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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the greatest country singer of all time. After taking honky-tonk rockers like 'White Lightning' all the way up the country charts, he revealed himself to be an unmatched virtuoso on "She Thinks I Still Care", thus cementing his status as a living legend. That's where the trouble started. Only at this new level of fame did Jones realize he suffered from...
Author
Series
Music matters volume 010
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tammy Wynette is literally referred to as "the first lady of country music," which speaks both to her importance in the genre as well as the way she has been partially defined by her marriage to singer George Jones. She had 20 number-one hits, the best-known being "Stand By Your Man." Steacy Easton believes Wynette was a complicated figure whose work plays with themes of domesticity, high femme armor, soft politics, pain, melodrama, sex, fame, tradition,...
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