If you've read this blog over the years, you know of my love of Tammy Wynette. Here's a tribute in SpliceToday, on the occasion of the 50th birthday of "Stand By Your Man." It's anything but an anthem of female submission, actually, and she had even wilder and more problematic genderish lyrics, like this astounding thing:
However you're reading the gender politics, her early recordings are the best in the history of country music.
