Tammy Wynette, played by Jessica Chastain in the six-episode limited series George & Tammy, was a country icon born May 5, 1942, in Mississippi. Early in life, Wynette, born Virginia Wynette Pugh ...

Reba McEntire and Tammy Wynette are both icons of country music. They solidified their places as women in a “boy’s club” while singing about heartache from their perspective. And ...

And the same is true of Tammy Wynette. However ... opposite musician-actor Michael Shannon as country icon George Jones, as an all-too-familiar country superstar. That was never the plan.

(Possibly) FICTION. The first episode sees Tammy Wynette meeting George Jones after a night of hard partying on his part. Knocking on his hotel room door Tammy is greeted by a half-naked woman.

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.” ...

Georgette Jones, the daughter of George Jones and Tammy Wynette, says Showtime’s limited ... as human beings before they think of them as icons or idols. Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain ...

I’ve been in pain,” Tammy Wynette slurs into a microphone in the fifth episode of George & Tammy. The country music icon, played here by Jessica Chastain, isn’t performing one of her more ...

I must admit that as much as I love the classic recordings of country music king and queen George Jones and Tammy Wynette — a whole damn lot — my first thought on learning that they would be ...

By Lindsay Zoladz For years, I’ve been waiting for the right moment to write about one of my favorite country singers, the great, oft-misunderstood Tammy Wynette. Throughout this year ...