4 Star Records was a record label that was home to what American country music singer-songwriter who was a member of the Grand Ole Opry for nearly 50 years?
4 Star Records 4 Star Records was a record label that recorded many well-known country music acts in the 1950s. The label, founded after World War II, was home to singers such as Hank Locklin, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Rose Maddox, Webb Pierce, Cousin Ford Lewis and T. Texas Tyler, who all regularly issued records on the label, mostly as 78rpm singles.
Kathy Mattea Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea (born June 21, 1959) is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic, and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1984 as a recording artist, she has charted more than thirty singles on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts, including four that reached No. 1: "Goin' Gone", "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses", "Come from the Heart", and "Burnin' Old Memories", plus twelve more that charted within the top ten. Mattea released ten studio albums, a Christmas album, and a greatest hits package for Mercury Nashville between 1984 and 2000, and four more albums on independent labels after that. She has collaborated with Dolly Parton, Michael McDonald, Tim O'Brien, and her longtime husband, Jon Vezner. Mattea is also a two-time Grammy Award winner: in 1990 for "Where've You Been", and in 1993 for her Christmas album "Good News".