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A country singer once criticized the message of Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man" and said it promoted a negative message to women.
Chastain talked to The Guardian about playing Wynette, comparing her to other women in county music. She argued that Wynette’s songs had to reflect more old-fashioned values for women.
The unsung godmother of so-called “sad girl” music — and one of pop’s most wrenching chroniclers of feminized pain — has long been misunderstood.
It was the first song Wynette professionally recorded, and Jessica Chastain, who played Tammy in Showtime’s George & Tammy series, told Billboard it’s her favorite tune from the woman she ...
Jessica Chastain, who stars as Tammy Wynette opposite Michael Shannon as George Jones in Showtime's "George & Tammy," talks about the undying love between the country music icons despite their ...
Knocking on his hotel room door Tammy is greeted by a half-naked woman. Jones and Wynette proceed to attempt to have a discussion about touring together while he’s in bed with two women.
On Oct. 4, 1978, Tammy Wynette was reportedly abducted from the parking lot of the Cain-Sloan Department Store in the Nashville neighborhood of Green Hills.
This Tammy Wynette song breaks my heart every time it comes on; you might just share that same experience after one listen.
In August 1968, Tammy Wynette and her producer Billy Sherrill recorded the song that would become her signature — a song that feminists pointed to as degrading to women.
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.
Before they even met, Tammy Wynette and George Jones were both supremely talented but breathtakingly messy humans. Once the country music legends got together (both personally and professionally), ...
Showtime's 'George & Tammy' miniseries stars Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon as country music stars Tammy Wynette and George Jones.