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One of Country Music's Darkest Days

One of Country Music's Darkest Days is a Tennessee historical marker in Benton County.

Walkway entry at the Patsy Cline Memorial Site on Mt. Carmel Rd., 3 miles west of Camden

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On March 5, 1963, at 30 years of age, country singer Virgina Patterson Hensley, better known as Patsy Cline, along with her manager, Randy Hughes, and fellow Grand Ole Opry stars, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, were killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee, on their way home from a benefit concert in Kansas City, Missouri. Known for her smooth-sounding emotive voice, Cline helped break down the gender barrier in the music genre. Considered one of Country music's greatest vocalist, Cline was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973.

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