b. Norma Jean Beasler, 30 January 1938, near Wellston, Oklahoma, USA. Beasler showed an early interest in singing and after the family relocated to Oklahoma City, when she was five years old, she was given guitar tuition by an aunt. At the age of 13 she had her own thrice-weekly show on KLPR and in 1958, after working with several other artists including Leon McAuliffe, she became a regular on Red Foley's Ozark Jubilee television show, where she first dropped her surname and where her melodic singing soon attracted nationwide attention. In 1960 she moved to Nashville and became the featured vocalist with Porter Wagoner on both his network television show and also on the Grand Ole Opry. She recorded for Columbia Records in the early 60s but only gained her first US country chart success, "Let's Go All The Way", in 1964, by which time she had joined RCA Records. (The Columbia material is contained on her only Columbia album, The Country's Favorite; released in 1966 on their Harmony subsidiary - it is now highly sought after by collectors.) Further hits followed, including country Top 10s with "Go Cat Go" and "I Wouldn't Buy A Used Car From Him" and a Top 5 recording of "The Game Of Triangles" with Bobby Bare and Liz Anderson. Equally at home with up-tempo songs such as "Truck Drivin' Woman", country monologues such as "Old Doc Brown" or a country weepie on the lines of "There Won't Be Any Patches In Heaven", she built up a considerable reputation.

Listen to Norma Jean at Finetune.

• (2008)  The Anti Mother
• (2006)  Redeemer
• (2005)  O God, The Aftermath
• (2002)  Bless the Martyr and Kiss...

• Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste (Bless The Matyr Album Version)
• Blueprints For Future Homes
• Shotgun Message, The (Bless The Martyr Album Version)
• The End Of All Things Will Be Televised
• Face:face (Bless The Martyr Album Version)

• Underoath
• Killswitch Engage
• As I Lay Dying
• Poison The Well
• Atreyu
• In Flames
• BLEEDING THROUGH
• Every Time I Die
• All That Remains
• It Dies Today
• Alexisonfire
• Zao
• FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES
• Hatebreed
• Chiodos
• Chimaira
• Children Of Bodom
• Unearth
• Destroy The Runner
• Haste The Day

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• progandother on 2008-03-03 18:08:12.030:
  ...if anyone like this they should check out their old band Luti-Kriss...
• mcr4 on 2008-02-21 10:31:47.773:
  this band is the greatest hardcore-alt metal of all time. Then, Hatebreed's up there with Norma Jean too. But Norma Jean's better
• progandother on 2007-11-23 18:36:05.557:
  ...yes the description is wrong...but this band is amazing...distorted sounds all the way...
• TommyG on 2007-08-16 13:37:01.750:
  Description is wrong :P