Kitty Wells

She wore high necked gingham dresses, and even her stage name, Kitty, was ultra feminine. She didn't set out to break any gender barriers, but that is exactly what Kitty Wells did when she became the first solo female country singer to hit #1. "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" stayed at #1 for fifteen consecutive weeks in 1952.

She died yesterday at the age of 92, this woman who paved the way for artists like Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker and Taylor Swift. She is part of an exclusive group I think of as the First Woman To Ever Club. They are women of my grandmother's and my mother's generation, these ladies who changed the world so that my granddaughters can grow up knowing they can be anything they want to be, they can do anything they want to do.

Susan

"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" written by Jay Miller