“Other female country singers of her day were trying their hands at hard-living, honky-tonk songs, but it was the intense and piercing style of Kitty Wells, with her gospel-touched vocals and ...

Her mother was a gospel ... billed as Kitty Wells, her Decca single “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” was an out-of-the-box smash, topping Billboard’s Top Country Songs chart ...

Kitty Wells shocked the country music scene when ... she had toured as the “girl singer” with her husband’s band, singing gospel songs and old folk ballads. She later said the $125 fee ...