Singer Emmylou Harris says a 33-year-old housewife named Kitty Wells turned both country music and the country on its head with "It Wasn't God Who... Kitty Wells: Don't Blame The 'Honky-Tonk' In 1952, ...

Jeannie Seely was a 12-year-old girl in rural Pennsylvania when she first heard Kitty Wells’ song “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” It was 1952, and Wells’ unlikely hit was climbing the ...

Where can you find a honky tonk in Iowa? Katie Sires, the lead singer and chief songwriter of the Cedar Valley country band that bears her name, asks that question on the closing track of the band’s ...

It was back in 2018 that “Honky Tonk Angels” took the stage at Winter Park Playhouse for a production I called “a down-home treat for country-music fans.” Now Ted Swindley’s festive sequel is in town, ...