Patsy Montana: The Cowboy's Sweetheart

Patsy Montana: The Cowboy's Sweetheart
ISBN-10
0786410809
ISBN-13
9780786410804
Category
Music
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2002-02-15
Publisher
McFarland
Authors
Patsy Montana, Jane Frost

Description

Born Ruby Rebecca Blevins in a log cabin nestled among the Arkansas Ozarks in 1908, Patsy Montana began her musical career performing in the 1920s with the California-based Montana Cowgirls trio. She went solo and in 1936 became the first female country and western singer to sell one million records with her self-penned "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart." Her career spanned eight decades, and in 1996 (also the year of her death) she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Here is the story of a tiny, blue-eyed woman who had a pioneering spirit and a big voice. Patsy Montana describes in her own words and in vivid detail her life, career, and success at a time in music history when women did not cut gold records, gold records were not even given, and Billboard did not even have a chart for western music.

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