Tammy Wynette was considered “the voice” long before those words became the name of a current hit reality show. The singer could impressively sound fragile one moment, then let it rip the next, all ...
On this day (October 16) in 1976, Tammy Wynette reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart with “You and Me,” where it stayed for two weeks. It was her final chart-topper. Her future ...
Tammy Wynette wrote and performed a virtually endless stream of absolutely heartbreaking songs in her heyday. But there’s one song of hers that has always tugged at my heartstrings. That song is “I ...
After creating nine studio albums together and delivering countless glimmering singles to country music's 70s and 80s golden era, Tammy Wynette and George Jones have long been regarded as one of the ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Available everywhere now, the album features songs by Wynette and Jones as ...
Long before Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, long before Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, country music fans adored the legendary George Jones and Tammy Wynette, who got married in 1969, just a year after ...
The singer-songwriter performed the country music classic at her show in Rogers, Arkansas Kristy Sparow/Getty Lana Del Rey’s lyrics are full of references to legendary songwriters — and sometimes she ...
The line between honesty as a brutal truth or marketing trope and the gauze of stylish kitsch laid over female artistic legacies in country music is troublesome. In author Steacy Easton's latest, ...
The unsung godmother of so-called “sad girl” music — and one of pop’s most wrenching chroniclers of feminized pain — has long been misunderstood. By Lindsay Zoladz Earlier this month, at a concert in ...
Sometimes fear can be just as strong a motivator as love. That was the case for Showtime’s George & Tammy music producer and engineer Rachael Moore. Under the influence and recommendation of musical ...
Country Music Hall of Famer and Grand Ole Opry member Tammy Wynette's life and times are surrounded by many bittersweetly imperfect realities. Among them was her death on April 6, 1998, one month ...