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Behind the Music: Patsy Cline

I had a good laugh recently when a colleague described Patsy Cline’s music as being for “old people.” It’s amusing how music can be categorized by age, especially when such timeless classics continue to resonate with listeners of all generations. I enjoy the older music like Hank Williams, Little Jimmy Dickens, George Jones and many others from the 50s and 60s county, but none of them touch me in a way Patsy Cline. I’ve shared before how my fandom for her music started when I seen the documentary movie called Sweet Dreams. That’s where I was introduced to classics like “Crazy”, “I Fall to Pieces” and “Walking after Midnight”. 

As time went on I slowly started listening to more of her music, fast forward to today in the age of Spotify, I’ve been introduced to so many timeless classics of hers, it’s almost like rediscovering Patsy for the very first time. As we’ve entered the Information Age I’ve been searching the web reading so much about her life, the start of her career and her death, and I can tell you as good of a film that Sweet Dreams was, it just gave the image and who Patsy was. For me, listening to her music is like traveling back in time and I can only imagine what it would have been like to see and capture her raw emotion as she recorded so many of her hits, many of them we enjoy today.

Many people call my admiration for her an obsession, I guess I own that categorization, there’s just something about her voice, listening to a woman who wasn’t raised in a rich home, grew up in poverty, and sang her way to stardom. During her career she broke many milestones, and in 1973, 10 years after her death, she was entered into the Country Music Hall of Fame, become the first female solo artist to receive such an honor. One can only imagine what country music would have been today had she not died on that fateful on March 5, 1963, a day where I guess you could say was the day country music died. While many talented country music artists have emerged in recent years, none can match the extraordinary talent of Patsy Cline.

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