Tammy Wynette: Brian Brennan’s Brief Encounter
Tammy Wynette said that if she had to make a choice between husband and career, she would choose the music first. As Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports in his new time capsule piece, she revealed this to him just as she was about to divorce her fourth husband, Nashville real estate executive Michael Tomlin. An excerpt of excerpt of Brennan’s Brief Encounters column, Troubled First Lady of Country Music: Tammy Wynette (subscription*): Tammy Wynette was no longer standing by her man when I saw her perform at a nightclub in 1976. At least, she was no longer singing with ex-husband George Jones, with whom