On this day (August 5) in 1957, Patsy Cline released her self-titled debut album. The LP contained “Walkin’ After Midnight,” the first several crossover hits for the legendary singer. However, the ...

Seventy years ago today, Patsy Cline stepped into the studio to begin sessions for the album that would help put her on the map.

(AP) Forty years after Virginia-born country singer Patsy Cline died in a plane crash near the marshy banks of the Tennessee River, fans leave plastic flowers and written messages at the crash site.

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 ...