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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 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.
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.
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).
"Come Sundown" (a Bobby Bare cover written by Kris Kristofferson) is just a reissue of the exact song Jones had released on his 1974 album, I Can Love You Enough. The title track, which peaked at number 3 (Jones's ninth top ten hit in four years), is a cover of a 1950 Leon Payne recording that has been covered by multiple artists. Many of the ...
If My Heart Had Windows features two of the more bizarre songs in the Jones cannon: "Unwanted Babies" and "Poor Chinee". The former, a protest song written for Jones by Earl "Peanut" Montgomery, appears to be Jones's half-hearted attempt to appear more socially conscious in the turbulent Vietnam War and Civil Rights era.
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 ...