Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music is the fifth full-length from New York City singer/songwriter Laura Cantrell, and as you probably deduced from the album’s title, the LP pays tribute to country music’s first female star. Cantrell recorded the 10-track record in Nashville, the city where both she and Wells were born. Aside from covering some of Wells’ most loved songs, Cantrell kicks off the album with the title track, a song she co-wrote with Amy Allison. Cantrell will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with her.
Cantrell: OK, it is known that I’m a real fanatic when it comes to the music of Kitty Wells. She was country music’s first commercially successful female artist, and something about that “first” has led people to condense her story to the impact of her first hit record, 1952’s “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” But the body of music she created is full of amazing songs and recordings that stretch from the late ’40s to the late ’70s. Check out the piercing “A Wedding Ring Ago” from 1952, the lush “Dark Moon” from 1960 or her take on Dylan’s “Forever Young” from 1974. She’s hip.
Video after the jump.
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