Singer Sherry Bryce (nee Shirley Jane Cooper, b. 1946) was an Alabama gal who originally hit Nashville working as a songwriter, though she emerged as a recording star in the early 1970s, working as a protegee of honkytonker Mel Tillis. Her recording career was brief, despite the success of numerous duets with Tillis, and two albums to her name. By the decade's end, Bryce had retired from performing and concentrated on managing the sizeable broadcast empire she co-owned with her husband, former deejay and country music empresario Mack Sanders. Here's a quick look at her work...

Sherry Bryce & Mel Tillis "Living And Learning/Take My Hand" (MGM Records, 1971) (LP)

Sherry Bryce "Treat Me Like A Lady" (MGM Records, 1973) (LP)

Sherry Bryce & Mel Tillis "Let's Go All The Way Tonight" (MGM Records, 1974) (LP)

Sherry Bryce "This Song's For You" (MGM Records, 1975) (LP)

Mack Sanders "Tonkin' The Blues" (Pilot Records, 1977) (LP)
(Produced by Tommy Allsup, Sherry Bryce Sanders, Terry Skinner & Tom Sparkman)
Bryce and Sanders collaborated on this flashy set of latter-day western swing, with an all-star cast that included studio heavyweights such as steel player Curly Chalker, pianist Bill Purcell, Hargus Pig Robbins, Buddy Spicher, and Jerry Wallace, and perhaps most intriguingly, twang-bar king Travis Wammack on lead guitar. The album was recorded in separate sessions in Nashville and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, with Bryce producing the Alabama studio. Although she doesn't perform on the album, she penned three songs, "Close Down the Honky Tonks," "Honky Tonk Bands" and "Sometimes Bad, Sometimes Good, Sometimes Gone," while Sanders contributed two others, "Sweet Country Girl" and the title track, "Tonkin' The Blues."

• Wikipedia: Sherry Bryce

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