This is some damn fine music! 1961. Some say this is rockabilly influenced stuff. This is actually considered to be Country/Western, but it is nevertheless some of the finest music ever made. She has other songs too, and they are excellent. She had a tragic early death in a plane crash at age 30. I believe that even in her short life, she was not particularly happy. A couple of real rocky marriages in there.
It’s rather sad, heartbreaking music though, rather like her life, but one of the real breakthroughs you can achieve in life is when you learn to appreciate the beauty in pure, glorious, mournful sadness. Half of life is sadness, and that’s on a good day. Since life’s so full of it, you may as well learn to enjoy it.
