Disco de Tammy Wynette: “Legendary Performances”

Tammy Wynette: Legendary Performances

Distributed by Sony BMG

Release Date: August 19, 2008

Selection No.: 826663-10979

Suggested List Price: $14.98

Performances

1. Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) The Stonemans (1967)

2. Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad The Bill Anderson Show (1967)

3. I Don't Wanna Play House The Bill Anderson Show (1967)

4. D-I-V-O-R-C-E CMA Awards (1968)

5. Stand By Your Man The Wilburn Brothers Show (1969)

6. Reach Out Your Hand CMA Awards (1972)

7. We Loved It Away (duet with George Jones) Pop! Goes The Country (1974)

8. Woman To Woman Pop! Goes The Country (1974)

9. 'Til I Can Make It On My Own Johnny Cash and Friends (1976)

10. Golden Ring (duet with George Jones) Country Music Hit Parade (1977)

11. You And Me Country Music Hit Parade (1977)

12. Near You (duet with George Jones) Country Music Hit Parade (1977)

13. Cowboys Don't Shoot Straight (Like They Used To) Country Comes Home (1981)

14. He Was There (When I Needed You) NBC Tammy Wynette Special (1982)

15. We're Gonna Hold On (duet with George Jones) NBC Tammy Wynette Special (1982)

Extras

Tammy Wynette's Hall of Fame Induction

Vintage Interviews with Tammy Wynette

Huell Howser Exclusive: Wynette/Richey Wedding Footage

This looks like the set list, this should be ab fab, cannot wait to see these performances from Tammy.

DVD review: Tammy Wynette, 'Legendary Performances'

Mick LaSalle

Sunday, July 27, 2008

I had no intention of watching this entire DVD. I popped it into the machine only because I realized that I'd never actually seen Tammy Wynette in performance, only heard her. Well, she was brilliant. She arrived as an artist fully formed, in her early 20s, having already endured poverty, child labor, a marriage (with kids) and a divorce. The DVD, which consists of television performances over the course of 14 years, begins with Wynette singing on Southern TV stations, and there's no mistaking that hers was an authentic voice of rural poverty. She was, from the beginning, a brilliant singing actress. She had great intelligence and a quiet but unmistakable toughness. And her voice was amazing. In her earliest performances, she keeps sending the sound mix into distortion because her voice is overpowering the equipment. Even as her wigs got bigger and the music took on a schmaltzy quality, she was amazingly consistent in her focus and emotional honesty. It's funny how artists can get written off in convenient shorthand. For those not fans of country music, Wynette is merely the voice of "Stand By Your Man" (albeit a great song), but she was much more - a poet of marital misery, who co-wrote some of her best-known songs. When Wynette sang it, she meant it. The special features are modest but helpful: snippets from 1980s interviews, footage from her 1978 wedding and scenes of her induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, months after her premature death in 1998 at age 55.

TAMMY WYNETTE: LEGENDARY PERFORMANCES

1967-81

NOT RATED

SONY BMG

$14.98

This article appeared on page N - 27 of the San Francisco Chronicle