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, ...

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 ...

The soap-opera relationships of musical royalty have inspired plenty of movies, including a 1981 made-for-TV version of Tammy Wynette's biography, appropriately titled "Stand By Your Man." With a ...

One of the most prolific romances in country music history was between George Jones and Tammy Wynette. While the masses often view both these individuals as a pair, they had fascinating lives and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 & ...

Dolly Parton has been sharing videos in which she reminisces about her life in show business on her new Substack account — and in the latest offering, she recalls working alongside some of her fellow ...

Anyone torn into the new Tammy Wynette bio, Jimmy McDonough's Tragic Country Queen? "If you drained Dolly Parton of her swift wit and Loretta Lynn of her winning pluck, you'd get Tammy Wynette, a ...