Tammy Wynette | Michael Putland/Getty Images Tammy Wynette had a crystal bowl of cotton. Wynette was born in Mississippi in 1942. When she was less than a year old, her father died from a brain tumor.

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 ...

Tammy Wynette and George Jones. Redferns “There’s a tear in every word,” is how longtime record producer Billy Sherrill described Tammy Wynette’s singing.

Disputatious county music king and queen George Jones and Tammy Wynette get a double biopic on Showtime. Review: 'George & Tammy' is a cautionary love story with good songs - Los Angeles Times ...

George & Tammy is excellent at picking out and recreating all of the most important steps in Jones and Wynette’s personal stories and careers, even if the timeline isn’t always exactly right. The show ...

Tammy Wynette and George Jones perfoming in London in 1981, years after their divorce. Getty Images “I do think sometimes when she sang it felt primal,” Chastain said.

Two years after their divorce, George Jones still regularly made the drive to Tammy Wynette’s Nashville home. Once there, he’d take several fast spins around the circular driveway they once ...

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.” ...

Tammy Wynette: “’Til I Can Make It on My Own” Wynette co-wrote this 1976 hit, one of her greatest torch songs, with Sherrill and her soon-to-be fifth husband, the country songwriter George ...

Jessica Chastain underwent a physical transformation to portray Tammy Wynette in the upcoming Paramount Network series George & Tammy.And you might be thinking, didn’t she just do that? Well ...

Wynette was the First Lady of Country, or as biographer Jimmy McDonough dubbed her, the Tragic Country Queen: “In terms of a slow, sad song, nobody could rip it up like Tammy. She is just ...

Tammy Wynette would perform while impaired. Wynette was born in Mississippi in 1942. Her father died when she was less than a year old, and after her father’s death, her mother moved to Tennessee.