KItty Wells

Loretta Lynn onstage/ Reba McEntire/ Dolly Parton

Female Country Singers: The Top 45 of All Time

By Bobbie Jean Sawyer

Country singer Kitty Wells poses for a portrait with an acoustic guitar in 1954 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels' Paved the Way for Female Country Artists

By Jeremy Burchard

Mickey Guyton performs onstage during the 2021 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 21, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for MRC)/ Maren Morris attends the 57th Academy of Country Music Awards at Allegiant Stadium on March 07, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for ACM)/ Co-host Dolly Parton speaks onstage during the 57th Academy of Country Music Awards at Allegiant Stadium on March 07, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for ACM)

15 Country and Americana Songs About Female Empowerment

By Bobbie Jean Sawyer

Louisiana Hayride

The Immense Influence of the 'Louisiana Hayride'

By Wide Open Country Staff

Kitty Wells Was the First Solo Woman to Have a No. 1 Hit on the Country Charts

By Courtney Fox

Hank Thompson

Remembering Hank Thompson's Incredible Seven-Decade Career

5 Great Songs By Grand Ole Opry Legend Jan Howard

Tami Neilson on Learning From Kitty Wells, Empowering Women and New Album 'Chickaboom!'

By Bobbie Jean Sawyer

Remembering Don Gibson, Country Music's 'Sad Poet'

By Jeremy Burchard

It wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels

'How Far is Heaven' is Still a Kitty Wells Classic

By Courtney Fox