Loretta Lynn wasn’t the only musical one in her family. The “Coal Miner’s Daughter” trailblazer was the second of eight children born to Clara and Ted Webb in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. Of those eight ...

One chart-topping song helped this country album achieve a milestone no female artist had ever reached before.

The Grammy-winning classic, famously recorded in a single take, became one of the most successful country-pop crossover hits ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Apr 24, 2025, 03:49pm EDT Alana Springsteen at the 2024 CMT Music Awards held at ...

Beginning in 1970, Crystal Gayle spent two decades as one of country music’s biggest hitmakers. While perhaps not as legendary as her sister, Loretta Lynn, Gayle had more than 40 hit singles at ...

This week in 1977: U.S. State Dept. proposed emergency admission of 10.000 Vietnam refugees who were fleeing their nation in small boats; hundreds of angry farmers rolled into Washington aboard ...

It’s hard to follow your older sibling(s) into the music business. Ask Janet Jackson. Or Marie Osmond. Or Solange, Beyoncé’s sister. Country star Crystal Gayle was one of the first younger siblings of ...

Loretta Lynn had seven siblings: Melvin “Junior” Webb, Herman Webb, Willie “Jay” Lee Webb, Donald Ray Webb, Peggy Sue Wright, Betty Ruth Hopkins and Crystal Gayle Tony R. Phipps/FilmMagic Loretta Lynn ...

Country songbird Crystal Gayle has been hobbled by a knee injury that has also slowed down her career. The 75-year-old was forced to cancel an appearance at the Your Roots Are Showing conference in ...

After her song “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” blew up the charts, every song pitched to Crystal Gayle had the word “blue” in it. The year was 1977, and Gayle’s country music career was heating up.