Tammy Wynette, as even non-country music fans know, sang Stand By Your Man. It is a rousing anthem about female martyrdom, in which Tammy exhorts listeners to Stand By Your Man whatever happens, ...

Early in Jimmy McDonough's engrossing biography of Tammy Wynette, a delicious irony emerges: The woman who made history extolling gals to "Stand By Your Man" loved and left four husbands -- and ...

Tammy Wynette, born Virginia Wynette Pugh, was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers. She was called the "First ...

On July 8, 1968, Tammy Wynette released her third studio album, D-I-V-O-R-C-E. Known for its title track — which was then in the middle of a three-week run at No. 1 atop the country charts — the ...

When Tammy Wynette died in 1998, she was known as the First Lady of Country Music. She was born in 1942, as Virginia Wynette Pugh, in a rural county of Mississippi. By the time she was in her mid-20s, ...

, since that long-ago day, at a friend’s house, he’d first heard “Apartment No. 9.” Her voice — it was a vessel so pure and honest it could make you ache inside. Jimmy, as a young man, felt the pain.

Tammy Wynette is one of the most popular figures in country music. Fans love the music Wynette released before her death in 1998, and the singer’s personal life also piqued fans’ interest. Toward the ...

Tammy Wynette's name is a necessary inclusion to any discussion about country music's greatest women, and her resume and legacy certainly earned her a high spot on this list of country music's most ...

Before country music icons George Jones and Tammy Wynette married and became like royalty in their genre, they were married to other people. And during a spat between Wynette and her second husband, ...

I am constitutionally incapable of discussing doomed country music super-couple George Jones and Tammy Wynette without mentioning season two of Tyler Mahan Coe’s deep and discursive podcast Cocaine & ...