Billie Maxwell

Not that much is known about this historic country singer from late '20s known as "the Cow Girl singer," but a few faded and fuzzy photographs have revealed that she is certainly among the first performers to exploit the image of a cowgirl to sell records, making her the mothership behind all subsequent female country singer invasions. Rodeohand types have indicated that the way she holds her horse in one of these photographs, reprinted in the text The Country Music Story, reveals that she came by this cowgirl image honestly, probably getting chucked off a few horses in the pr...