There is a strong argument for calling country music ‘whiteman’s blues’, but that denies the fact that so many of thebest country records were made by females. One of the mostfamous country songs after all is Stand By Your Man, butdon’t be misled by the title. These were largely tough, feistyfemales making their way in a man’s world. Decades beforethe Spice Girls, there was girl power in country music!

• - 1 -

  • 1. Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden
  • 2. Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A.
  • 3. Patsy Cline - Crazy
  • 4. Melba Montgomery - Heartaches By Number
  • 5. Connie Francis - I Walk the Line
  • 6. Billie Jo Spears - Mr. Walker, It's All Over
  • 7. Damita Jo - Funny How Time Slips Away
  • 8. June Carter - the Heel
  • 9. Kitty Wells - Hello Walls
  • 10. Patty Page - Big Bad John
  • 11. Loretta Lynn - Gonna Pack My Troubles
  • 12. Jo Ann Campbell - It Keeps Right On a -Hurtin'
  • 13. Jan Howard - Don't Worry Bout Me
  • 14. Margie Singleton - I'll Just Walk By
  • 15. Katie Lee - Gunslinger
  • 16. Rose Maddox - Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me
  • 17. Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces
  • 18. Jean Shepard - the Root of All Evil (is a Man)
  • 19. Goldie Hill - I've Got a New Heartache
  • 20. Jeannie C. Riley - Here's To the Cowboys

• - 2 -

  • 1. Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight
  • 2. Lynn Anderson - Stand By Your Man
  • 3. Connie Smith - Ain't Had No Lovin'
  • 4. Damita Jo - She's Got You
  • 5. Billie Jo Spears - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
  • 6. Jeannie C. Riley - Hang Up Your Rhinestone Suit
  • 7. Kay Starr - Riders In the Sky
  • 8. Goldie Hill - As Far As I'm Concerned
  • 9. Kitty Wells - Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  • 10. Ann Campbell - Send Me the Pillow You Dream On Jo
  • 11. Jeanne Black - He'll Have To Stay
  • 12. Rose Maddox - On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain
  • 13. Jean Shepard - I've Got To Talk To Mary
  • 14. June Carter - Juke Box Blues
  • 15. Dottie West - I Should Start Running
  • 16. Wilma Burgess - Something Tells Me
  • 17. Wanda Jackson - Who Shot Sam
  • 18. Kitty Wells -Lonely Street
  • 19. Connie Francis - I'm Movin' On
  • 20. Dolly Parton - Release Me