Mimi Roman First Of The Brooklyn Cowgirls 06/23/2015 and -- even more startlingly

and -- even more startlingly -- a Top Ten single

3 End of a Century

County sewer system and Pacific Ocean floor

Fueled by a woozy pedal steel

as do the song's evolving rhythms

Mimi Roman First Of The Brooklyn Cowgirls 06/23/2015 and -- even more startlinglyA door would open up and I would just go through it, and I just kept doing that for all my life. Mimi Roman A door would open and I would just go through it. . . . That is how Mimi Roman, at 87, tells us of her life, including her time as a successful country singer in the 1950s and early 60s. But it took talent and a strong, beautifully distinctive voice for those doors to open, and to go far once on the other side. It also took guts and plenty of