Sunday Morning Country: Kitty Wells

Sunday, 28th February 2010

Kitty Wells was born in 1919 and she's the oldest living member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. So it's well past time she featured here and, this being so, it's sensible to play her first big hit It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels. If Hank Williams was the inspiration for everyone who followed him then, after the Carter Family, you can argue that Kitty Wells played a similar role on the distaff side of country.

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John T

February 28th, 2010 12:12pm Report this comment

Another great choice, Alex. Kitty Wells' voice is featured on the soundtrack of "Crazy Heart" singing "Searching For Someone Like You". Anyone who is thinking of buying the album should seek out the 23 track version ( called the "Deluxe Edition" in Australia) not the 16 track one: for some reason Kitty didn't make the last 16.

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