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

On this day (November 27) in 1961, Patsy Cline released her sophomore album Showcase. The release came four years after her self-titled debut record dropped in 1957. It was the only album Cline ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 29, 2025. Click here for that audio. Singer Patsy Cline helped create the Nashville sound, a crossover between country and pop, in the 1950s and ...

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 ...

Cline, who will be celebrated in a Great Performances special, “Walkin’ After Midnight,” Friday night, was actually more pop than country during her later years. In essence, she was Taylor Swift ...