MUSIC

Dosey Doe Coffee House presents Crystal Gayle. TWO SHOWS. Along with eighteen #1 country hits during the 70’s and 80’s she earned a Grammy award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her jazz- flavored ballad, “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”. She holds numerous other music awards and was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame.

“Before country was ‘cool,’ Crystal was ‘class’…” Never has one reviewer captured a platinum clad, Grammy Award winning career so beautifully in so few words. Crystal encapsulates everything the dazzling qualities of her name implies—although that name came to her in quite an unusual fashion. “Crystal” came at the suggestion of Brenda Gayle Webb’s older sister, Loretta Lynn—who knowing there was already a ‘Brenda Lee’ currently successful in the music industry—suggested her younger sibling adopt the name ‘Crystal’ when she began recording. Once re-named, her musical boundaries have since been seemingly limitless. Strange to think of anyone as young and vibrant as the artist in question as a “timeless classic” herself—but that indeed describes the course Crystal Gayle’s career has taken.

In the mid ‘70’s, Crystal was the focal point of her own one hour prime time special on CBS television—a special that earned the glowing praise of viewers and critics alike. Chic, hip, and cool with a romantic mane of hair that swept around her ankles, in one evening of television Crystal Gayle moved country music to the highest platform it had yet reached in the eyes of the viewing and listening nation.

The blue eyed beauty from the Appalachian coal mining town of Paintsville, Kentucky would never again linger in the shadow of being Loretta’s baby sister. Drop dead beautiful and dressed in designer threads, Crystal took country music to town on her arm in the ‘70’s and introduced it to mainstream audiences.

The result was a career crossover that’s still produces beautiful results.