George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 - April 26, 2013) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. She achieved international fame for her long list of hit records, including her famous song "He Stopped Loving Her Today", as well as her distinctive voice and phrases. During the last twenty years of his life, Jones has often been called the greatest live country singer. Country music expert Bill Malone wrote, "For two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immersed himself entirely in his lyrics, and in his mood, his audience is almost impossible to become involved." Waylon Jennings expressed a similar opinion in his song "It's Alright": "If we can all sound the way we want, we all sound like George Jones." His nose and facial features make Jones the nickname "The Possum."
Born in Texas, Jones first heard country music when he was seven and was given a guitar at the age of nine. He married his first wife, Dorothy Bonvillion, in 1950, and divorced in 1951. He served in the United States Marine Corps and was dismissed in 1953. He married Shirley Ann Corley in 1954. In 1959, Jones recorded "White Lightning, "written by JP Richardson, who launched his career as a singer. The marriage both ended in divorce in 1968; she married fellow country musician Tammy Wynette a year later. Years of alcohol addiction caused his health to deteriorate and caused many of his performances to disappear, earning him the nickname "No Show Jones." After his divorce from Wynette in 1975, Jones married his fourth wife, Nancy Sepulvado, in 1983 and became aware for good in 1999. Jones died in 2013, aged 81, from hypoxic respiratory failure. During his career, Jones has more than 150 hits, either as a solo artist or in duets with other artists.
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George Glenn Jones was born on September 12, 1931 in Saratoga, Texas, and grew up in Colmesneil, Texas, with his brother and five sisters. His father, George Washington Jones, worked at the shipyard and played harmonica and guitar while his mother Clara played the piano at Pentecostal Church on Sunday. During his delivery, one of the doctors dropped Jones and broke his arm. When he was seven years old, his parents bought a radio and he heard country music for the first time. Jones remembered for Billboard in 2006 that he would be lying in bed with his parents on Saturday night listening to the Grand Ole Opry and insisting that his mother wake him if he fell asleep so he could hear Roy Acuff or Bill Monroe. In his autobiography, Jones explained that the early death of his sister Ethel spurred his father's drinking problem and, with all accounts, George Washington Jones could be physically and emotionally abusive toward him. wife and children when she drinks. In the book of George Jones: The Life and Times of Honky Tonk Legend, Bob Allen tells how George Washington Jones will return home in the middle of the night with his drunken cronies, waking up George who is frightened. Glenn Jones and demanded that he sing for them or face a beating. In a CMT episode of Inside Fame dedicated to Jones's life, country music historian Robert K. Oermann was amazed, "You would think that would make him not a singer, because it was so insulting to him" But the opposite happened ; he became a chronic singer. She became a man who had to sing. "In the same program, Jones admits that he remains ambivalent and upset with his father until the day he dies and is observed in his autobiography" The Jones family makeup does not sit with booze... Dad is an unusual drinker. She drank excessively but never while working, and she is probably the hardest working person I've ever known. "His father bought him his first guitar at the age of nine and he studied his first chord and song in the church and there were some photographs of a young George singing on the streets of Beaumont.
He left home at 16 and went to Jasper, Texas, where he sang and played on KTXJ radio station with fellow musician Dalton Henderson. From there, he worked on the KRIC radio station. During one show that afternoon, Jones met his idol, Hank Williams ("I just stared," he wrote later). In the 1989 video documentary Same Ole Me, Jones admitted, "I can not think or eat anything except it's Hank Williams, and I can not wait for the next recording to come out. greatest. "He married his first wife Dorothy Bonvillion in 1950, but they divorced in 1951. He enlisted in the United States Marines until he left in 1953. He was stationed in San Jose, California for all his services.
First record (1954-1957)
Jones married Shirley Ann Corley in 1954. His first record, "No Self-Client Agreement", was recorded on January 19, and appeared in February at Starday Records, starting a singer association with producer and mentor H.W. "Pappy" Daily. The song was completely cut in the common room with Starday Records, Jack Starnes, and produced by Starnes. Jones also worked at KTRM (now KZZB) in Beaumont around this time. Deejay Gordon Baxter told Nick Tosches that Jones earned the nickname "possum" while working there: "One of the broadcasters there, Slim Watts, called him George P. Willicker Picklepuss Possum Jones.For one thing, he cut his hair short, like a stomach possum. "He had a stupid nose and eyes, like a possum." During the early recording sessions, Daily counseled Jones for trying to sound too much like his heroes Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell. In the coming years, Jones will not talk much about music production at Starday, given to NPR in 1996 that "it was a terrible sound." We recorded in a small room of a house on a highway near Beaumont You could hear We had to stop many times - so because it is not soundproof, only the crate is nailed to the wall and the big old truck will pass and make a lot of noise and we have to start all over again. " Jones's first hit came with "Why Baby Why" in 1955. That same year, while on tour as a cast member of Louisiana Hayride, Jones met and played performances with Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. "I do not know him well," Jones said of Presley to Nick Tosches in 1994. "He lives pretty much with his friends around him in the locker room.Nobody seems to be around him all the time to talk to him." Jones will, however, remain a lifelong friend of Johnny Cash. Jones was invited to sing at the Grand Ole Opry in 1956.
With Presley's popularity in 1956, pressure was placed on Jones to cut off some rockabilly sides and he reluctantly agreed. However, his heart was never in it, and he quickly regretted the decision; in his autobiography he jokes, "For years, when I found the note, I have used them for Frisbees." He explained to Billboard in 2006: "I'm hopeless When you're hungry, a poor man with a house full of kids, you'll do some things that you usually do not do I say, 'Well , shit, I'll try something once. ' I tried 'Dadgum It How Come It' and 'Rock It', a bunch of junk.I do not want my name on rock and roll stuff, so I told them to put Thumper Jones on it and if it did something, fine, if not , hell, I do not want to be embarrassed by him. "Jones went on to say he failed to try to buy all the masters to keep the pieces off the surface later, which they did.
Jones moved to Mercury in 1957. In early 1957 Jones teamed up with singer Jeannette Hicks, the first of several duet partners he would have for years, and enjoyed another Top Ten single with "Yearning." Starday Records joined Mercury in the same year, and Jones scored high on the charts with the launch of his first Mercury "Do not Stop the Music." Meanwhile, Jones was traveling the black streets of Packard in 1940 with his name and telephone number plastered on the side. Although he garnered a lot of attention and his singles made a very respectable performance on the charts, Jones still played the "blood bucket" circuit of honky-tonks that adorned the countryside.
Commercial breakthrough (1959-1964)
In 1959, Jones had the first number one on the Billboard country chart with "White Lightnin", ironically a more authentic rock and roll sound than his half-hearted rockabilly piece. In Retrospective, Johnny Cash insisted, "George Jones would be a really sexy rockabilly artist if he approached him from that angle." Well, he is, , but never got any credit for that. "" White Lightnin '"written by JP Richardson, better known as Big Bopper. In I Live To Telling It All , Jones confessed that he appeared for recording sessions under the influence of lots of alcohol and brought him about 80 just to record vocals. To make matters worse, Buddy Killen, who plays upright bass on the recording, is reported to have very blistered fingers having to play his bass part 80 times. Killen not only threatened to get out of the session, but also threatened physically harm Jones because of the painful consequences of Jones's drinking. At the final vocal picking used on the tape Jones railed against the word "snail", something that he would emulate live performances of the song along with using his southern accent.
One aspect of Jones's often neglected career was his success as a songwriter; he wrote or co-wrote many of his greatest hits during this period, some of which have become standardized, such as "Window Up Above" (then a great success for Mickey Gilley in 1975) and "Seasons of My Heart" (a hit for Johnny Cash and also recorded by Willie Nelson and Jerry Lee Lewis). Jones wrote "Just One More" (also recorded by Cash), "Life To Go" (top five hit for Stonewall Jackson in 1959), "You Gotta Be My Baby" and "Do not Stop The Music" alone and wrote "Color of the Blues" (covered by Loretta Lynn and Elvis Costello), "Tender Years" and "Tall, Tall Trees" (written with Roger Miller). Jones's most frequent collaborator of songwriters is his childhood friend, Darrell Edwards.
Jones signed a contract with United Artists in 1962 and immediately scored one of the biggest hits of his career, "She Thinks I Still Care". His voice became more pronounced during this period and he began to develop a singing style that became his own. While on duty with UA, Jones recorded a tribute album for Hank Williams and Bob Wills and cut a duet album with Melba Montgomery, including the hit "We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds". Jones is also on his way to earning a reputation as a famous evil hunter. In the Rolling Stone tribute, Merle Haggard recalled:
- "I met him at the Blackboard Cafà ©  © in Bakersfield, California, which was the place heading in '61.He was famous for not appearing or appearing drunk, and he appeared drunk.I was on stage - I thought I was singing Marty Robbins' 'Satan's Woman' - and she kicked open the door of the office and said 'Who is it?' It was one of the greatest compliments of my life when George Jones said I was his favorite country singer... In 1967, I released a ballad song titled "I Threw Away The Rose" and he was so impressed he actually jumped onto the ship and went "Yes. Tour, hire Lear Jet and come to Amarillo, Texas. He told me my low voice changed his life. He also folded my guitarist Fuzzy Owen's steel on the folding bed and rolled him down the street. That's the peak. "
Former Starday Records president Don Pierce told director Mark Hall in 1989, another story about Jones after Pappy Daily freed him from a drunken tank and gave him a show in Houston for $ 2,500. The next day, Jones came to Dailey's office again. According to Pierce, an annoyed Dailey said, "Well, George, you just made $ 2,500, but I talked to some of the guys you were taking the party and they said you went and flushed it down the toilet." "Pappy, that's a lie!" Jones shot back. "Not just $ 1,200." Jones explained to the Weekly Country in his last interview two months before his death, "I started with Coke and it just got the best out of me It would do that for the entertainer if you're not strong I'm in a business that can not avoid people drink. "
On the Jones tour always supported by Jones Boys. Like Buck Owens' Buckaroos and Merle Haggard's Strangers, Jones works with many great talented musicians on their own right, including Dan Schafer, Hank Singer, Brittany Allyn, Sonny Curtis, Kent Goodson, Bobby Birkhead and Steve Hinson. In the 1980s and 1990s, bass player Ron Gaddis served as the leader of the band The Jones Boys and sang harmony with Jones at the concert. Lorrie Morgan (who is married to Gaddis) also toured as a backup singer for Jones in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Johnny Paycheck was a Jones Boys bass player in the 1960s before going to his own fame in the 1970s. Alcoholism_and_decline_.281964.E2.80.931979.29 "> Alcoholism and regression (1964-1979)
In 1964, Pappy Daily got a new contract with the album Musicor. For the rest of the 1960s, Jones will only score one number one (1967's "Walk Through This World With Me") but he has practically owned country music charts throughout the decade. Significant hits include "Love Bug" (nod for Buck Owens and Bakersfield votes), "Things Have Been Stop", "The Race Is On", "My Favorite Lies", "I Will Share My World with You", "Take Me "(the song he wrote together and later will be recorded with Tammy Wynette)," A Good Year for the Roses, "and" If My Heart Had Windows ". At this point, Jones's singing style has evolved from the lonely sounds of Hank Williams and Roy Acuff on his early Starday tape to the more refined and delicate Lefty Frizzell style. In a 2006 interview with Billboard, Jones acknowledged the influence of his Texas colleagues on his idiosyncratic phrase: "I get it from Lefty, he always makes five syllables from a word."
Jones's liquor and the use of amphetamines on the road bumped into him in 1967 and he had to be admitted to a neural hospital to seek treatment for his drinking. Jones will go to the extreme for a drink if thirst is on him. Perhaps the most famous drinking story about Jones occurred when he married his second wife Shirley Corley. Jones remembers Shirley making it physically impossible for her to travel to Beaumont, which is 8 miles away, to buy liquor. Since Jones will not go that far, he will hide the keys to every car they have before leaving. He did not, however, hide the keys to the lawn mower. Upset, Jones walks to the window and looks up his. He then described his thoughts in his memoir: "There, glowing in the light, is a ten-horsepower under-the-seat engine, a glittering key in the ignition key.I imagined the top speed for the old mower was five miles per hour. half an hour or so for me to get to the liquor store, but soon got there. "Years later Jones funnyly mocked the incident by making a cameo in the video for" All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight "by Hank Williams Jr. He also parodied the episode in the 1993 video for "One More Last Chance" by Vince Gill and in his own music video for the single "Honky Tonk Song" in 1996. Surprisingly, in his 1979 autobiography Stand By Your Man , Tammy Wynette claimed the incident happened when she married Jones, keeping it up at one o'clock in the morning to find her husband away: "I got in the car and went to the nearest bar which was 10 miles away.When I stopped in the parking lot, sitting our rider's machine right in front of the entrance.He rode the mower to the main highway... He looked up and saw me and said, 'Well, my friend, here he is.My little wife, I said he will hunt me.' "
Jones became aware of Tammy Wynette because their tour was ordered by the same agency and their paths sometimes crossed after Wynette's first "Apartment # 9" hit in 1966, written by Johnny Paycheck. Wynette was married to songwriter Don Chapel, who was also the opening act for his show at the time. All three became friends but eventually Jones took more of the passing pleasure for Wynette, who was 11 years younger and grew up listening to all his notes. According to his autobiography, Jones went to their house for dinner and while he was preparing food, Wynette and Chapel got into a heated argument with Chapel calling his wife a "bastard." Jones writes: "I felt angry flying all over my body I jumped out of my chair, put my hands under the dining table, and turned it over The plates, equipment, and glasses flew in all directions Don and Tammy's eyes grew big as plates dinner fly. "Jones confessed his love for Wynette on the spot and the couple married in 1969.
They started touring together and Jones bought his contract with Musicor so he could record with Tammy and producer Billy Sherrill on Epic Records (the singer parted ways with old producer Pappy Daily in fierce terms). Jones and Wynette were known as "Mr. & amp; Country Music" in the early 1970s, scored several major hits, including "We Will Hold," "Let's Build a World Together," "Golden Ring", "Near You," and "(We're Not) The Jet Set." When asked about taping Jones and Wynette, Sherill told Dan Daley in 2002, "It did increase my scotch intake, we started trying to record vocals together, but George made Tammy go crazy with his sentences. He never does it the same way twice, he can make five syllables from 'church.' Finally, Tammy said, 'Record George and let me listen to it, and then do my vocals after we get the tape.' Tammy is fast learning. "
In October 1970, shortly after the birth of their only child Tamala Georgette, Jones was thrown into prison and housed in a cell at the Watson Clinic in Lakeland, Florida, after a drunken drunkard; she was kept there to detoxify for 10 days before being released with a prescription for Librium. Jones managed to extend the time of tranquility with Wynette than he had enjoyed over the years but as the decade warmed up and erratic behavior, leading to a couple's divorce in 1976. Jones accepted responsibility for the failure of the marriage but strongly denied Wynette's allegations in his autobiography that he hit him and fired a shotgun at him. Remarkably, Jones and Wynette continued to play shows and attracted many people in the years after their divorce, when fans began to see their songs reflect their storm relationship. In 1980, they recorded the album Together Again and scored a hit with "Two Story House". Jones also spoke openly about his hopes for reconciliation and would jokingly refer to Tammy in some of his songs - during his 1981 hit show "If Drinkin 'Do not Kill Me" he will sing "Tammy's memory will be" - But the charge continued. After years of sniping, Jones and Wynette appeared to reconcile in the 1990s, recorded the last album, One , and even toured together again before Wynette's death in 1998. In 1995 Jones told Country Weekly , "Like the old saying, it takes time to heal things and they've been healed for quite a while."
The Jones couple with Billy Sherrill on Epic Records was a surprise to many; Sherrill and business partner Glenn Sutton were regarded as undefined influences of countrypolitan voices, the delicate incorporation of popular pop and country music during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, away from George's rich tonk roots. Despite a shaky start, Sherrill's success with Jones proved most enduring; although Billboard's chart statistics show that Sherrill has the greatest commercial success with artists such as Wynette and Charlie Rich, with Jones Sherrill having the most lasting association. In Sherrill, Jones discovers what Andrew Meuller of Uncut is portrayed as "a producer who is able to create epic lachrymose settings, his voice deserves and his torture demands... He calls Jones to a symphony of a sighing string that almost makes misery albums like 1974's The Grand Tour and 1976's Alone Again sounded better than the happiness that might be felt. "In 1974, they scored the number one hit with" The Grand Tour " classical instant and followed by "The Door" ( I have heard my beloved mother's voice crying 'and the sound of the train that led me to war ), another hit number one. Unlike most singers, who may be overwhelmed by string arrangements and background vocalists, Sherrill sometimes works on his notes, Jones's voice, with a sometimes frightening intensity and a clear tone, can withstand anything. While Jones wrote fewer songs of his own - the songwriter has stumbled himself to throw a song to him for years - he still manages to write some, such as "What Can Not Do My Woman" (also recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis), "A Drunk Can 't Be A Man ", the terrible" I Just Do not Give a Damn "(probably the biggest" lost classic "throughout Jones's catalog) and" These Days (I Barely Get By) ", which he has written with Wynette.
In the late seventies, Jones spun out of control. Already drinking constantly, a manager named Shug Baggot introduced him to cocaine before the show because he was too tired to perform. The drug will increase the already large enough paranoia Jones. In one drunken party, he fired, and almost hit the target, his friend and sometimes songwriter Earl "Peanutt" Montgomery after Montgomery stopped drinking after finding religion. He often has no money and is recognized in his autobiography that Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash have come to his financial aid all along. Jones also started missing shows at an alarming rate and lawsuits from promoters began to accumulate. In 1978, because Wynette was $ 36,000 in child support and claimed as a million dollars in debt, he filed for bankruptcy. Jones sometimes seemed vague, speaking in disputed voices that he would later call "Duck" and "Old Man". In his article "Demon In George Jones," Nick Tosches stated, "In February 1979 he became homeless, mad and poor, living in his car and barely able to digest the junk food he lived in. He weighed under a hundred pounds, and his condition so bad that it took more than two years to complete My Very Special Guests, an album in which Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, Elvis Costello, and other famous fans came to his home support and support vocals. entered Hillcrest Mental Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.After being released in January 1980, the first thing he did was take a six-pack. "
Jones often shows a humiliating and self-deprecating sense of humor about his monstrous financial reputation and bad reputation. In June 1979, he appeared with Waylon Jennings on Ralph Emery's syndicated radio program and at one point Jennings broke, "Very lonely at the top." A laughing one replied, "It's also quiet at the bottom! It's real, lonely, Waylon." Though not chronically reliable, Jones is still capable of performing live performances that captivate. On Independence Day, 1976, he appeared in Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic in Gonzales, Texas in front of 80,000 young, country-oriented fans. A nervous Jones felt out of his comfort zone and almost darted off the festival but just kept going and finally stole the show. The Houston Post wrote, "He is the undisputed star of this year's Willie Nelson picnic... one of the greatest." Penthouse called him "the spirit of country music, simple and simple, his Holy Spirit". The Village Voice added "As a singer, he's as smart as they come, and should be considered as a place in the top ten of America." Jones started losing more events than he did, however, including several dates published at the Bottom Line club in New York City. Former CBS Records vice president Rick Blackburn recalled in the 1989 video Same Ole Me that the show has been hypnotized for weeks, with many of the top press and actors of Saturday Night Live Comeback (1980-1990)
In 1980, Jones had no number one in six years and many critics began writing it. However, the singer surprised the music industry in April when "He Stopped Loving Her Today" was released and shot to number one on the country charts, remaining there for 18 weeks. The song was written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman and tells the story of a friend who never gave up on his love; he keeps old letters and photographs of the past and hopes he will "come back again". The song reached its peak in the choir, revealing that he really stopped loving him - when he died - and the woman returned - for his funeral. Jones's interpretation, supported by the delivery of the line "the first time I saw him smile for years", gave him a tense and gripping realism. It was consistently chosen as the greatest country song of all time, along with "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" by Hank Williams and "Crazy" by Patsy Cline.
According to producer Billy Sherrill and Jones himself, the singer hated the song when he first heard it. In Bob Allen's biography, Sherrill states, "He thinks it's too long, too sad, too sad and no one will play it... He hates the melody and will not learn it." Sherrill also claims that Jones frustrated him by continuing to sing the song to the melody of Krisdayanti hit "Help Me Make It Through the Night". In Retrospective Same Ole Me , Sherrill reminded the heat exchange during a recording session: "I said 'It's not a melody!' and he said 'Yes, but that's a better melody.' I said 'Maybe - Kristofferson will think so too, that's the melody!' "In the same documentary, Sherrill claims that Jones was in poor physical condition during this period that" the reading was recorded 18 months after the first verse is "and added that the last words that Jones said about" He Stop Loving Today " is "No one will buy that rebellious child". Although he disliked "He Stopped Loving Her Today" when first offered to him, Jones finally gave him a credit song to revive his flagging career, stating that "a four-decade career has been saved by a three-minute song". Jones earned a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1980. The State Music Academy was awarded the song Single of the Year and Song of the Year in 1980. It also became the Country Music Song of the Country of the Year in 1980 and 1981.
The success of "He Stopped Loving Her Today" made CBS Records renew Jones's recording contract and sparked renewed interest in the singer. She is the subject of a one hour and one-quarter-hour special HBO television entitled George Jones: With a Little Help from Her Friends, who saw her performing songs with Waylon Jennings, Elvis Costello, Tanya Tucker and Tammy Wynette, between other. Jones continued drinking and using cocaine, performing at various awards to receive the award for "He Stopped Loving Her Today" practically drunk, as when he performed "I Was Country When Country Was Not Cool" with Barbara Mandrell in the 1981 Country Music Association Appreciation. He was involved in several high speed car hunts with police, reported on national news, and one capture filmed by a local TV crew; video, widely available online, offers a glimpse into Jones's alter ego when drinking, as he argues with police officers and lunges on camera men. Conversely, when conscious, Jones is known to be friendly and down to earth, even shy. In a 1994 article about Jones, Nick Tosches said that when he first interviewed the singer in April 1976, "One can easily trust reports by those who have known him for years: that he has not changed much at all and that he has endured fame and fortune. "In an unusual self-assessment in 1981, the singer told Mark Rose of The Village Voice," I do not show much affection. "I may have been a person which is very unpopular among the family, like a heartless person I keep everything for songs I do not know you should show that person to that person I think I always want to but I do not know how to do it The only way I could have to do it in a song. "Years later he commented to The Christian Broadcasting Network, Scott Ross, about himself, "I think you're angry with yourself, I think you're telling yourself" You do not deserve this. You do not deserve to be that fan. You do not deserve this money. ' And you are angry with yourself. And you hit yourself with drinking and losing friends who will not stand it... It's just one big mess you make of your life. "In 1982, Jones recorded Merly Haggard's A Merve Haggard's A Taste of Yesterday's Wine, while Jones, on the back of his condition, looked less heavily on the cover of the album, his singing perfect.The run of hits also continued at the beginning 1980s, with singers mapping "I'm Not Ready", "Same Ole Me" (powered by Oak Ridge Boys) "," Still Doin 'Time "," Tennessee Whiskey "," We Did not See a Thing " duet with Ray Charles), and "I Always Get Lucky with You", which was Jones's number one in 1984.
In 1981, Jones met Nancy Sepulvado, a 34-year-old divorced from Mansfield, Louisiana. Sepulvado's positive influence on Jones' life and career can not be overstated; he finally cleaned up his finances, kept him away from drug dealers (who reportedly kidnapped his daughter in retaliation), and arranged for his career. Jones always gave him complete credit to save his life. Nancy, who did not drink, explained to Nick Tosches in 1994, "He's drinking but he's happy to be around, it's not love at first sight or anything, but I see how good he is, down and I can not help caring for him. "Jones managed to quit cocaine but then went on a drunken rampage in Alabama in the fall of 1983 and was once again attacked and committed to Hillcrest Mental Hospital suffering from malnutrition and delusions. But at that moment, physically and emotionally exhausted, he really wanted to stop drinking. In March 1984 in Birmingham, Alabama - at the age of 52 - Jones performed his first drunken show since the early seventies. "All my life I seem to have run away from something," he told United Press International in June. "If I knew what it was, maybe I could run in the right direction, but I always seem to end up in another way." Jones began to make many dates that he had missed, played for free to pay for promoters, and began opening his concert with "No Show Jones", a song he wrote with Glen Martin who made fun of him and other country singers.. Jones has always stressed that he is not proud of the way he treated loved ones and friends over the years and was embarrassed to disappoint his fans when he missed the show, telling Billboard in 2006 that "I know it hurt me, fans in a way and I'm always sad about it, it really bothered me for a long time. "
Much quietly during the rest of the 1980s, Jones consistently released albums by producing Sherrill, including Shine On , Jones Country , You Still Have a Place In Me Heart , Who Will Fill Their Shoes , Wine Colored Roses (Jones's album will tell Jolene Downs in 2001 is one of his personal favorites), Too Wild Too Long and One Woman Man . Jones' video for his 1985 hit "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" won the CMA award for Video of the Year (Billy Sherrill made a cameo as a bus driver).
The years later and death (1990-2013)
In 1990, Jones released his last studio album right on Epic, You Oughta Be Here With Me . Although the album featured several vibrant performances, including the main single "Hell Stays Open All Night Long" and title track Roger Miller-writing, the singles were not good and Jones turned to the MCA, ending his relationship with Sherrill and what is now Sony Music after 19 years. His first album with MCA, And Along Came Jones , was released in 1991 and, backed by MCA's powerful promotion and producer team, Kyle Lehning (who has produced a series of hit albums for Randy Travis), the album sold better from the previous one. However, two singles, "You Could not Get The Picture" and "She Loved A Lot In Her Time", did not break the top 30 on the charts because Jones lost support with state radio. because the format changed radically during the early 1990s. His last album had a significant radio broadcast in 1992 Walls Can Fall, featuring the novelty song "Finally Friday" and "I Do not Need Your Rockin 'Chair," a testament to his persistent persistence in old age. Although there was no radio broadcasting, Jones continued to record and tour throughout the 1990s and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame by Randy Travis in 1992. In 1996, Jones released his autobiography I Live To Tell It All
While Jones remains committed to "pure country", he works with top producer and musician of the day and the quality of his work remains high. Some significant performances include "I Have to Do Something Bad", "Wild Irish Rose", "Billy B. Bad" (a sarcastic sarcastic in the trendset country music establishment), "A Thousand Times A Day", "When The Last Curtain Falls "and the novelty of" High-Tech Redneck ". Jones' most popular song of his last years was "Choices", the first single from his 1999 Cold Hard Truth studio album . A video was also made for the song and Jones won another Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. The song became the center of controversy when the State Music Association invited Jones to perform at the awards show, but required him to do a shortened version. Jones refused and did not attend the show. Alan Jackson was disappointed with the association's decision and half of his own performances during the show he showed on his band and played part of Jones's song in protest.
On March 6, 1999, Jones was involved in an accident when he rammed his sporting vehicle near his home. He was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), where he was released two weeks later. In May of that year, Jones pleaded guilty to charges of drunk driving related to the accident. (In a memoir published three years earlier, Jones admitted that sometimes he drank a glass of wine before dinner and that he still drank beer occasionally but insisted, "I'm not wriggling in my chair, fighting the urge to drink again" and speculating, " maybe I'm not a true alcoholic in the sense of a modern word, maybe I'm always drunk in the old fashion. ") The accident was a significant turning point, as he explained to Billboard in 2006:" when I had the accident I decided it put God's fear in me No smoking, no more drinking I did not have to help, I decided to quit I did not want it. "After the accident, Jones went on to release The Gospel Collection in 2003, which Billy Sherrill came out of retirement to produce. He appeared at the Johnny Cash Memorial concert in Jonesboro, Arkansas in 2003, singing "Big River" with Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. In 2008, Jones received the Kennedy Center Honor along with Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey from The Who, Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman and Twyla Tharp. President George W. Bush revealed that he has many Jones songs on his iPod. Jones also served as a judge in 2008 for the 8th Annual Independent Music Awards to support the career of independent artists. and Rolling Stone named it number 43 in 100 Biggest Singer Issues of All Time. An album titled Hits I Missed And One I Does not , where he covered the hits he has delivered and remakes from his own "He Stopped Loving Her Today", will be released as his latest studio album. In 2012, Jones received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement award.
On March 29, 2012, Jones was taken to the hospital with an upper respiratory tract infection. Months later, on May 21, Jones was hospitalized again for his infection and released five days later. On August 14, 2012, Jones announced his farewell tour, the Grand Tour, with stops scheduled in 60 cities. His last concert was held in Knoxville at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum on April 6, 2013.
Jones is scheduled to perform his last concert at Bridgestone Arena on November 22, 2013. However, on April 18, 2013, Jones was taken to VUMC due to a mild fever and irregular blood pressure. The concerts in Alabama and Salem were postponed as a result. After six days of intensive care at VUMC, Jones died on April 26, 2013; he is 81 years old. Former Laura Bush's first woman was among those who praised Jones at her funeral on May 2, 2013. Other speakers were Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Bob Schieffer, and country singers Barbara Mandrell and Kenny Chesney. Alan Jackson, Kid Rock, Ronnie Milsap, Randy Travis, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Travis Tritt, Oak Ridge Boys, Charlie Daniels, Wynonna and Brad Paisley respected the music. The service is broadcast live on CMT, GAC, RFD-TV, The Nashville Network and FamilyNet as well as Nashville stations. SiriusXM and WSM 650AM, home of Grand Ole Opry, broadcast the event on the radio. The family requests that donations be given to the Grand Ole Opry Trust Fund or to the Hall of Fame and the State Music Museum.
Jones is buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Nashville. His death made headlines around the world; many state stations (as well as some other formats, such as oldies/classic hits) leave or modify their playlists and play their songs throughout the day. A week after Jones's death, "He Stopped Loving Her Today" went back into hot country songs at number 21.
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Legacy
Jones tirelessly defended the integrity of country music, saying "Billboard" in 2006, "It's not for love money, I thank God because it makes me live, but I sing because I like it, not because of the dollar sign. "Jones also went out of his way to promote the younger country singer who he feels as passionate about music as he is. "Everyone knows he's a great singer," Alan Jackson said in 1995, "but what I like best about George is when you meet him, he's like an old man working at a gas station... even if he's a legend!"
Shortly after Jones's death, Andrew Mueller wrote of his influence on Uncut, "He is one of the best interpretative singers ever to lift a microphone... There can be no one country songwriter from the last 50. -two years who have not wondered what it was like to hear their words sung by the voice. "In an article for The Texas Monthly in 1994, Nick Tosches eloquently described the singer's vocal style:" While he and his idol , Hank Williams, has an affected generation with honesty of sounds that make them Moreover, Jones has an extra prize - incredible range sounds, natural elegance, and lucent tones.Gride towards a high tenor, plunge into deep bass, portamento magisterial his ongoing baritone emits white-hot sprays and blue torrents, invests his poisonous love songs with tragic gravity and inflames the celebrations aannya about ethos honk-tonk with the fire of hell left. "In Essay of the New Republic essay" Why George Jones Ranking with Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday, "writes David Hajdu:
David Cantwell recalled in 2013, "His approach to singing, he told me once, is to summon his own memories and feelings that are most closely related to the feeling felt by the character in whatever song he does He is a kind of actor of singing methods, creating a real illusion. "In a liner notes to Important George Jones: The Spirit of the Country Kienzle Rich states," Jones sings people and stories that are very human, he can turn ballads into catharsis with squeezing every possible emotion out of it, making it a primal scream, strangled by sadness ". In 1994, country music historian Colin Escott said, "Contemporary country music is virtually erected on the basis of homage to George Jones, walking through the country singing room and doing a quick poll, George is almost always on it." After Jones's death, Merle Haggard said in Rolling Stone, "It sounds like a Stradivarius violin: one of the greatest instruments ever made." Emmylou Harris writes, "when you hear George Jones sing, you hear a man picking up a song and making it a work of art - always," the quote that appeared on the 1976 Jones Jones' s arm of The Battle. In the documentary film Same Ole Me, some country music stars offer similar thoughts. Johnny Cash: "When people ask me who's my favorite country singer, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?'"; Randy Travis: "It seems he lives every minute of every word he sings and there are very few people who can do that"; Tom T. Hall: "It's always Jones who delivered the right message"; and Roy Acuff: "I would give anything if I could sing like George Jones". In the same film, producer Billy Sherrill stated, "All I did was change the instrumentation around him I do not think he changed at all."
Influence beyond country music
Unlike some of his contemporaries, Jones stuck with country music with all his heart. Jones never reached the top 40 of Billboard Hot 100 and almost never played his music in mainstream mainstream music stations of his career. Ironically, without even attempting, Jones's relentless loyalty to the strict state setting attracts the admiration of musicians and songwriters of various genres. In a frequently quoted tribute, Frank Sinatra calls Jones "the second best singer in America". In a Rolling Stone interview in 1969, Bob Dylan was asked what he thought was the best song released in the previous year and he replied, "George Jones has one called 'Small Town Laboring Man'," and in his autobiography Chronicles, Dylan states that in the early 1960s he was very unimpressed with what he heard on the radio and admitted "Outside George Jones maybe I do not listen to country music either." Rock country pioneer Gram Parsons is a big fan of George Jones and covers Jones's song "That's All It Took" on his first solo album. In the documentary film Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel , Pamela des Barres remembers seeing Parsons singing Jones's "She Once Lived Here" song on an empty Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles: "This is my peak, > peak for a moment, do not sit on Jimmy amps... that's my peak time. "Parsons revived Keith Richards's interest in country music in the early seventies and after Jones's death in 2013 the guitarist wrote," He has a voice the most touching, the most expressive way to project a beautiful instrument from anyone I can call in mind.You hear his heart in every tune he sings. "Richards noted" Say It Not You "with Jones for The Bradley Barn Sessions in 1994 and recalled in his autobiography he heard him sing for the first time when the Rolling Stones and Jones were at the same event in Texas in 1964: "They trailed by tumbleweed following the brand a, as if tumbleweed is their pet. Dust everywhere, a bunch of cowboys. But when George wakes up, we go whoa, there's a master over there. "In Mick Jagger's" The History of Rock 'N' Roll "documentary, Mick Jagger also quotes Jones as one of his favorite country singers John Prine mentions Jones in his song "Jesus the Missing Years." Jones's fan Elvis Costello got a big surprise in England when he covered "A Good Year for Rose" in 1981. Elliott Smith told the interviewer his idea of ​​Heaven: "George Jones will sing along time. It will be like New York instead: people will be nice to each other for no reason at all, and it will smell nice. "In a 2001 interview with Mark Binelli of Rolling Stone, Leonard Cohen asked," Have you heard of George Jones' last note of Cold Hard Truth ? I love to hear an old man lying. out of the situation. He has the best voice in America, "and on the day Jones died, Cohen did the" Choice "on stage in Winnipeg, Canada as a tribute to the country legend.In 2013, Robbie Robertson told Uncut ," is Ray Charles from country music - someone who can make you cry with his voice... We will not listen to country music, people in Band, but we will listen to George Jones... "Robert Plant told Uncut ' Michael Bonner in 2014, "I now have to listen to George Jones once a day. Great singers. What a singer. "James Taylor, who wrote" Bartender's Blues "with Jones in mind and sang background vocals with him on the recording, told Rolling Stone," He sounds like a steel guitar. It's the way he combines notes, the way he comes to them, the way he crescendos and decresinetos. The dynamics are very tight and very controlled - it's like carving with a voice. "Other different artists recorded with Jones include Dennis Locorriere and Ray Sawyer of Dr Hook, Mark Knopfler, Staples Singers, Leon Russell, BB King, Blackberry Smoke and Linda Ronstadt.In 1995, Burt Reynolds wrote," She is country music , Spencer Tracy is for the movie. "
Duets
Jones was one of the greatest harmony singers in country music and released many duets during his long career. While his songs with Tammy Wynette are the most famous, Jones claims in his autobiography that he feels his duet with Melba Montgomery is the best. Jones also recorded a duet album with Gene Pitney and former bass player Johnny Paycheck. George's Record with Paycheck, 1980's
In addition to many of Jones's recordings made with Tammy Wynette, some of his famous duets include:
Discography and career
Career summary
George Jones's career began in 1954, and for six decades as a professional singer-songwriter, he was one of the most financially successful country music artists. Jones recorded over 900 songs, and charted more than any other musical artist, almost exclusively on the country charts; Jones never charted a hit in the top 40 of the common Billboard Hot 100 or equivalent all-genre chart. As a solo artist, Jones only had three hits making Billboard Hot 100, the tallest of which, "White Lightning", reached number 73. The duet with Gene Pitney also made 99 for a week. On the country charts, Jones (either solo or as part of a duet) puts nearly 150 songs on the charts, including thirteen hit number 1 countries.
His first blow came in 1955, with "Why Baby Why". During his early years in the 1950s, Jones had several hits such as 1956's "You Gotta Be My Baby" and "Just One More", "Color of the Blues" in 1958, and hit number 1 in 1959. "White Lightning "(highest Jones) -making pop hit, reaching # 73). He had marginal success during his start with Starday Records. He saw more with Mercury Records after switching in mid-1957. In 1960, Jones began the transition to the new Polished Nashville Sound. With 'Accidentally On Purpose', 'Family Bible', and # 1 Hit 'Window Up Above', he made the transition, and succeeded. His voice grew more and more and by 1962 his voice really belonged to him, and he scored two more songs # 1 ("Tender Year" 1961 and "She Thinks I Still Care" 1962). After turning to United Artists in 1962, Jones had great success; However, after "He Think I Still Care," he will not find another number 1 through 1967.
By the mid-1960s, Jones had developed the habit of appearing drunk on stage, and was already known as a troublemaker. He had been married twice, once to Dorothy Bonvillion in 1950; however, both filed for divorce in 1951. His first daughter, Susan Smith, was born on October 29, 1951. He married again in 1954 with Shirley Ann Corley. On October 9, 1955, his first son, Jeffrey Glenn Jones, was born and on July 16, 1958, his second son, Brian Daily Jones, was born. However, through extensive tours and recording sessions, Jones's dependence on alcohol and pills pushed his second wife away, and they divorced in 1968.
In 1969, he started his relationship with country singer Tammy Wynette. This will greatly affect his career in the 1970s. After switching to Musicor in 1965, he had hit number 1 on "Walk Through This World with Me" in 1967. He began recording with Billy Sherrill in 1970, and Sherrill tried to keep Jones to record a louder track to countrypolitan and not as hard. In 1970, his first hit with Sherrill was "Good Year for the Roses" in 1970 which reached number 2 years. In 1971, he began recording with Tammy Wynette (whom he married in 1970). Their song in 1973, "We Gonna Hold On" went up to number 1 and two songs in 1976 reached number 1 ("Golden Ring" and "Near You"). After turning to Epic Records, Jones began recording some of his fans' favorite songs: 1972's "A Picture of Me (Without You)", 1973's "What My Woman Can not Do", hit number 1 1974 "The Grand Tour" and "The Door ", 1976's" Her Name Is ", and 1978's" Bartender's Blues ".
Jones's health began to deteriorate. His dependence on drugs and alcohol lowered him to a 170-pound shell. He started hallucinating and missing shows and tours, which later gave him the title 'No Show Jones'. He started singing horribly and filed for bankruptcy in 1979. He never got hit number 1 in 6 years in 1980. However, his image was completely revitalized in 1980, when he released a song widely regarded as the country's biggest song. all the time, "He Stops Loving Today". This song gave him many awards including a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. He gave the song a credit for then saying "four decade careers have been saved by a three-minute song."
After the 1980 hit, Jones recorded state standards in the 80s, and returned to health. He married his fourth wife, Nancy Sepulvado, in 1983. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1992, despite leading a country radio boycott, an expression of his dislike of popular country music at the time. He suffered one last major blow in 1999 with "Choice", after an almost fatal car accident. The song gave him another Grammy award. Jones released his last album in 2005, and retired from the recording. He continues to perform. In April 2013, he died at the age of 81, ending a career of 61 years.
Hit country number one
- "White Lightning" (1959)
- "Tender Years" (1961)
- "He Think I Still Care" (1962)
- "Walk Through This World with Me" (1967)
- "We Will Be Held" (with Tammy Wynette) (1973)
- "The Grand Tour" (1974)
- "The Door" (1975)
- "Golden Ring" (with Tammy Wynette) (1976)
- "Near You" (with Tammy Wynette) (1977)
- "He's Stop Loving Today" (1980)
- "Still Doin 'Time" (1981)
- "Yesterday's Wine" (with Merle Haggard) (1982)
- "I'm Always Lucky with You" (1983)
See also
- Country Music Academy
- List of country musicians
- Country Music Association
- List of top selling music artists
- Stranger from the Country Music Hall of Fame (1992 inductee)
References
Further reading
- Stay to Tell All, , George Jones with Tom Carter, Dell Publishing, 1997, ISBNÃ, 0-440-22373-3.
- In The Country of Country: Journey to American Musical Roots,
- Country Music USA
- Top Country Songs Joel Whitburn, 1944 to 2005 , Research Record, Menomonee Falls, WI, 2005, ISBNÃ, 0-89820-165-9.
External links
- Official website
- George Jones at EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica
- Bandit records (record label)
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