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She then drove off with Jones, accompanied by her three daughters from her first marriage.

Wynette and Jones' union took their careers to a new level

Wynette quickly flew to Mexico and got divorced (though this was apparently unnecessary, as she'd married so soon after the end of her first marriage that the second was invalid).

Wynette appreciated their being back together, noting, "There’s something about George and me that makes our voices blend."

After years of ill health, Wynette died on April 6, 1998. Jones later stated, "I let Tammy have everything — didn't fight it." Wynette ended up with their band, the tour bus, their house in Nashville and custody of their daughter.

Post-divorce, Jones said they got 'along better than we ever did'

After the split, Jones, who would later say he'd "ached about our divorce," sometimes drove from Alabama to Nashville just to spin through the driveway at the home they'd formerly shared.

When they fought after Jones missed a recording session, Jones' response was to buy a Cadillac and head to Florida.

Wynette again filed for divorce. She played Wynette in five episodes 2008 of Sordid Lives: The Series, which starred the late Olivia Newton-John and Leslie Jordan.

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Remembered as the "First Lady of Country Music," Wynette’s song ...

GEORGE & TAMMY chronicles country music power couple Tammy Wynette and George Jones, whose complicated-but-enduring relationship inspired some of the most iconic music of all time. Jones continued the excessive drinking he'd indulged in before the marriage and the pair often fought.

In 1995, the former partners reunited for the duets album One and another tour. "My anger and pain melted into your loving arms and we mended our hearts like they were sewn together. Facing his demons also allowed Jones to resume his career. "I didn't understand then, but years later my memaw told me you used to come by our house often while I was at school, and you'd stay in my room for hours while holding my picture on my bed and cry.

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Bryan Jones

Bryan was one of two children to come from Jones' marriage to Shirley Ann Corley. "When we were onstage," Jones shared, "we were in our own little heaven."

Tammy Wynette and George Jones performing at Wembley Arena in London in 1981

The pair split, filed for divorced, reconciled and then officially divorced

Yet success didn't result in a happy home life.

In 1978, she settled down with her fifth husband, George Richey, a songwriter who became her manager. This prompted Wynette to admit she loved him, too. That year they exchanged Christmas gifts as well. and Mrs. Country Music." They were content to vary top billing depending on who would be the bigger attraction for a venue. Born Tamala Georgette Jones on Oct.

5, 1970 in Lakeland, Fla., the second-generation star recorded her first song, the father-daughter duet "Daddy Come Home," at age 10 and performed it on an HBO special. The final album before Jones' death, 2008's Burn Your Playhouse Down: The Unreleased Duets features another George and Georgette collaboration, "You and Me and Time." She's also honored her singer-songwriter mother in song, debuting "I Hope You Knew" on Mother's Day in 1999— a year after Wynette's death.

They met at a Nashville recording studio, then improved their acquaintance on the road. It captures the ups and downs of being raised by a famous parent who'd battled with addiction.

"When I was very young and you were struggling, you wanted to protect me from that," Lennon wrote. On February 16, 1969, Wynette and Jones wed.