I want you to picture something for a second. Just think of the ultimate symbol of the dutiful, subservient, traditional 1960s housewife. Oh, I mean, it's an archetype that is just practically burned into the cultural consciousness. You probably hear that iconic song Stand By Your Man playing in your head.

So producers like Sherrill started replacing traditional fiddles and steel guitars with lush orchestral strings and background choirs. They were sweetening the sound to cross over to pop radio. So they released apartment number nine using this style, which hits the charts, and then your good girl's gonna go bad, which launches her to true stardom in 1967. Wait, I have to stop you there, because isn't there a massive contradiction here.

• This is really a story driven biography of a woman who clawed her way out of the Mississip ...