Calling myself a huge fan of Tammy Wynette is an understatement. She has always been #1 in my mind, therefore I have been anxious to find new CD releases of her albums. I bought the Collector's Edition which was remixed by Billy Sherrill himself and immediately wondered what went wrong. I love the idea of having an "uncut" version of the songs and being able to hear Tammy, Billy, and the studio musicians conversing with one another, but all of the previously unreleased numbers were evidently mastered on a different speed machine. It's like listening to a 33 rpm record played at 45 rpm. Common Epic Records! The First Lady of Country Music deserves much more than she got out of this tribute. I've never heard of a recall on a CD, but Epic needs to remaster this one and recall and replace the entire stock with a carefully crafted tribute to Tammy. Needless to say, I am disappointed in this release. Epic, Tammy gave her all. Now it's your turn.

First off, it is not Tammy Wynette that disappoints in this collection, it is EPIC Records that fails. They present this collection undocumented, boast more "unreleased" songs than are contained in the collection and their remixing of these early recordings is poor to say the least, with Wynette's voice sounding sped up to sometimes near Minnie Mouse quality. EPIC (Sony Music) should show as much loyalty to Tammy as she did them. Future (and hopefully there will be more) releases should be placed in more considerate production hands.

This is a wonderful CD with vocals and voice from our Queen of Country Music. It allows the listener a bit of insight to Tammy during her recording of some of the songs. A must have!!

I've grown up in Florida in the 60's. Tammy was part of my life (and living music). She made some great albums and I am despirately trying to get hold of them. I live in Germany now and would travel far if I could get her LP's or CD's of "way back when". My Mother went through really hard times and Tammy's music helped her. If anyone knows how to get hold of such old versions a very good deed would be done and my friendship won!!