Laura Cantrell Remembers Kitty Wells

Kitty Wells did almost as much for country music as the guitar and fiddle. The Queen of Country died on Monday at the age of 92 after complications from a.

The Queen of Country Music, Kitty Wells, died Monday (July 16) at her home in Madison, Tenn., at age 92. Her husband of more than 70 years, country singer Johnnie Wright, died Sept. 27, 2011, at age 97. Wright essentially

Kitty Wells, a country singer with a piercing nasal twang who became one of the first female headliners in her profession and whose repertoire of tear-jerking songs about adultery and broken homes brought a woman's perspective to a male-dominated genre

She was among the first female popular musicians to sing about the experience of being female.