This new album on Soul Jazz Records is a stunning collection of tracks by female country singers. The album features all the classic artists – Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker – as well as many lesser-known singers. The album comes with extensive sleevenotes charting the rise of female artists in country music from early stars such as Patsy Cline and Kitty Wells up to the astute-minded superstar figures such as Dolly Parton - whose businesses currently include the theme park Dollywood, a film production company as well as a philanthropic literacy campaign, ‘Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library’. This album also features artists such as Nancy Sinatra, Bobbie Gentry who also made country music but existed outside the traditional Nashville framework as well as artists with a leaning towards country soul music such as Jeannie C Riley, Diana Trask and Barbara Mandrell. Far from the traditional conservative image of country music this album features songs about female empowerment as well as a number of radical subjects – Prostitution, abortion, death and angels, workplace sexual exploitation, small town bigotry and more – from Kitty Wells’ groundbreaking It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels to Jean Shepherd’s Two Whoops and A Holler - where she sings that a woman who drinks, smokes or tells a joke is lower than a piece of ham in the eyes of men. Country Soul Sisters is a extensive guide to female country singers from 1952-74. As well as the extensive sleevenotes the accompanying large outsize booklet in card slipcase also includes stunning photography from the Getty picture archive and also includes new interviews with a number of the featured artists. As well as the slipcase CD edition there is also a limited edition heavyweight double gatefold vinyl edition complete with full sleeve-notes and super-loud pressing. Tracklisting: 1. Dolly Parton - Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind 2. Lynn Anderson - Fancy 3. Jeannie C. Riley - I've Done A Lot of Livin' Since Then 4. Bobbie Gentry - Reunion 5. Tammy Wynette - Tonight My Baby's Coming Home 6. Jean Shepard - A Satisfied Mind 7. Nancy Sinatra - Get While the Gettin's Good 8. Tanya Tucker - California Cotton Fields 9. Sammie Smith - Saunders Ferry Line 10. Connie Smith - If It Ain't Love 11. Jean Shepard - Two Whoops and A Holler 12. Billie Jo Spears - Mr Walker 13. Patsy Cline - Ain't No Wheels On This Ship 14. Barbara Fairchild - Color My World 15. Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn - You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly 16. Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley PTA 17. Jody Miller - A Woman Left Lonely 18. Kitty Wells - Delta Dawn 19. Diana Trask - Show Me 20. Norma Jean - He's All I Got 21. Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe 22. Bonnie Guitar - Tender Words 23. Barbara Mandrell - Husband Stealer 24. Diana Trask - I'll Never Do You Wrong 25. Kitty Wells - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels