Confused by Righteous45

A glorious flipside, ‘Confused’ tapped into the early 60s girl group sound, and showed the shift in country music towards Brill Building-esque pop of the era. Nestling as the sub plot to her Justin Tubb-penned 1962 debut single ‘Something Tells Me’, that Billboard enthused over: “A haunting and beguiling new sound.”

That said, Wilma never matured into a country legend even when she followed this single with 14 songs that broke into Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart between 1965 and 1973. She performed on the Grand Ole Opry, something every aspiring country singer dreamed of, but she was never invited to become a member of the Opry, simply because she embraced being gay. ‘Confused’ then seems a suitable precursor to a career that should have been so much more, and it’s a fantstic 45 to boot.

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