Woman walk the line: how the women in country music changed our lives

Maybelle Carter: the root of it all / Caryn Rose

Hardin: that's how I got to Memphis

Alice Randall

Wanda Jackson: when she starts eruptin' / Holly George-Warren

Hazel Dickens: the plangent bone / Ronni Lundy

June Carter Cash: eulogy for a mother / Rosanne Cash

Brenda Lee: rare peer / Taylor Swift

Bobbie Gentry: let the mystery be / Meredith Ochs

Loretta Lynn: the pill / Madison Vain

Dolly Parton: Long Island down home blues / Nancy Harrison

Emmylou Harris: common ground in an uncommon love / Ali Berlow

Barbara Mandrell: Lubbock in the rearview mirror / Shelby Morrison

Tanya Tucker: punk country and sex wide open / Holly Gleason

Rita Coolidge: a dark-eyed Cherokee country gal / Kandia Crazy Horse

Linda Ronstadt: canciones di corazon salvage / Grace Potter

Rosanne Cash: expectations and letting go / Deborah Sprague

The Judds: comfort far from home / Courtney E. Smith

k.d. lang: flawless, fearless / Kelly McCartney

Lucinda Williams, flesh & ghosts, dreams + marrow / Lady Goodman

Mary Chapin Carpenter: every hometown girl / Cynthia Sanz

Patty Loveless: beyond what you know / Wendy Pearl

Shania Twain: but the little girls understand / Emily Yahr

Alison Krauss: draw your own map / Aubrie Sellers

Terri Clark: better things to do / Amy Elizabeth McCarthy

Taylor Swift: through the eyes of a critic, of a mom / Elysa Gardner

Kacey Musgraves: follow your arrow / Dacey Orr

Rhiannon Giddens: a gift past the songs / Caroline Randall Williams

Patty Griffin: remembering to breathe / Kim Ruehl.