In many ways, Patsy Cline was country music’s original female firebrand. Before crossover hits were a foregone conclusion, she dominated both the country and pop charts with songs like “Walking After ...
After more than five years of releasing singles that mostly failed to chart, Cline was just starting to find consistent chart success in the early 1960s. When “I Fall to Pieces” reached No. 1 in 1961, ...
"THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PATSY CLINE" by Margaret Jones (University of Illinois Press, distributed for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Country Music Foundation Press, 376 pages, $25).