it might surprise you, or it might not, to know that my favorite singer of all times in any genre is tammy wynette, so i'm glad to learn about an excellent bio. she sounds like a handful, which one could already detect. if you're a hip hop artist, the beat is mechanized, perfectly consistent. if you're a blues or a bluegrass artist, the tempo increases as you go. if you're a real country artist, it slows down. what you want to check out is the second item in the reel below: "too far gone." it's as extreme as country singing ever got: tammy delays so long hitting the note that you begin to wonder if the song can ever end. the agony is exquisite.



i think what i really enjoy is the way she tears open my chest with her bare hands and devours my heart in a blood frenzy.