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 ...

But as a Tennessean on the brink of retirement would respond six months later, “from the start most every heart that’s ever broken was because there always was a man to blame.” Kitty Wells, an RCA ...

If you’re a fan of Willie Nelson, George Strait or Charley Crockett, cue up “The Wild Side of Life” on Sept. 3 to mark the 100th birthday of a fellow Texan who inspired them: Honky-tonk swing pioneer ...

DALLAS -- Hank Thompson, who mixed honky-tonk and Western swing on such hits as A Six Pack to Go and The Wild Side of Life, has died. The country singer and bandleader was 82. Thompson died of lung ...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Honky-tonk baritone Hank Thompson, the "King of Western Swing" who churned out a string of top 10 country hits during a decades-long career, has died at 82, his family ...