Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patsy Cline died on 5 March 1963 (Getty/iStock) Every couple of months, at a venue somewhere in Michigan – the Old Town Playhouse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late ’50s, “Don Owens’s TV Jamboree” was a must-see every Saturday for country music fans across the Washington metro area.

Jazz and country music have two things in common: the blues and a dependence on songs with heartfelt stories. In the case of jazz, those story songs came largely from urban musicals by way of Tin Pan ...