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Stand by: The Balladography of Tammy Wynette
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ISBN13: 9798171417062
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 2 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 2 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In her final years touring, Tammy Wynette would disconnect herself from a portable IV line just long enough to walk onstage and sing, then reconnect it the moment she stepped off. It is a fitting image for a woman whose signature song asked women to endure, and whose own life asked the same thing of her, again and again, in ways both chosen and imposed.
STAND BY: The Balladography of Tammy Wynette traces her path from a Mississippi cotton farm and a father's dying wish that she learn his piano, through beauty school and single motherhood, to the twenty-minute studio session that produced the best-selling single by a woman in country music history. It follows her tumultuous marriage to George Jones, a duet partnership that outlasted their divorce by two decades, an unlikely 1991 hit with British dance act the KLF, and the genuinely unresolved questions, addressed honestly rather than sensationalized, surrounding a disputed 1978 incident and the family dispute that followed her 1998 death.
Grounded in the historical record, this balladography asks what it actually costs a person to keep proving, night after night, exactly how much she can endure.
Grounded in the historical record, this balladography asks what it actually costs a person to keep proving, night after night, exactly how much she can endure.
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