George Jones
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Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 11 May 1962
Troupe of Country Musicians Gives Program at Carnegie Hall ...
Live Review by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 10 March 1969
THE LAST two weeks have been good ones for country music in Atlanta. George Jones and Tammy Wynette were at the Playroom; Merle Haggard's latest ...
Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette and George Jones: Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta GA
Live Review by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 31 February 1972
GOOD COUNTRY ...
Shower of Stars: George Jones & Tammy Wynette
Profile by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 5 March 1973
ONCE AGAIN it's Shower of Stars time. A good chance to see some of country music's finest in person at pretty reasonable prices. ...
Tammy Wynette and George Jones: Philharmonic Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 27 March 1973
Wynette and Jones Present, in Songs, Flavor of Nashville ...
George Jones: The Grand Tour (Epic KE-33083 5.98 KE EA -33083 6.98)
Review by Nick Tosches, Country Music, February 1974
FOR SOME unknown reason, George Jones' last album, Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You), went in one ear and came out ...
Live Review by Colin Irwin, Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 5 April 1975
Yee-hah for the cowboys! Colin Irwin and Robert Partridge review Wembley's giant country festival ...
George Jones and Wanda Jackson at Hammersmith Odeon
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 27 September 1975
THE FOYER OF the Hammersmith Odeon was like Middle America gone London town, except the folks were mostly British and there wasn't a stetson to ...
George Jones, Wanda Jackson: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 27 September 1975
GEORGE JONES is one of the major stars of American country music but, without the help of a chart single to attract the MOR audience, ...
George Jones, August 1976, at Sunset Park, West Grove, PA
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, August 1976
NOTE: Originally broadcast on the country/bluegrass show "Sunnyside" on WXPN, FM Philadelphia, in August 1976. ...
George Jones: "I'm Never Gonna Sell Pop"
Interview by Nick Tosches, High Fidelity, May 1977
"I HAVE used strings," says George Jones in the same way that one would say "I have sinned." It is not penance, but regret. "I ...
George Jones: My Very Special Guests (Epic EPC 83163)***
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 8 December 1979
BABY, THIS is the Star Wars of country music. Well, maybe not, but it sure makes for an arresting opening sentence and the concept's a ...
George Jones: My Very Special Guests (Epic)
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 5 January 1980
A VETERAN OF over 50 albums, second cousin to the Nashville addiction, cheap booze, paid dues and bad blues, George Jones continues his flirtations with ...
George Jones: My Very Special Guests (Epic)
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, February 1980
FOR OVER 30 years, George Jones has been country's greatest singer, universally admired by both country fans and performers alike in much the same way ...
George Jones: My Very Special Guests (Epic)
Review by Ariel Swartley, Rolling Stone, 21 February 1980
ON MY Very Special Guests, a different celebrity sits in with George Jones on every song — and "sittin' in," contrary to what Nashville would ...
George Jones: I Am What I Am (Epic JE 36586); Johnny Cash: Rockabilly Blues (Columbia JC 36779)
Review by Joe Sasfy, The Washington Post, 22 October 1980
Country to Count On ...
George Jones: Back From the Road to Ruin
Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 25 May 1981
George Jones' Singing Rebound From Lost Love and Liquor ...
George Jones: Fairfax High School, Fairfax VA
Live Review by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 25 May 1981
WHEN GEORGE Jones stepped out on the makeshift stage of Fairfax High School's gym Saturday night, he defined not only his performance, but his career: ...
Overview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 12 January 1985
From the raw to the pure, from the sublime to the meticulous — BARNEY HOSKYNS sings the praises of 24 of music's most glorious voices. ...
George Jones: Wembley Arena Country Festival, London
Live Review by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 12 April 1986
THE GREATEST "NO SHOW" ON EARTH ...
George Jones: Wine Colored Roses (Epic)
Review by James Hunter, Rolling Stone, 21 May 1987
THIS IS the finest George Jones record in more than five years. Still working with producer-arranger Billy Sherrill, Jones commands a mix of ten songs ...
George Jones, Ricky Van Shelton, Rosie Flores: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 2 November 1987
George Jones' Myth Persists at the Greek ...
George Jones, Loretta Lynn: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Baltimore MA
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Evening Sun (Baltimore), The , 14 August 1989
Erratic Jones is nearly perfect at Merriweather ...
Redneck Soul: George Jones and the White Man's Blues
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'From a Whisper to a Scream' (Fontana), 1991
NO ONE IS FONDER of saying that country music is "the white man's blues" than black artists like B.B. King, Etta James and Bobby Womack. ...
George Jones: Tramps, New York NY
Live Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 7 January 1993
OVERWHELMED BY the adoring crowd that greeted his first New York show in thirteen years, George Jones blinked in disbelief and said shyly, "We may ...
George Jones: High-Tech Redneck (MCA MCAD 10910)
Review by Fred Dellar, Vox, June 1994
AT LEAST George hasn't lost his sense of humour. The album sleeve depicts him leaning on a car that sports the numberplate IDOSHOW. Which kinda ...
Stand By Your Ex: George Jones and Tammy Wynette
Interview by Mark Cooper, MOJO, October 1995
Wait till I get you home...to Splitsville, Tennessee, where George Jones and Tommy Wynette have resided since the classic song D.I.V.O.R.C.E. came true following perhaps ...
George Jones & Tammy Wynette: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, November 1995
LONG AGO, in the days before hats and hi-tech rednecks, country music was a soap opera and George Jones and Tammy Wynette were its Dirty ...
George Jones with Tom Carter: I Lived To Tell It All
Book Review by Tom Graves, The Washington Post, 23 June 1996
I LIVED TO TELL IT ALL, the long-awaited autobiography of country music legend George Jones, has to be one of the bleakest, most disconsolate music ...
Guide by Fred Dellar, MOJO, June 1999
Every month we navigate the high-water marks, rapids and stagnant ponds of a prolific artist’s output, so you don’t have to. We continue with... ...
George Jones: The Rock: Stone Cold Country 2001 (Bandit)
Review by John Morthland, No Depression, November 2001
IN MOST WAYS, this is a textbook follow-up to George Jones' eerie, surprisingly substantial 1999 album Cold Hard Truth – same basic song ideas only ...
George Jones: Keeping Up With Jones
Profile and Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, AARP The Magazine, July 2006
FLUFFY, HOT BISCUITS, fresh out of the oven and smothered with redeye gravy, with a thick slab of smoked ham on the side, are a ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, October 2008
Hard-living legend's monument to heartbreak. ...
George Jones: Farewell to the King of Heartbreak
Retrospective by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 26 April 2013
THIS MORNING while finishing my first cup of coffee and checking my Facebook notifications, an email came from a good friend of mine. The title ...
George Jones: 1931-2013 — "He could make you cry with his voice..."
Obituary by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, July 2013
HIS FANS RANGED from Gram Parsons to Frank Sinatra, while Roger McGuinn calls him "more than just the greatest country singer ever". Yet, for much ...
see also Tammy Wynette
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