![]() country, male dominance of country music meant that female country singers were the original outsiders - simply by nature of being themselves. Wells' musical reply - that in fact it was married men who acted as if they were single that caused good women to take the wrong path - revolutionised the position of women in country music. Wells' song was written in reply to a popular country hit (Hank Thompson's The Wild Side of Life) whose lyrics expressed the dominant view that the only women who frequented bars were those of loose moral fibre. It was not until Kitty Wells' groundbreaking 1952 hit It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels that women were first taken seriously as country artists. Far from the traditional conservative image of country music this album features songs whose lyrics deal with female empowerment and subjects that include child prostitution, abortion, death and angels, workplace sexual exploitation, small town bigotry and more. ![]() Also highlighted are country soul music protagonists such as Jeannie C Riley, Diana Trask and Barbara Mandrell. As well as country legends Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker and Tammy Wynette, Country Soul Sisters also features artists such as Bobbie Gentry, Nancy Sinatra - who also made country music but existed outside the traditional Nashville framework. ![]() **Includes 68 page booklet with extensive sleevenotes on the featured artists plus photographs taken from the Getty picture archive** "Country Soul Sisters charts the rise of female singers in country music from 1952 to 1978. ![]()
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