   The queen of country music has died. Kitty Wells was a
country superstar. She revolutionized that musical genre by
becoming its first female solo star. Wells died at home in
Nashville today due to complications from a stroke. She was 92
years old. NPR's Neda Ulaby has this remembrance.   NEDA ULABY,
BYLINE: Kitty Wells sang about the sad side of domesticity,
taking on topics like mothers without custody in the 1950s.
KITTY WELLS: (Singing) I got to see my little girl each Sunday
afternoon, and how I dread the words I know she'll say.  ULABY:
Wells sang about the real problems of postwar life, says writer
Robert Oermann. He co-wrote a book about the history of women in
country music, and he says Wells was a pioneer.  ROBERT OERMANN:
There had been females in country music from Chicago and from
the West Coast and from Atlanta and other country music
capitals, but Kitty came along when Nashville and the South were
becoming the capital of country music. And there, women were
very much pushed to the backgroun