Patsy Cline

American Country Legend

(Sun Label Group LLC)

Per the Country Hall of Fame site, Patsy was killed in the same tragic 1963 plane crash that took pilot Randy Hughes, as well as her fellow Opry stars Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas. She was without equal as a stylist, whether emoting sonorously in torch balladry or snapping her fringed cowgirl skirt with wink and beaming grin. Produced by Owen Bradley, "Lovesick Blues" is but one cut featuring Hank Garland, Floyd Cramer, Grady Martin, and Buddy Harman rattling Nashville studio tiles.

It's both testament to Miss Patsy's lofty status and cursed injustice that in 2026, elevator speakers blare her immortal soundings in voiceless, annoying muzak manifestations.

Recommended: "Walkin' After Midnight," "Too Many Secrets," "Stop the World (I Want to Get Off)," "A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye," "I'm Blue Again," "Honky Tonk Merry-Go-Round," "I Cried All the Way to the Altar," "Lovesick Blues," "Cry Not for Me"

Videos: "Too Many Secrets"   "A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye"   "I'm Blue Again"   "Lovesick Blues"

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Warren Smith

Sun Records Originals: Rock'n'Roll Ruby

(Sun Label Group)

The geiger counter is going, going, gone - and not owing solely to "Uranium Rock." The flattop cats raving behind Warren (whose number, in moments, included a kid named Jerry Lee), threw out a hot-wired, hot rodded Country/Rockabilly amalgam that landed everlastingly in many-a chain-wallet compendium bearing Sam's smoking imprint. Even amidst slicked-back peers who in future years would live in high cotton, Warren put the size 10 into it like all get out.

Recommended: "Rock'n'Roll Ruby," "Red Cadillac and a Black Mustache," "Do I Love You," "Uranium Rock," "I've Got Love if You Want It," "Ubangi Stomp," "I Fell in Love," "I'd Rather Be Safe than Sorry," "Who Took My Baby," "Stop the World (I'll Jump Off)," "Miss Froggie," "I Like Your Kind of Love," "Sweet, Sweet Girl," "So Long I'm Gone"

Videos: "Rock'n'Roll Ruby"   "Do I Love You"   "Who Took My Baby"   "Sweet, Sweet Girl"

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"No Time to Rest"   single

(Self-issued)

Their self-description ("Punk as fuck from Paris, France") blares the essential data, but the critical pen demands autonomous vent: Here handstands the out-loud exuberance that has always impelled important Rock'n'Roll, from Sun to CBGBs to a 15 year-old learning to bash an E chord at blinding velocity. Sneering guerillas of the avenues.

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Billy Lee Riley

The Truckers Jukebox Present...

(Burn Rubber Recordings)

Sun alumnus Billy Lee is revered by sideburned legions. A multi-instrumentalist fireball, he inspired ensuant generations of rockers. Not the least of those was iconic singer Robert Gordon. His reinventions of Billy Lee's more combustible waxings introduced them to fresh ears. Most readers of this page already know that Billy Lee reclines in the pantheon; those few who didn't, do now,

Recommended: "Wouldn't You Know," "Trouble Bound," "Betty and Dupree," "No Name Girl," "I Want You Baby," "Got the Water Boiling," "Pearly Lee," "Dance With Me Honey," "Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash," "Rock With Me Baby," "Baby Please Don't Go," "Red Hot," "Flying Saucer Rock'n'Roll"

Video: "Got the Water Boiling"

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