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"Where Grass Won't Grow" is a song by American country music singer George Jones. It was written by Earl "Peanut" Montgomery, one of Jones' favorite songwriters, and tells the story of the hardships faced by a family living on a twelve-acre farm in south Tennessee .
"I Turn to You" is a song written by Max D. Barnes and Curly Putman, and recorded by American country music singer George Jones. It was released in May 1987 as the third single from the album Wine Colored Roses .
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
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The above-mentioned "similarities" are revealed in the song's chorus: "hotter than a two-dollar pistol," "the fastest thing around," "long and lean," "every young man's dream," "turned every head in town," "built and fun to handle." The song was a fixture in Jones' live set in the 1980s and 1990s and appears on the 1999 LP Live with the Possum.
[2] Richard Carlin, in the book Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary, called it "a good-natured but defiant statement of where this old fella's comin' from." [ 3 ] Brian Mansfield , in his review of Walls Can Fall , called the song "scarier because of George's past", [ 4 ] while Jones himself described the song as "my attitude set to music."
Most of the tracks are previous hits, and nearly all the songs listed were written by different songwriters: "We Can Make It" was written by the album's producer Billy Sherrill alongside Glenn Sutton. The song is the best efforts by Jones of his early years with Epic. It was released in February 1972 and peaked at #6 on the US Country chart.
The album includes his first ever "duet video" with Dolly Parton on the Hank Williams, Jr. penned "The Blues Man"; the song chronicles the life of a singer not unlike Jones himself. The one hit he did not miss, of course, is "He Stopped Loving Her Today", which went to number one in 1980.