Search - Tammy Wynette :: Stand By Your Man

Solid LP featuring career-defining hit single

hyperbolium | Earth, USA | 05/16/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"An essential, upgraded, reissue representing potent, early work from Wynette's catalog. Sony has cleaned up the audio, added new liner notes and augmented the original disc with bonus tracks.The title track from Wynette's third album proved to be her indelible signature, sketched previously in hits like "You're Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" and "D-I-V-O-R-C-E." On the brink of her third marriage (a rocky affair with George Jones), Wynette sang her woeful tales with authority. From jilted wives to lonely, desperate children, her performances were drenched in emotion.Buy it for the single and be surprised by the quality of the entire LP."

Vintage sixties country from Tammy

Peter Durward Harris | Leicester England | 05/31/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album yielded the biggest hit that Tammy ever had - indeed, it was one of the most successful country singles of the 20th century. Although this album and the single from it was released in 1968, it was in 1975 that Stand by your man went all the way to number one in the British pop charts. If you're even thinking of buying this album, you are likely to be familiar with this song already and you probably already have at least one compilation containing a selection of her classic songs.This was actually Tammy's fourth album. The first three contained plenty of covers of famous songs, but you won't find any of those here. There are some songs about children - Joey, Cry cry again and Don't make me go to school - and several songs in which Tammy stands by her man, continuing the theme of the title track. One of these, Forever yours, was eventually covered (two or three years later) by the great but under-rated Dottie West and became a country hit for her. Tammy's version was not released as a single. Another song here, I'm only a woman, was also a hit when later covered by Dottie - it was not even included on the original album but was recorded at the same sessions. So there were two songs here that could have been hits for Tammy but weren't.Of Tammy's original albums, this was certainly one of the best, although if you haven't got any of her music, you ought to consider one of the many compilations available."