emmylou Harris says a 33-year-old housewife named Kitty Wells turned both country music and the country on its head with "It Wasn't God Who... In 1952, Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life" ...

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 ...

Kitty Wells and Johnnie Wright, June Carter and Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette and George Jones, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw: The history of country music abounds with couples whose love and lives have, to ...

The singer's family said she died peacefully at home after complications from a stroke. Her solo recording career lasted from 1952 to the late 1970s and she made concert tours from the late 1930s ...