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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Country music star George Jones died today at Vanderbilt MC in Nashville. He was 81 years old. Love him or not, he was a Legend and a country music superstar. His early duets w/ the late Tammy Wynette were established the couple some of Nashville's first royalty. R.I. P. George!
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | I had a great friend who was a slow talking backwoods country boy from Kaintuck who was raised drinking shine. It seemed he had every GJ album ever produced. Some of the very old ones were full of the epitome of crying in your beer "she done me wrong" songs. More than once I dropped in on Big Jim to find him soused to the max with all his George lp's out and crying his eyes out to the sad songs. He was very much a crying drunk and ol' George brought out the worst of it in him. Kinda funny, my 30 year old son's two favorite country songs of all times are Hotter Than a Two Dollar Pistol and He stopped Loving Her Today. I guess being born in Texas just naturally instilled love of that music in him. My favorite George moment was on an awards show where he commented about Tammy Wynette's new husband as being HIS new "husband in law". He totally cracked Larry Gatlin up with the remark. We're fast losin' that generation of country talent and none of the crop today will ever fill their shoes. Country music is as manufactured a sound today as boy bands were with corporate created "artists" to fill the airways with tripe I'll never refer to as country music. |
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Location: Denver, CO | One of my all-time top five! Tremendous entertainer, great, great songwriter, as well as gentle, generous, and humble. See you again someday, George. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Great voice is gone.... |
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Location: sitting at my computer | RIP George WhsssssshOoooh... White Lightning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZhRxorNOFs&NR=1&feature=endscreen http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/arts/music/george-jones-country-singer-dies-at-81.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |
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Location: Northwest Arkansas | +1 Dave Kell. George is the beginning of an end to "real" country. I'm gonna miss ol' Possum George. If you grew up in the Ozark Mtns. in Arkansas, George was a big part of your musical life. I learned a bunch of his tunes, but could never sing like him. James Taylor expressed his remorse quickly. Ol' George covered "Bartender Blues" and you could tell James had written it for him. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" will always be hailed as the #1 country song of all time. I wholeheartedly agree. See you again someday Possum!
Edited by AdamasW597 2013-04-27 8:53 AM
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George Jones dead at 81
