Tammy Wynette ~ Similar Artists

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Patsy Cline - 100% match to Tammy Wynette

Virginia Patterson Hensley, 8 September 1932, Gore, near Winchester, Virginia, USA, d. 5 March 1963, Camden, Tennessee, USA. Her father, Sam Hensley, already had two children from a previous marriage when he married Hilda, Patsy's mother - a woman many years his junior. Hilda... Read more

George Jones - 78% match to Tammy Wynette

George Glenn Jones, 12 September 1931, Saratoga, Texas, USA. Jones is the greatest of honky tonk singers but he has also been a victim of its lifestyle. He learned guitar in his youth, and in 1947, was hired by the husband-and-wife duo Eddie And Pearl. This developed into his... Read more

Roger Miller - 78% match to Tammy Wynette

2 January 1936, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, d. 25 October 1992, Los Angeles, California, USA. Miller was brought up in Erick, Oklahoma, and during the late 50s, moved to Nashville, where he worked as a songwriter. His "Invitation To The Blues" was a minor success for Ray Price, as... Read more

Buck Owens - 77% match to Tammy Wynette

Alvis Edgar Owens Jnr., 12 August 1929, Sherman, Texas, USA, d. 25 March 2006, USA, Bakersfield, California, USA. Buck Owens became one of the leading country music stars of the 60s and 70s, along with Merle Haggard, the leading exponent of the "west coast sound". Owens gave... Read more

Billie Jo Spears - 75% match to Tammy Wynette

14 January 1937, Beaumont, Texas, USA. Discovered by songwriter Jack Rhodes, Spears' first record, as Billie Jo Moore, "Too Old For Toys, Too Young For Boys", earned her $4,200 at the age of 15. Despite appearances on The Louisiana Hayride, she did not record regularly until she... Read more

Dolly Parton - 73% match to Tammy Wynette

19 January 1946, Sevierville, Tennessee, USA. Dolly Rebecca Parton's poor farming parents paid the doctor in cornmeal for attending the birth of the fourth of their 12 offspring. After her appearances as a singing guitarist on local radio as a child, including the Grand Ole Opry... Read more

Loretta Lynn - 72% match to Tammy Wynette

Loretta Webb, 14 April 1935, Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, USA. Lynn is a coalminer's daughter, being the second of the eight children of Ted and Clara Webb. She is one-quarter Cherokee and her name came from her mother's fondness for movie star Loretta Young. She was raised in a... Read more

Reba McEntire - 70% match to Tammy Wynette

28 March 1955, Chockie, Oklahoma, USA. One of four children, McEntire's family owned a 7,000-acre ranch and participated in rodeos, a background which later inspired the song "Daddy". She sang with her sister Susie and brother Pake McEntire as the Singing McEntires, and in 1972,... Read more

Hank Williams - 68% match to Tammy Wynette

Hiram (misspelled on birth certificate as Hiriam) Williams, 17 September 1923, Georgiana, Alabama, USA, d. 1 January 1953, on the road between Montgomery, Alabama and Oak Hill, West Virginia, USA. Misspelling notwithstanding, Williams disliked the name and took to calling... Read more

Kris Kristofferson - 65% match to Tammy Wynette

Kristoffer Kristofferson, 22 June 1936, Brownsville, Texas, USA. Kristofferson, a key figure in the "New Nashville" country movement of the early 70s, began his singing career in Europe. Previously a Golden Gloves boxer and a Creative Literature student at Ponoma College in... Read more