Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The song reminds Gayle of her Kentucky upbringing, as her and sister Loretta Lynn's mother would often play big band music in ...

When Loretta Lynn and little sister Crystal Gayle posed for their joint PEOPLE cover story in 1978, they were two of country music's biggest stars. But behind the scenes, they were like any other ...

Country songbird Crystal Gayle has been hobbled by a knee injury that has also slowed down her career. The 75-year-old was forced to cancel an appearance at the Your Roots Are Showing conference in ...

Sometimes, though not always, an affinity for artistic expression runs in the family, and that seems to have been the case ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Apr 24, 2025, 03:49pm EDT Alana Springsteen at the 2024 CMT Music Awards held at ...

Loretta Lynn wasn’t the only musical one in her family. The “Coal Miner’s Daughter” trailblazer was the second of eight children born to Clara and Ted Webb in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. Of those eight ...

The Grammy-winning classic, famously recorded in a single take, became one of the most successful country-pop crossover hits ...

In 1977, Crystal Gayle released a song that to this day remains among her most well-known. “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue“, on her fourth studio album, We Must Believe In Magic, became the biggest ...

Loretta Lynn had seven siblings: Melvin “Junior” Webb, Herman Webb, Willie “Jay” Lee Webb, Donald Ray Webb, Peggy Sue Wright, Betty Ruth Hopkins and Crystal Gayle Tony R. Phipps/FilmMagic Loretta Lynn ...

It’s Rodeo Time in Houston, and a lot of people’s thoughts and memories over the years have not to do with mutton busting or bull riding, but the musical performers they saw at the Astrodome or (now) ...

It’s hard to follow your older sibling(s) into the music business. Ask Janet Jackson. Or Marie Osmond. Or Solange, Beyoncé’s sister. Country star Crystal Gayle was one of the first younger siblings of ...