Women in Bluegrass Newsletter Archive, Reader’s Edition

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Patsy Montana

Patsy Montana (born Ruby Blevins, 1908–1996) was an American country singer and yodeler from Arkansas whose 1935 recording "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" is often cited as the first million-selling record by a woman country singer. She was a star of WLS's National Barn Dance in Chicago with the Prairie Ramblers, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996.

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