Sandy Kelly

Although her career has included detours into folk, traditional Irish music, and contemporary pop, Sandy Kelly is best known as a singer of warm, lilting country music in the vein of her multi-occasion duet partner, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline, whom she portrayed on the West End. After stints in touring band the Fairways and family act the Duskeys, she went solo with 1985's Paradise Tonight, a major-label release featuring sleek pop production. However, beginning with the success of "Woodcarver," her 1989 duet with Johnny Cash, and her version of the Willie Nelson classic "...