George Jones
About George Jones
George Jones is the greatest of country singers but he has also been a victim of the infamous hard-living honky-tonk lifestyle. Though he's gone through several phases, from rockabilly to honky-tonk to countrypolitan, his melismatic, Lefty Frizell-influenced style has remained at the core of his unique sound. His stormy marriage to Tammy Wynette (1969-75) included duet albums of love songs and bitter recriminations. By the late '70s, his drinking and cocaine addiction had made him so unreliable that he was known as "No Show Jones." In 1979 he received medical treatment and staged a significant comeback with I AM WHAT I AM, which included his greatest single, "He Stopped Loving Her Today."
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contemporaries
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- 12 Downloads Merle Haggard
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- 2 Downloads Johnny Paycheck
influences
- 2 Downloads Ernest Tubb
- 4 Downloads Bob Wills
- 1 Download Chet Atkins
- 14 Downloads Hank Williams
followers
- 11 Downloads Randy Travis
- 4 Downloads David Allan Coe
- 11 Downloads Lyle Lovett
- 14 Downloads Dwight Yoakam
