Patsy Cline singing at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry in this undated photo. She died in a plane crash in Tennesse in 1963.
(Associated Press File)
Critic's Notebook
Still crazy for Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline singing at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry in this undated photo. She died in a plane crash in Tennesse in 1963.
(Associated Press File)
Patsy Cline was my gateway drug to country music. I say drug because that’s exactly how it felt, heady and euphoric, when I first heard Cline’s “Leavin’ on Your Mind’’ on a jukebox (!) at a diner (!!) in the Midwest. To this teenager growing up in the early 1990s, Patsy Cline was just as heavy as Nirvana and more ... (Full article: 637 words)
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