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 was not just a big name in country music; she sang about the real lives of many women: love, hard times, and ...

"Stand By Your Man" was a co-wrote by Tammy along with producer Billy Sherrill, and became the lead single and title track of her subsequent album, which was released in 1969.

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 ...

Sherrill, Jones and Wynette produced art that was tragicomic, as in Jones’ sublime “The Grand Tour,” or postmodernist, as in 1976’s “Billy Ray Wrote a Song,” where a Jones-like ...

Wynette said, "Billy Sherrill gave the musicians a short break and he and I went upstairs to his office to come up with one more song ... Tammy Wynette placed 73 songs on the country music ...

In an interview with The Tennessean, “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” co-writer Bobby Braddock explained that it took him bringing the song to Wynette’s producer Billy Sherrill for the song to take off ...

Sherrill, Jones and Wynette produced art that was tragicomic, as in Jones' 1974 sublime "The Grand Tour," or postmodernist, as in 1976's "Billy Ray Wrote a Song," where a Jones-like character's ...

Tammy Wynette—born in rural Itawamba County, ... Nashville with no means of support, lived in a motel, and auditioned without an appointment at the office of producer Billy Sherrill, ...

Dana Hawley/SHOWTIME; Lynne McAfee/Shutterstock. Tammy Wynette, played by Jessica Chastain in the six-episode limited series George & Tammy, was a country icon born May 5, 1942, in Mississippi ...

Wynette and Jones’s love-story-as-trash fire has been recounted in numerous memoirs and biographies, and dramatized in the ...

George Jones and Tammy Wynette's impact on country music is celebrated in a new Showtime film. Charley Crockett, Hannah Dasher and others discuss it.