by Susan Guynn
LeAnn Rimes was 11 when she signed her recording contract. At 13 she had her first chart-topping song, “Blue,” which held the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart for three months in 1996. Some called her “the next Patsy Cline.”
But a girl has to grow, explore and expand her boundaries, go with her gut feelings. That’s what Rimes did and though some criticized succeeding albums as too pop, she knows it was all part of becoming the artist she is today.
Rimes will perform one show at 9 p.m. Friday, July 31, at The Event Center at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, in Charles Town, West Virginia.
“I’m enjoying music again,” Rimes, 32, said in a recent phone interview from her home in LA. Later that day, she was scheduled to perform with David Gray at the Hollywood Bowl and the next day, she hit the road again.
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Patsy Cline would have been So Very Proud of LeAnn. I actually played samples of some of the songs that they both sing, to a friend a few years ago. After I played each one,I asked my friend if she could pick which was Patsy and which was LeAnn: She picked a couple and said that it was LeAnn singing them. She couldn't tell who was singing the others. She said it was too hard to tell the difference. Then I told her that ALL the Songs that I had played were sung by LeAnn ..... She could hardly believe it.