Tammy Wynette Tammy Wynette

Tammy Wynette

Tragic Country Queen

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Publisher Description

The first full-scale biography of the enduring first lady of country music

The twentieth century had three great female singers who plumbed the darkest corners of their hearts and transformed private grief into public dramas. In opera, there was the unsurpassed Maria Callas. In jazz, the tormented Billie Holiday. And in country music, there was Tammy Wynette.

"Stand by Your Man," "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," "Take Me to Your World" are but a few highlights of Tammy's staggering musical legacy, all sung with a voice that became the touchtone for women's vulnerability, disillusionment, strength, and endurance.

In Tammy Wynette, bestselling biographer Jimmy McDonough tells the story of the small-town girl who grew up to be the woman behind the microphone, whose meteoric rise led to a decades-long career full of tragedy and triumph. Through a high-profile marriage and divorce, her dreadful battle with addiction and illness, and the struggle to compete in a rapidly evolving Nashville, Tammy turned a brave smile toward the world and churned out masterful hit songs though her life resembled the most heartbreaking among them.

Tammy Wynette is an intimate portrait of a music icon, the Queen of Heartbreak, whose powerful voice simultaneously evoked universal pain and longing even as it belied her own.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2010
March 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
448
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
1.4
MB

Customer Reviews

tsierer ,

Amazing

I grew up listening to Wynette on the radio, but i had no idea of her struggle to get there... What is really amazing was her uncanny ability to get in the way of her own success. Although she may have been intelligent, she seemed to make bad choices along the way that only led to an unhappy lifestyle. That and i think she had the unfortunate luck to have the wrong people around her. This book is one of the most well-written biographies i've read. I highly recommend it.

Flashfill ,

Tammy Wynette

If you have any feeling for country music you will love this book. I could not put it down. If there was a Mount Rushmore for country music, Tammy Wynette would be there.

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