❞Terri Hawthorne, 20-year-old rodeo rider from Vidor, attended George Strait’s sell-out concert on Thursday, Feb. 22, 1990, at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Hawthorne spent weeks looking at Strait’s blown-up image while recovering from surgery in which her severed arm was reattached to her body. The devoted fan had seen Strait perform seven times before that foggy Dec. 30, 1989, morning when she lost her arm in a vehicle wreck.

❞The Pistol Annies aren’t just content with collaborating on their own music — they want to write songs for other people, too.

Actually, one person: Patty Loveless.

The trio is on a mission to get Loveless back into the recording studio. Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley consider Loveless their hero and when the “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am” singer came to one of Lambert’s shows, the women pounced on the opportunity to persuade her to make new music.

Loveless’ last album, “Mountain Heart II,” won a Grammy Award in 2010 for Best Bluegrass Album.

 “We were like, ‘Are you going to do anything anytime soon?’ ” Presley recalls. “She was like, ‘I don’t know, I might be done.’ We were like, ‘No! We will write you a record and when we do, you better cut it.’ ”

“I still want to do that,” Lambert says. “It gives me chills.”

The women ended up in the bathroom at the BMI Awards last year with songwriter Matraca Berg and Morgan Stapleton and started texting Loveless.

“We literally had someone guarding a door,” Lambert says. “(The text) said, ‘These girls in this bathroom are going to come get you, kidnap you, take you to the Smoky Mountains for a week and write your record. We’re going to listen to you talk and then write the songs.’ And she was like, ‘Well, I might think about doing that.’”

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George Strait live from Gilley’s Pasadena, Texas
Aired January 12th and 13th, 1985 / Recorded 1984 (x)

Merle Haggard and his impressions

❞Charline’s dynamic stage performances during this time were groundbreaking and controversial. She moved to Dallas to headline the Big D Jamboree, an unusual honor for a woman at the time. She was the first female country singer to perform onstage wearing pants, and was the only one photographed with a cigarette. While other female country performers stood demurely to sing, Charline pranced across stage, climbed on top of amplifiers, or sang lying down. Her shows were rowdy and sometimes racy. “I was shakin’ that thing on stage,” she said, “long before Elvis even thought about it.” Her reputation as a hard-drinking, cigarette-smoking performer with a hot temper contrasted with that of gingham-dress-clad Kitty Wells. She also performed for the Louisiana Hayride, Red Foley’s Ozark Jubilee, and the Grand Ole Opry (which censored her music). She toured with artists such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis. In 1955 she was named runner-up (to Wells) as the year’s best female singer in Country and Western Jamboree magazine’s DJ’s Choice poll. Presley paid her tribute as “one of the finest entertainers on stage I’ve ever seen.” (x)