DENTON, Texas (AP) -- Country singer Lynn Anderson, who had a Grammy-winning hit with "Rose Garden" in the early 1970s, was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated Thursday after police found her passed out in her car on the shoulder of an interstate highway.

About 7 a.m., Denton police received a call that a white Mercury Marquis traveling south on Interstate 35 was weaving and driving onto the shoulder. The caller followed the vehicle until it pulled onto the shoulder and stopped, police said in a written statement.

Anderson, 57, of Taos, N.M., was arrested after officers woke her and conducted a field sobriety test. She was taken to Denton City Jail where she was charged with DWI. She made $1,000 bond Thursday afternoon, said Jim Bryan, police spokesman.

Friend and manager Bonnie Garner told The Associated Press that she was unaware of the arrest. Garner said Anderson released a bluegrass album this year and had been at her home in Taos for Thanksgiving.

Anderson was the Country Music Association's female vocalist of the year in 1971. Denton is 35 miles north of Dallas.

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