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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

, 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.

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, ...

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 and George Jones were married from 1969 to 1975 Emily Shiffer is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has been featured in Women's Health, ...

e Media Theatre in association with The Heartbreak Company is casting for "The Heroine of Heartbreak—Tammy Wynette Remembered," a new bio-musical dealing with the life point of view as expressed in ...

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, ...

The post Why Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon Had to Sing “For Real” in Bio-Drama George and Tammy appeared first on Consequence. No one would ever describe George & Tammy as “too easy” — the ...