Cocaine & Rhinestones

This is just a stupendous physical performance, and she's sitting there, and her body and even her face barely move.

Now, listen, in the '90s, I am an alt rock and flannel and corduroy-wearing, Tool-listening, sarcastic, elitist doofus, and I am not yet taking country music very seriously, and I am therefore not yet prepared to accept Tammy Wynette as my Lord and Savior, but I'll get there because we all eventually get there with Tammy, yes? The wonderful podcaster and author Tyler Mahan Coe, host of the essential country podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, and author of the 2024 book Cocaine & Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

In that book, Tyler describes Tammy's greatness like this.

Quote, "She did not have Patsy Cline's range.

pop twang singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist behind the Brooklyn-based folk-pop outfit Sweetbreads.

We discuss the upcoming Sweetbreads album Punisher of Love, our fondest Dolly Parton memories, and our shared love of the country music podcast Cocaine and Rhinestones.

All in all, the overarching theme of this whole chat was girlhood.

We had our conversation just off the heels of Olivia Rodrigo's mega successful debut, Daisy Chain Fields Festival, which she built off the Lilith Fair model.

That's not the country.

I don't know what it is.

And I love, too, that I think I'm really happy that you're on the show today, too, because every single other conversation about country music on this podcast has been me recommending Cocaine and Rhyme.

Oh, my gosh.

Highly good.

And then an old one called, oh God, Rhinestones.

Oh, it's a country music podcast.

It's Cocaine and Rhinestones.

Okay.

Wonderful podcast about country music.