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CircaDottie West was one of the most successful, and controversial, performers
to rise to popularity during the Nashville sound era; like her friend and
mentor Patsy Cline, West's battles for identity and respect within the male-
dominated country music hierarchy were instrumental in enabling other
female artists to gain control over the directions of their careers.

Born Dorothy Marie Walsh outside McMinnville, TN, on October 11, 1932,
she was the oldest of ten children; after her abusive, alcoholic father
abandoned the family, her mother opened a small cafe. Dottie began
appearing on local radio just shy of her 13th birthday and went on to study
music at Tennessee Tech, where she also sang in a band; the group's steel
guitar player, Bill West, became her first husband in 1953. After graduation,
the Wests and their two children moved to Cleveland, OH; there, Dottie
began appearing on the television program Landmark Jamboree as one
half of a country-pop vocal duo called the Kay-Dots alongside partner
Kathy Dee. At the same time, West made numerous trips to Nashville in the
hopes of landing a recording deal; in 1959, she and Bill auditioned for
Starday's Don Pierce and were immediately offered a contract. Although
the resulting singles West cut for the label proved unsuccessful, she
nonethless moved to Nashville in 1961. There, she and her husband fell in
with a group of aspiring songwriters like Willie Nelson, Roger Miller, Hank
Cochran, and Harlan Howard; they also became close friends with Cline
and her husband Charlie Dick.

West earned her first Top 40 hit in 1963 with "Let Me Off at the Corner,"
followed a year later by the Top Ten "Love Is No Excuse," a duet with
Jim Reeves (who had scored a major success with her "Is This Me?"). Also
in 1964, she auditioned for producer Chet Atkins, the architect of the
Nashville sound, who agreed to produce her composition "Here Comes My
Baby"; the single made West the first female country artist to win a
Grammy Award, leading to an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry. In
Atkins, West found the perfect producer for her plaintive vocals and
heart-wrenching songs; after releasing the Here Comes My Baby LP in
1965, they reunited for the following year's Suffer Time, which generated
her biggest hit yet in "Would You Hold It Against Me." In 1967, the West/
Atkins pairing issued three separate albums — With All My Heart and Soul
(featuring the smash "Paper Mansions"), Dottie West Sings Sacred Ballads,
and I'll Help You Forget Her; she also appeared in a pair of films, Second
Fiddle to a Steel Guitar and There's a Still on the Hill.

After the 1968 LP Country Girl, West teamed with Don Gibson for a record
of duets, 1969's Dottie and Don, featuring the number two hit "Rings of
Gold." The album was her last with Atkins, and she followed it with two
1970 releases, Forever Yours and Country Boy and Country Girl, a
collection of pairings with Jimmy Dean. Around the time of 1971's Have You
Heard...Dottie West, she left Bill and in 1972 married drummer Bryan
Metcalf, who was a dozen years her junior. Suddenly, West's image
underwent a huge metamorphosis; the woman who once performed
dressed in conservative gingham dresses and refused to record Kris
Kristofferson's "Help Me Make It Through the Night" because it was "too
sexy" began appearing in skin-tight stage attire. As the sexual revolution
peaked, so did West's career; after the 1973 success of the crossover
smash "Country Sunshine," written for Coca-Cola, her material became far
more provocative and, much to the chagrin of country purists, more
commericially successful as well.

After the release of House of Love in 1974, West notched a number of Top
40 hits like "Last Time I Saw Him," "When It's Just You and Me," and
"Tonight You Belong to Me." In 1977, she was recording the song "Every
Time Two Fools Collide" when, according to legend, Kenny Rogers suddenly
entered the studio and began singing along. Released as a duet, the single
hit number one, West's first; the duo's 1979 "All I Ever Need Is You" and
1981 "What Are We Doin' in Love" topped the charts as well, and a 1979
duets album titled Classics also proved successful. As a solo artist, West
notched a pair of number ones in 1980 — "A Lesson in Leavin'" and "Are
You Happy Baby?".

As the 1980s progressed, West's popularity began to slip; she appeared in
a revealing photo spread in the men's magazine Oui and toured with a
production of the musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. In 1983,
she married for the third time, to soundman Al Winters, who was some 23
years younger than she was; a year later, she appeared in the play Bring
It on Home. Her last chart hit, "We Know Better Now," reached only number
53 in 1985. Although she remained a popular touring act, West's financial
problems mounted, and in 1990, after divorcing Winters, she declared
bankruptcy, culminating in the foreclosure of her Nashville mansion. After
a car accident and a public auction of her possessions, she began making
plans for a comeback, including an album of duets and autobiography. But
en route to a September 4, 1991, appearance at Opryland, the car she was
riding in flipped, and a few days later West died of her injuries. A made-
for-television biography followed a few years later.

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