Rose Lee Maphis was a country singer and guitarist who performed with her husband, Joe Maphis, as “Mr. and Mrs.
Country Music.”Maphis got her start singing on “The Old Dominion Barn Dance” out of Richmond, Virginia, where she met her future husband.
They relocated together to California in 1951, where they became pioneers of the burgeoning Bakersfield Sound. There, they co-wrote the song “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music),” a honky-tonk standard that they first recorded in 1953.
Their other popular songs included “Whiskey Is the Devil in Liquid Form” and “Where Honky-Tonk Angels Spread Their Wings.” Maphis released a number of records with her husband, as well as two solo albums, a self-titled debut in 1961 and 1964’s.
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