As 2011 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors.
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: I’m not a one-woman gal, and my interest in female country artists extends beyond the superstars. I’ve always been fascinated by the female members of the Grand Ole Opry, the most senior of them artists who came up in the Opry’s golden years of the ’50s and ’60s. Jean Shepard, their elder stateswoman, was just inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame a few months ago. The next generation includes superb singers Jeannie Seely, Connie Smith and the Whites, and the late, great Skeeter Davis and Martha Carson were standouts as well. There’s a lot of talent and some great songs associated with this group of women artists.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-PiAGb-Au0
