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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...

This book traces the fairy-tale careers of two superstars--from Faith's childhood as an adopted daughter growing up in Star, Mississippi, and Tim's as the illegitimate son of baseball star Tug McGraw raised in Start, Louisiana, through their hard-scrabble, lean Nashville years--culminating in their Spontaneous Combustion and Soul 2 Soul tours. Featuring full accounts of the story behind their songs and a color phot insert.