Crystal Gayle’s first new album in nearly 16 years has her singing some of country music’s best-loved songs like “Walkin’ After Midnight,” “Please Help Me I’m Falling,” “Hello Walls,” “Crying Time,” ...

“We didn’t have much money but people would come over to hear us sing in the living room,” she recalls. Three of her siblings became country singers, most famously honky-tonk legend Loretta Lynn. “I ...

After her song “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” blew up the charts, every song pitched to Crystal Gayle had the word “blue” in it. The year was 1977, and Gayle’s country music career was heating up.