EVERYONE knows Stand By Your Man, but little is known of the woman who sang it.
Mississipi-born Virginia Wynette Pugh came from poverty but had an amazing singing voice.
After her first marriage broke down, she and her three children took off to Nashville, the heart of country music, where she was an overnight success.
Tammy made many hit records, yet her personal life was turbulent with five husbands, four children, a bizarre unsolved kidnap attempt and many years of addiction to painkillers which eventually led to her premature demise at 55.
Well researched, amusing and moving.
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