where is the love for George Jones?

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George Jones and the Jones Boys, Live in Texas 1965

Thanks for the recommendation dow! Ace does so many great releases, it's too bad they don't get much attention in the U.S. (Understandably perhaps as they're UK releases, but they're so good and hell I usually get them!)

birdistheword, Thursday, 21 April 2022 18:01 (two years ago) link

Listening to that now, great stuff!

calstars, Thursday, 21 April 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link

Glad yall are enjoying it!

xpost(Such off-label uses of riding mowers are not so uncommon, in mah retail experience.)

For all the antagonism the recordings have stirred up, no one is sure the eight brittle reel-to-reels will survive an effort to convert them into digital recordings. No one has played them in decades, not even the judge who accepted them as collateral. https://t.co/NDTzbf96nE

— New York Times Music (@nytimesmusic) April 24, 2022

dow, Sunday, 24 April 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

guys

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 5 June 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link

guys

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 5 June 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link

how did i not know about “george jones and the smoky mountain boys”????

george jones ✅
roy acuff’s backing band ✅
recorded pristinely some time in the early 1970s ✅
traditional fiddle arrangements etc ✅
just banger after banger after banger ✅
including a pre-red-headed-stranger “blue eyes crying in the rain” ✅✅✅✅✅

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 5 June 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link

ah maybe post. hard to find info about this. there is some unhappiness from the producer about getting no credit.

https://eu.tennessean.com/story/money/2018/03/15/george-jones-widow-record-label-sued-earl-peanutt-montgomery-5-million/427475002/

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 5 June 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link

finally caught up with season 2 of Cocaine & Rhinestones. devastating stuff.

OG Bob Sacamano (will), Sunday, 5 June 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link

nine months pass...

I wish Jones had recorded this song. (This is a demo Elvis Costello recorded for Jones, basically to pitch him the song and show how it would work as a country arrangement.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IibfRi_7S_o

birdistheword, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

listening to a CDr of stuff from his complete united artists recordings 1962-1964 and i just love it to death! it just sounds so good to me. especially those harmonies. whoever did the harmonies with him is awesome. i don't really listen to george jones. but i got hundreds of CDrs that someone had burned of cool country comps/rockabilly/bear family boxes. great sound too. this is a real standout. love "Brown To Blue". its all good though.

scott seward, Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:15 (two weeks ago) link

I haven't seen that series yet. Does Michael Shannon pull it off?

henry s, Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:18 (two weeks ago) link


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