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Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette

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By (author): Tyler Mahan Coe

Illustrated by: Wayne White

From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country musics legendary royal coupleGeorge 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 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. Thats where the trouble started. Only at this new level of fame did Jones realize he suffered from extreme stage fright. His method of dealing with that involved great quantities of alcohol, which his audience soon discovered as Jones more often than not showed up to concerts falling-down drunk or failed to show up at all. But the fans always forgave him because he just kept singing so damn good. Then he got married to Tammy Wynette right around the time she became one of the most famous women alive with the release of Stand by Your Man.

Tammy Wynette grew up believing George Jones was the greatest country singer of all time. After deciding to become a country singer herself, she went to Nashville, got a record deal, then met and married her hero. With the pop crossover success of Stand by Your Man (and the international political drama surrounding the songs lyrics) came a gigantic audience, who were sold a fairy tale image of a couple soon being called The King and Queen of Country Music. Many fans still believe that fairy tale today. The behind-the-scenes truth is very different from the images shown on album covers.

Illustrated throughout by singular artist Wayne White, Cocaine & Rhinestones is an unprecedented look at the lives of two indelible country icons, reframing their careers within country music as well as modern history itself. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 1145g
  • Dimensions: 187 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781668015186

About Tyler Mahan Coe

Tyler Mahan Coe is the host writer and producer of the podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music. Within a year of debut the programs first season rose from country fan favorite to international phenomenon becoming the #1 music podcast on Apples charts in the US and UK simultaneously. The show remains an independent one-man operation. A former touring guitarist Tyler lives in Nashville Tennessee. Wayne White is an artist art director illustrator and puppeteer. Born and raised in Chattanooga Wayne has used his memories of the South to create inspired works for film television and the fine art world. He has worked as an illustrator for The New York Times Raw Magazine and the Village Voice and in 1986 became a designer for the hit television show Pee-wees Playhouse where his work won three Emmys. He also worked in the music video industry winning Billboard and MTV Music Video Awards as an art director for seminal music videos including The Smashing Pumpkins Tonight Tonight and Peter Gabriels Big Time. His life and career are the subjects of the book Maybe Now Ill Get the Respect I So Richly Deserve and the documentary Beauty Is Embarrassing. Wayne is married to cartoonist and writer Mimi Pond. They live in Los Angeles.

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