Leona Williams

She also charted eight times on Hot Country Songs, with her only Top 40 hit being a duet with Haggard titled "The Bull and the Beaver."

[1] Active in her family's band since childhood, she had a radio program on KWOS in Jefferson City, Missouri, when she was fifteen.

By 1968, Williams signed to the Hickory record label and released two singles: "Once More" and "Country Girl with Hot Pants On.

[1] She also joined Merle Haggard's road band The Strangers in the mid-1970s, supplanting his estranged wife, Bonnie Owens.

[3] In 2017, Williams won the Honky Tonk Female honour at the Ameripolitan Music Awards.