Broken guitar

She's Twangy- and Angry!

Soundcheck | May 16, 2011

Country music history is filled with songs about women who’ve had it up to here with men – and are ready to take it out on a lover’s pickup truck. Today: Angry anthems by female country stars, from Loretta Lynn’s “The Pill” to Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats.” Plus: Country singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell joins us to play songs from her latest album - a tribute to Kitty Wells, the singer who railed against cheatin’ hearts in her 1952 recording “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” 

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