Tammy Wynette went to see a music producer feeling scared and with her hair disheveled Billy Sherrill was the co-writer and producer of “Stand by Your Man.” During a 2000 interview with NPR, he ...

Wynette released her first album in the late ’60s. It didn’t take long for her distinctive voice to stand out among her peers. In particular, country music was wholly dominated by men at that point.

Tammy Wynette was turned down by a number of labels before songwriter, producer, and record executive Billy Sherrill signed her to Epic Records in 1968. Once on board, Wynette and Sherrill wrote her ...

This month in 1969: Mickey Mantle announced his retirement from baseball; Sirhan Sirhan testified that he killed Robert Kennedy; Apollo 9 launched its first test of a lunar module; and a young lady ...

Lana Del Rey surprised fans in Rogers, Arkansas, Tuesday night with a rendition of Tammy Wynette‘s Number One country hit from 1968, “Stand by Your Man.” The stage was dark when the first chords ...

The singer performed the classic country song at Robert’s Western World on Sunday Steve Granitz/FilmMagic Lana Del Rey doesn’t just pick up shifts at Waffle House — she sings at dive bars, too! The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Shannon as George Jones and Jessica Chastain as Tammy Wynette in George & Tammy. (Photo: Dana Hawley/Courtesy of Showtime) ...

If there’s one thing George & Tammy wants viewers to take away, it’s that Tammy Wynette really lived her music. This is true: The real Wynette suffered through a series of controlling (and, at times, ...