Book description
From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music's legendary royal couple-George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the greatest country singer of all…
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Tyler Mahan Coe, son of country musician David Alan Coe, has a regular podcast by the same name. This volume is purportedly a history of the relationship, musical and otherwise, of the greatest country duet ever, Tammy Wynette and George Jones. But although Coe does trace that relation, along the way he offers acute and usually very surprising cultural commentary. Who knew, say, that pinball machines and country music, say, were interlinked early on? Who knew that Waylon Jennings was actually addicted to pinball?
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