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- George Jones (born September 12, 1931, Saratoga, Texas, U.S.—died April 26, 2013, Nashville, Tennessee) was an American honky-tonk performer and balladeer considered to be one of the greatest country singers of all time.
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In his biography George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, Bob Allen recounts how George Washington Jones would return home drunk in the middle of the night with his cronies, wake up his terrified son and demand that he sing for them or face a beating.
- Had First Country Hits
- Plagued by Personal Problems
- Kept Recording Despite Crash Trauma
- Selected Discography
- Sources
Jones spent 1950-53 in the United States Marine Corps and then returned to Texas to work as a house painter. Within months he was moonlighting as a radio performer, imitating his heroes Hank Williams, Roy Acuff, and Lefty Frizzell. Gradually his reputation spread, and he became acquainted with H. W. “Pappy” Daily, a producer for the Houston-based S...
The late 1970s proved a nadir for Jones. He had to declare bankruptcy after a number of show promoters sued him for missed dates. Alcohol abuse led to automobile accidents, fights with lovers, and one instance where he fired a gun at a male friend. By 1983 he had been hospitalized and arrested repeatedly for alcohol and cocaine use and sued by a le...
On March 6, 1999, just prior to Jones’s recording of The Cold Hard Truth, he was involved in a near-fatal car accident near Nashville. Jones drove his car into a bridge and suffered multiple internal injuries as a result of the crash. Jones pled guilty to driving while impaired, was fined $500, and was required to enter an alcohol treatment program...
George Jones Sings,Mercury, 1960. Country Church Time,Mercury, 1960. Country and Western Hits,Mercury, 1961. Crown Prince of Country,Starday, 1961. Greatest Hits of George Jones,Mercury, 1961. George Jones’ Greatest Hits,Starday, 1962. George Jones Sings from the Heart,Mercury, 1962. The Fabulous Country Music Sound of George Jones,Starday, 1962. B...
Books
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music,Harmony, 1977. Malone, Bill C., Country Music U.S.A.,revised edition, University of Texas Press, 1985. Malone, Bill C. and Judith McCulloh, Stars of Country Music,University of Illinois Press, 1975. Nash, Alanna, Behind Closed Doors: Talking with the Leg ends of Country Music,Knopf, 1988. Shestack, Melvin, The Country Music Encyclopedia,Crowell, 1974. Stambler, Irwin and Grelun Landon, The Encyclopedia of Folk, Country, and Western Music, St. Martin’s...
Periodicals
Entertainment Weekly,June 30, 1995. High Fidelity,May 1977. People,January 15, 1979; May 31, 1999. Stereo Review,September 1983.
Online
All Music Guide,http://www.allmusic.com (March 27, 2002). BNA Records, http://www.bna.com(March 27, 2002). Contemporary Authors Online, Biography Resource Center, http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC(March 27, 2002). Country Music Association Awards, http://www.cmaawards.com(February 4, 2002). George Jones Official Website, http://www.georgejones.com(March 27, 2002). —Anne Janette Johnson
Oct 6, 2009 · Music video by George Jones performing Honky Tonk Song. (C) 1996 MCA Nashville
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The hits continued, though his style had begun to mellow and season somewhat from the jittery honky-tonk of “Why, Baby, Why” and the handful of rockabilly sides Jones reluctantly cut in 1956 under the pseudonym Thumper Jones.
Feb 1, 2014 · After beginning to record in the mid-1950s Jones became, by sheer dint of his vocal prowess, one of Nashville's most celebrated honky-tonk singers. But from the start, Jones's life, as often reflected in his music, was shaped by misdirection, chaos, turmoil, and emotional strife aggravated by a ferocious appetite for alcohol.
- Bob Allen
Apr 26, 2013 · He was a honky-tonk pioneer with hits such as "Why Baby Why" and "White Lightning," but his wild and pugnacious streak didn't render him too rigid to change with the times.
