Country music icon has new music released 62 years after death: ‘A dream come true’
Never-heard before music from Patsy Cline was released on Saturday.
According to PEOPLE, a limited-edition two-LP set of new recordings is now available. The full collection, “Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954-1963),” is also set to be released as a two-CD set, which is the same day that the digital download will be available.
There are 48 tracks, all live performances, and they will feature 15 never-released songs. Included in the release are new renditions of “Crazy,” “I Fall to Pieces” and “Walkin’ After Midnight.”
“It’s a dream come true,” Cline discographer George Hewitt said, per PEOPLE.
Cline was just 30-years-old when she died in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee on March 5, 1963.
“A lot of people — when you lose someone — you don’t have all these different avenues to remember them,” Cline’s daughter, Julie Fudge, said. “The fact that it’s been more than 60 years and to still have her in our lives every day is quite an accomplishment. It’s been a blessing.”
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