On the Air: Her Greatest TV Performances (Live)

On the Air: Her Greatest TV Performances (Live)

These 14 performances from TV broadcasts in 1962 and early 1963 let listeners hear Patsy Cline at her most natural. In the studio, producer Owen Bradley had given her what became known as the countrypolitan sound, but on her own with her road band, Cline's style is stripped down to basics. The extra space in the arrangements gives Cline room to roam, and the emotion she brings to heartbreaking tunes such as "She's Got You," "A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye," and "I Fall to Pieces" shows what made her a vocalist of the first order. Pedal steel guitar introduces "Walkin' After Midnight," and it shows her vocal agility. Cline could shift styles and never lose the vulnerability that made her music so filled with empathy. While her studio recordings could blur the lines between country music and pop, these live performances bring out her hillbilly music roots, proving she had more in common with Hank Williams than with the easy-listening stars who joined up in her wake.

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