Mandrell was just a teenager when she earned her first taste of success as an instrumentalist. During her adolescence, she learned both the steel guitar and the saxophone. Her talent turned the head ...

For country music fans, the celebration of Women’s History Month just got even sweeter with the release of Barbara Mandrell 's Precious Memories: 20 Hymns & Gospel Classics. The iconic collection ...

Barbara Mandrell may have been, as her song title suggests, country when country wasn’t cool. But she was much more than that, too. The Houston native typified the phrase “all-around entertainer” ...

The Grand Ole Opry celebrated a half-century since Barbara Mandrell's induction into the iconic country music organization Saturday. The Opry has played a foundational role in her life and career. On ...

In honor of my recent Irlene Mandrell interview and humming her sister Barbara’s monster 1981 hit incessantly in the last 10 days or so, I looked into other matters other than country of which people ...