Collection: Patsy Cline Vinyl Records

Patsy Cline more or less defined what a country singer could sound like. Across a short recording career that ended with her death in a plane crash in 1963, the Virginia-born singer recorded the Owen Bradley-produced sessions in Nashville that became the template for the Nashville Sound — country with strings, backing vocals and a torch-song sensibility — and the records have only grown in stature.

The vinyl pressings benefit from the format. Bradley's production, the close-mic'd vocal work and the string arrangements need the dynamic range and the mid-range warmth that LP playback gives.