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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 ...
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.
That group released an album, The Reynolds Brothers, featuring songs written by James and fellow Edsels member George Jones. Songwriter George Jones died of cancer on September 5, 2008, at age 71. [3] [4] Marshall Sewell died of esophageal cancer on June 5, 2013, at the age of 75. [3] [5] Emmett T. Perkins II died on February 11, 2014, at the ...
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 ...
The albums discography of American country artist, George Jones contains 80 studio albums, 132 compilation albums, three live albums, ten video albums and seven box sets.Of his studio albums, 69 are solo releases while 11 are collaborative releases (not counting his music with Tammy Wynette).
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 ...
In the liner notes to the 1983 Jones compilation Anniversary - 10 Years of Hits, producer Billy Sherrill writes that he was surprised that the song "Memories of Us", a personal favorite, failed as a single, and in his 1996 autobiography I Lived to Tell It All, Jones admitted that at the time he "constantly feared that my career, like my three ...
Despite the occasional weak song, Jones gives it his all throughout the record, which by and large keeps the album entertaining." [ 1 ] Writing about the title track in The New Yorker , Ian Crouch asserted, "His rendering of the chorus, with its 'four walls around me to hold my life,' may be the best expression of his incredible vocal gifts ...