Thousands of women have sung country music, but Tammy Wynette lived country music. Wynette was born May 5, 1942 in Itawaba County, Mississippi, and before her death 56 years later, she had been married five times, dated Burt Reynolds, become addicted to prescription medicine, survived a kidnapping attempt, and was part of a savings and loan scandal. She also managed to release twenty chart topping country singles, sell over 50,000 records, and acquire the title of the queen of country music. <\/p>\n
D-I-V-O-R-C-E<\/i> was Wynette\u2019s third solo album and established her as a country superstar. The title song began a seemingly never-ending string of songs about suffering and love lost. Both the album and its lead single would both reach number one on the national country charts, and Wynette was named female vocalist of the year by the Tammy Wynette\u2019s early albums consisted of a few original songs written especially for her, plus a number of country interpretations of some of the popular songs of the day. Producer Billy Sherrill always had the sense to keep it simple, with Wynette\u2019s vocals in the forefront of the production mix allowing the listener to focus on her clarity and purity. <\/p>\n \u201cGentle On My Mind\u201d was given a stripped down, simple performance which suited Wynette\u2019s capabilities well. Her gentle approach to the lyrics gives this song new life and is one of its better interpretations. \u201cThe Legend Of Bonnie and \u201cAll Night Long\u201d and \u201cSweet Dreams\u201d are both ballads that set the tone for hundreds of songs that Wynette would later record during her career. The first is a simple song with a piano as its most prominent instrument, while the second features a steel guitar that builds upon itself throughout.<\/p>\n The album\u2019s title track is a song of love and marriage gone bad. The couple\u2019s child must be protected, so all the hurtful words are spelled rather than actually pronounced. This song is \u201860s country at its best, and Wynette could sing about loss, suffering, and angst better than any woman in country music history. <\/p>\n The final songs are all in the same tearjerker vein: \u201cCome On Home,\u201d \u201cWhen There\u2019s A Fire In Your Heart,\u201d \u201cKiss Away,\u201d and a wonderful version of \u201c D-I-V-O-R-C-E <\/i>is the album that focused attention upon Tammy Wynette. She built on its foundation and produced a series of high quality country albums that would eventually solidify her legacy as one of country music\u2019s premier and legendary performers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":29476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8257],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-41055","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-tammy-wynette","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41055"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41055"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}