MUSIC: INCLINED TO BE JUST LIKE PATSY

TERRIFIC CDS FROM TWO YOUNG NEWCOMERS PAY HOMAGE TO THE LATE, GREAT QUEEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC

She had all the makings of pop immortality: overnight stardom, singing Walkin' After Midnight on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts TV show; a string of pop and country hits (Crazy, She's Got You, I Fall to Pieces and the peerless heart crusher, Sweet Dreams); a rowdy domestic life; and the all-important early, violent death, in a plane crash when she was just 30. But Patsy Cline also had the goods: this woman could sing. Her bold contralto caught the pain and truth of a lyric without ever getting histrionic. "Oh, Lord," she famously said, "I sing just like I hurt inside." The...

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