During her relatively short career, Patsy Cline left us with some of the most memorable vocal performances in musical history. Her rich, vibrant voice lent an aching quality to the many ballads she popularized in the early country music scene. Though Cline was tragically killed in a plane crash in 1963 at the age of 30—which also took the lives of Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins—her luscious contralto timbre lives on forever in these recordings.