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When this reader reviewed "Tammy Wynette: A Daughter Recalls Her Mother's Tragic Life and Death" by Jackie Daly, he wrote: "When the ultimate Tammy story does appear, this reviewer will stand in line to buy it". "Tragic Country Queen" is that ultimate Tammy story. This is all the prospective purchaser needs to know. It's all here: The 5 marriages, Tammy's 57 Billboard hits, the shocking medical issues and her clandestine death in 1998 at the age of 55. Author McDonough has done his homework: There are 45 pages of endnotes, and a comprehensive discography, all supplemented by a documented long trail of personal interviews.

Author McDonough delivers some heavy body blows to the industry: By 1977, "Music City was beginning its great ascendancy into a 2nd rate factory for 3rd rate soft rock". By 1995. "Music City's conversion to a soft rock assembly line was now complete". Those who agree with those sentiments will be right at home with TCQ. They mirrored the feelings of this reviewer, who is unable to be as eloquent. Some of the following reviews are a bit harsh. It could be those folks don't understand the rueful changes that took place in Nashville since Tammy first hit the charts in 1967.

The only caveat attached here is that author McDonough is preaching to the choir. Serious, veteran devotees of True Country (that is pre-1975-1980) are most likely to enjoy TCQ. Others may be disappointed. We members of the choir will keep that 5th star.


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Tammy Wynette Tragic Country Queen Jimmy McDonough 9780670021536 Books Reviews

I must confess that ever since I heard that voice- described as a tear - I fell in love. At the time I was only five or six years old. The cotton candy aqua net soaked wigs were her armor, but love sweet bitter love her passion. There has never been and will never be another voice like hers. I understand that her voice was as fragile as her body. That voice even her speaking voice is like a million tiny threads of silk. I adore her. That a major motion picture has never been made is for the future's greater gain. Though I also adore Loretta Lynn, Tammy is just other worldly- just ask Loretta. I found it amazing that both were big enough people to be good friends unlike the behavior of current so called stars. I liked this book and at times I was a bit ashamed of it's gossipy tone. This writer has included every line about her both good and bad. You will not put down this one and cherish every moment with Tammy.
I still play her music when I do womanly tasks like cleanin' the house or washin' the clothes. I look at that last line as a tribute not a slur.
So much of my childhood is wrapped in the sounds of most of her number one hits. I think I could spell the word d-i-v-o-r-c-e before I could spell my own name. Read this book and laugh, love, and cry with the ladies of the trailer parks of Tennessee! I'm Tennessee born and raised (growing up in the county next to Dolly's) so I can say that.

Given the lack of books on her, I welcome good ones like this one. You ca feel the writer's own feelings as he recount some of the more shockingly sad things in this book. None of those bother me more than G Richey's strangle hold on the money making name he selfishly guards. I can sense the love Tammy had for her own children and I cannot believe she would have given her girls
practically nothing. In fact, Richey's new chick and child have it over Tammy's girls, too. Sadly, when you buy any of her material,
George gets paid. After he justly goes his latest chick and child will be living it up in a doublewide before you know it. Still, I cannot say that people should not buy her music. It is a double edge sword. I enjoyed this book as a guilty pleasure.
I grew up on a farm in North Carolina, before eventually landing on Wall Street, and for me this book approached a religious experience. It's not just the story of Tammy Wynette, it's the story of a time and a place that, as McDonough says, will never come again, a time when we listened to WCKY in Cincinnati and WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia, and country singers SPOKE to us in cheating songs, drinking songs, tales of love gone astray. At first the country charts amounted to "twenty-nine guys and Kitty Wells." Then Tammy Wynette came out of Tremont High School in Red Hook, Alabama and started singing and, said a friend, "it was like a great wind came through. Nothing was ever the same."
George Jones became Wynette's third and most significant husband. "When it comes to singing," she said, "no one can touch him. They have never been able to and they never will." His drinking led to their divorce. He finally straightened himself out, meanwhile Wynette became addicted to painkillers. She died in her 50s, and in pain.
There's a lot of great music described in this book, and a lot of sadness. But then isn't that what country music is all about?

Ken Byerly, author of Mountain Girl and other books.
I loved this book! At first, I didn't, to begin with it was a little slow, the author spends a lot of time on each person in Tammy's life that played a major part in her stardom. I did not understand why so much was spent time on these people when the book is about Tammy Wynette but as I read more of the book I understood "WHY" he went into such great detail. It was important that each person's personality and background was revealed in order to understand the impact they had on her life.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE TAMMY WYNETTE always have and always will. I never knew the all of the turmoils she went thru in her life, I knew a lot of about her early years but next to nothing about her later years. This book told me this and showed me her life w/George Richey and the hell she went thru livig with this man.
The author of this book was very careful to document all information printed, he referenced each statment at bottom of each page and noted when he was unable to confirm a story or not.
To summerize, What an eye opener this book was, and if you go see the movie Country Strong, this movies so closly resembles Tammy Wynette's life toward the end, read the book and see the movie, you will see
When this reader reviewed "Tammy Wynette A Daughter Recalls Her Mother's Tragic Life and Death" by Jackie Daly, he wrote "When the ultimate Tammy story does appear, this reviewer will stand in line to buy it". "Tragic Country Queen" is that ultimate Tammy story. This is all the prospective purchaser needs to know. It's all here The 5 marriages, Tammy's 57 Billboard hits, the shocking medical issues and her clandestine death in 1998 at the age of 55. Author McDonough has done his homework There are 45 pages of endnotes, and a comprehensive discography, all supplemented by a documented long trail of personal interviews.

Author McDonough delivers some heavy body blows to the industry By 1977, "Music City was beginning its great ascendancy into a 2nd rate factory for 3rd rate soft rock". By 1995. "Music City's conversion to a soft rock assembly line was now complete". Those who agree with those sentiments will be right at home with TCQ. They mirrored the feelings of this reviewer, who is unable to be as eloquent. Some of the following reviews are a bit harsh. It could be those folks don't understand the rueful changes that took place in Nashville since Tammy first hit the charts in 1967.

The only caveat attached here is that author McDonough is preaching to the choir. Serious, veteran devotees of True Country (that is pre-1975-1980) are most likely to enjoy TCQ. Others may be disappointed. We members of the choir will keep that 5th star.