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George Jones with Love "Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong" — 13: 31 The Best of George Jones "A Good Year for the Roses" 12: 2: 4 George Jones with Love "Sometimes You Just Can't Win" 1971 — 10: 7 First in the Hearts of Country Music Lovers "Right Won't Touch a Hand" — 7: 10 "I'll Follow You (Up to Our Cloud)" — 13 — George Jones with ...
I Turn to You (George Jones song) I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool; I Won't Need You Anymore (Always and Forever) I'll Follow You (Up to Our Cloud) I'll Just Take It Out in Love; I'll Share My World with You (song) I'm a One-Woman Man; I'm a People (song) I'm a Survivor (George Jones song) I'm Not Ready Yet; I'm With the Wrong One
In his essay for the liner notes to the 1994 Sony compilation The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country, Rich Kienzle states, "If there were any doubters, 'Wine Colored Roses' proved Jones was a timeless superstar, even without stimulants." In a 2001 interview with Jolene Downs, the singer cited the album as one of his all-time ...
The Jones-penned "Don't Stop The Music" had been a minor hit for the singer in early 1957 while "Life To Go", also written by Jones, was a top five smash for Stonewall Jackson in 1959. Blue & Lonesome also includes the original recording of "Color of the Blues", a song Jones wrote with Lawton Williams that would go on to be recorded by Red ...
Encore is a compilation album by George Jones released on the Epic Records label in 1981.. As a compilation, the album is overshadowed by Anniversary - 10 Years of Hits, which was released the following year, but Encore is significant because it features the obscure Jones cut "We Oughta Be Ashamed" (a 1979 b-side of "Someday My Day Will Come"), which he composed with Earl Montgomery.
George Jones recorded more albums than just about any other country singer, but he never made one like this. This is the sound of music played by people who lived their lives serving the true spirit, and sung by a man who walked this world only once."
Although Jones and Wynette had divorced in 1975, they remained a valuable commercial commodity for Epic, scoring their biggest chart hits after their split. The album peaked at number 23 on the Billboard country albums chart and eventually went Gold in the U.S. [ citation needed ]
The album provides an opportunity to hear how an older Jones and producer Billy Sherrill reinterpret the material. Sherrill remains faithful to the original arrangements, although the songs certainly have a smoother sound than some of the original versions. [citation needed] The album peaked at number 31 on the Billboard country albums chart.