Anyone torn into the new Tammy Wynette bio, Jimmy McDonough's Tragic Country Queen? "If you drained Dolly Parton of her swift wit and Loretta Lynn of her winning pluck, you'd get Tammy Wynette, a fairly plain, small-minded gal whose searing ambition and begrudging temperament kept her from any lasting contentment," writes New York Times reviewer Allison Glock in a review that ran yesterday.
It's one hell of a review, not to mention one hell of an indictment of a country legend, but Wynette's contradictions and fictions are the stuff of legend themselves.
