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 ...

he’s been called the First Lady of Country Music, and more than a decade after her death, the title appears more secure than ever. During her tragic and all too short life, Tammy Wynette (1942-1998) ...

If there was a Mount Rushmore for women country musicians, Tammy Wynette would have to be on it. Along with Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn, Wynette practically defined the role of the female country ...

Tammy Wynette got under Jimmy McDonough's skin and into his dreams. The Portland writer spent four years working on a biography of Wynette while going through a personal crisis. His life and that of ...

, 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.

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 ...

July 24, 2017 • NPR's list of the greatest albums made by women, from 1964 to the present. March 14, 2010 • When Tammy Wynette died in 1998, she was known as the First Lady of Country Music. Her music ...

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 & ...

If you were a guy who regularly referred to women as “dames,” considered Nashville utterly “bland,” the song “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” “cockamamie,” rhinestones “eyesores,” male-female country duets “hokey,” ...

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 ...