Jeannie Seely was a 12-year-old girl in rural Pennsylvania when she first heard Kitty Wells’ song “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” It was 1952, and Wells’ unlikely hit was climbing the ...
Wells sang about the real problems of postwar life and the sad side of domesticity. Kitty Wells revolutionized country music by becoming its first big female solo star. Wells died today at home in ...