In the late ’50s, “Don Owens’s TV Jamboree” was a must-see every Saturday for country music fans across the Washington metro area. A promoter and DJ with a carnival-barker’s zeal, Owens was known to ...

Detective work locates dozens of recorded live performances, including 15 songs the late country icon never released Nancy Kruh is a Nashville-based writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has covered the ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 29, 2025. Click here for that audio. Singer Patsy Cline helped create the Nashville sound, a crossover between country and pop, in the 1950s and ...

Country western music icon Patsy Cline was born just one year after the birth of my own mom Peggy. Patsy was born Sept. 8, 1932, and mom Peggy, Aug. 17, 1931. Tragically, Patsy died at age 30 in March ...

Singer Patsy Cline helped create the Nashville sound, a crossover between country and pop, in the 1950s and 1960s. But in 1963, she died in a plane crash at just 30 years old. Still, her legacy lives ...

She was a legendary country and pop music crooner of the 1950s and ’60s, known for her smooth-as-silk contralto voice and throaty vocals. Now the life of Patsy Cline is returning to the stage in Point ...

Cowboy hats and Nashville-style dresses proliferated Thursday night in Oakbrook Terrace. Not the first time I’ve noticed that fans of country music are more common in Chicago’s western suburbs than ...