http://973thedawg.com Acadiana's Best Country Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://973thedawg.com/kitty-wells-dies/ http://973thedawg.com/kitty-wells-dies/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:30:25 +0000 Billy Dukes http://tasteofcountry.com/?p=109012 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 recent stroke. Wells was not only a major hitmaker in the ’50s and ’60s, but she was the first female country singer with a voice that the mostly male-dominated industry stepped aside and respected. 

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