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Tammy Wynette: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 14 June 1975

THREE MONTHS ago Tammy Wynette was little more than cowboy fodder in Britain, appealing only to a small body of country freaks. But, one smasheroo ...

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George Jones & Tammy Wynette: The Playroom, Atlanta; Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty: City Auditorium, Atlanta

Live Review by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 10 March 1969

THE LAST two weeks have been good ones for country music in Atlanta. George Jones and Tammy Wynette were at the Playroom; Merle Haggard's latest ...

Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette and George Jones: Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta GA

Live Review by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 31 February 1972

GOOD COUNTRY ...

Tammy Wynette: My Man (Epic KE-31717)

Review by Nick Tosches, Country Music, March 1973

THERE HAS always been something about Tammy Wynette that has set her slightly apart from the rest of country music's singing queens. Her songs deal ...

Shower of Stars: George Jones & Tammy Wynette

Profile by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 5 March 1973

ONCE AGAIN it's Shower of Stars time. A good chance to see some of country music's finest in person at pretty reasonable prices. ...

Tammy Wynette and George Jones: Philharmonic Hall, New York NY

Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 27 March 1973

Wynette and Jones Present, in Songs, Flavor of Nashville ...

Tammy Wynette/Toni & Terry albums

Review by Charlie Gillett, Rolling Stone, 26 April 1973

Toni and Terry: Cross CountryTammy Wynette: My Man ...

Tammy Wynette: Truckers' Choice

Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 19 April 1975

No-one captures the ideals of Middle America quite like Tammy Wynette. And she's got the hits to prove it — an astounding 24 Number Ones. ...

Tammy Wynette: Going UP Country

Report by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 14 June 1975

How come a seven-year-old single, re-issued for the fifth time, made it to number one? Robert Partridge gets the full story behind Tammy Wynette's 'Stand ...

Cher: Stars/Cher's Greatest Hits; Tammy Wynette: The Best Of Tammy Wynette

Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 21 June 1975

IN MANY WAYS Cher and Tammy Wynette make up the two facets of the Cosmopolitan philosophy, that candy coated version of feminism that seems to ...

Boots, Brandy, Boots, Bouffants + Buffy

Report and Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 24 April 1976

THERE WERE more Stetson hats than you could shake a stick at in Wembley last weekend. ...

Tammy Wynette: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 16 September 1978

SO ENTRENCHED is the tradition of slick showmanship and synthetic sincerity among buxom country goddesses that we should no longer be surprised or nauseated by ...

Tammy Wynette: Stand By Your Record Producer

Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 16 September 1978

Tammy Wynette, over here for a short tour, lectures COLIN IRWIN on how to be an Average Superstar... ...

Wembley Country Festival: The Metropolitan Soap Opera

Report by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, 28 April 1979

Friendly and polite or mean and bigoted? Even transferred to North London, the country music audience reflects the ambiguous small-town mentality. MARY HARRON heard Tammy ...

Tammy Wynette: Wembley Conference Centre, London

Live Review by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 16 April 1983

DANG MA POONS!* * Lit: Make mine a whiskey sour and a marriage on the rocks. ...

Tammy Wynette: Just a country girl at heart

Profile and Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 27 May 1987

David Sinclair talks to American singer Tammy Wynette, in Britain as part of her long-awaited European tour. ...

Stand By Your Van: Tammy Meets the KLF

Interview by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 23 November 1992

Welcome to Mu Mu Land, where hooded figures drive ice-cream vans and nothing is quite like it is in Tennessee. Which is a welcome change ...

Sister Sledge: Forum, London; Tammy Wynette: Palladium, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 30 November 1993

Standby your sisters: Revived seventies disco queens Sister Sledge and the First Lady of country music Tammy Wynette woo London ...

Stand By Your Ex: George Jones and Tammy Wynette

Interview by Mark Cooper, MOJO, October 1995

Wait till I get you home...to Splitsville, Tennessee, where George Jones and Tommy Wynette have resided since the classic song D.I.V.O.R.C.E. came true following perhaps ...

George Jones & Tammy Wynette: Hammersmith Apollo, London

Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, November 1995

LONG AGO, in the days before hats and hi-tech rednecks, country music was a soap opera and George Jones and Tammy Wynette were its Dirty ...

Tammy Wynette: First Lady Of Country

Obituary by Fred Dellar, MOJO, June 1998

TAMMY always stood by her fans. Often at the end of a gig, she'd just sit around signing autographs. Once, when her life was threatened, ...

The Mad Life And Crazy Death of Tammy Wynette

Overview by Lucy O'Brien, Q, August 1999

Burt Reynolds nearly died in her bath, George Jones escaped on her lawn-mower, and her second husband traded pictures of her in the nuddy. She ...

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