In the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, country music’s male stars – Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Webb Pierce and a legion of others–- burned up the charts with fiery, and sometimes forlorn, songs about the ladies they were pinin’ for, lovin’ or leavin’.
And the ladies?
From the mountains of Tennessee to the hills of Virginia and beyond, a few extraordinary women eyed their own lives, the evolving state of womanhood and the cash that Cash and his contemporaries were making and thought they might have a song or two inside them, too.
