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Don't be shy about picking something obscure. I'm looking for nuggets I might not have heard before.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 2 February 2008 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate to be predictable, but "You're Still On My Mind" or "The Door."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 2 February 2008 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"The Grand Tour"
― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 2 February 2008 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to go with the obvious too: "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Almost went with "White Lighting," "Who Shot Sam," or "The King Is Gone (So Are You)" or whatever fact checkin' cuz decided that last one was supposed to be called.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 2 February 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
that's what it's called. i'd pick 'color of the blues'.
― tremendoid, Saturday, 2 February 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
"The Race Is On"
― M.V., Sunday, 3 February 2008 05:38 (sixteen years ago) link
whatever fact checkin' cuz decided that last one was supposed to be called
original title, and the ONLY title in my heart: "ya ba da ba do (so are you)." that's what it used to say on my cd copy of one woman man and dammit that's what it still says.
it became "the king is gone (so are you)" on paper (and on cd and on box and on the interwebs) after the lawyers got their paws around george's neck. but the lawyers and the paper and the cd and the box and the interwebs are wrong dammit.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 3 February 2008 08:21 (sixteen years ago) link
oh yeah, and if i've got to pick one, it's probably "she still thinks i still care." but there's a couple dozen others i might pick on any other day.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 3 February 2008 08:28 (sixteen years ago) link
that's one too many stills, oops. (call the g-men and the t-men!)
"she thinks i still care."
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 3 February 2008 08:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Yabba Dabba Doo is great. I also really like "Things Have Gone to Pieces". Any of the self pitying I'm drunk and she's left me songs has something to recommend it.
― pauls00, Sunday, 3 February 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
also: "If Drinkin' Won't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 3 February 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Since I started this, I've found "Leaving Love All Over the Place" which is just as fun as the title suggests.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
"Her Name Is"
― burt_stanton like my daddy (some dude), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe not my absolute fave, but a recent discovery: " Hell Stays Open (All Night Long)"
― sonofstan, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:21 (fifteen years ago) link
"If Drinking Don't Kill Me" is my old favourite, but the way he sings that opening line in "The Race Is On" is incredible.
― Brio, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 04:29 (fifteen years ago) link
And if you can handle late-period novelty song George, and I can, then you might like "The King Is Gone (And So Are You)". Nice image of him sitting at "the one little table you left us" talking to Elvis and Fred Flintstone-shaped drinking vessels.
― Brio, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Choices
― mose def (kenan), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Early Jones song I'm currently in love with:
Put the bottle on the tableLet it stay there till I'm not ableTo see your face in ev'ry place that I goI've been sitting here so long Just remembering that you are goneWell, one more drink of wineThen if you're still on my mindOne drink, just one more and then another
― Dan Peterson, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
"Mr. Fool"
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
The Window Up Above
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Bartender's Blues
I can light up your smokesI can laugh at your jokesI can watch you fall down on your kneesI can close down this barI can gas up my carAnd I can pack up and mail in my keys
― Brad C., Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, Window Up Above rules hard too. Too many for OPO.
― Dan Peterson, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
One more, You Comb Her Hair. Are the lyrics to this little vague, or am I just dense?
I know that you wonder who I dream aboutAnd if I met someone who thrills me soWell, I've finally met a girl who turns me inside outI'll tell you about her for you ought to know.
You comb her hair every mornin'And make sure she's dressed just rightYou comb her hair every mornin'And put her to bed everynight.
When she's around me sometimes I can hardly speakI stammer and I walk right into doorsAnd just to hold her hand in mine makes me feel weakOh, you know her heart is a friend of yours.
― Dan Peterson, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
the way he sings that opening line in "The Race Is On" is incredible.
OTMFM
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
acapella break at 1:21 is everything right and good about music
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm a sucker for that trick in any kind music -- you know, "Let's all stop and start at the same time to show everybody how tight we are." Works every time. I like it in "The One I Loved Back Then," too, where George also shows off that crazy low end of his range.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Friday, 20 February 2009 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll second or third "Ya Ba Da Ba Do" a.k.a. "The King Is Dead (And So Are You"). two other sorta obscure ones I like are "The Visit," off of High-Tech Redneck and "I'll Give You Something to Drink About," from maybe the '90s.
― eddhurt, Saturday, 21 February 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
And you lost all courage then lost all you vim.
― j., Sunday, 23 June 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIEwgkcVWLk
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 July 2013 08:48 (eleven years ago) link
"choices" or "i've aged 20 years in 5"
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Saturday, 26 November 2022 09:00 (one year ago) link
george & tammy tv series w/jessica chastain & michael shannon
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5545398/
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 26 November 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
"He Stopped Loving Her Today," which is a strong contender, not only for best George Jones song, but for best country song by anyone ever.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 26 November 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
Awesome expanded live alb, 2018 reissue---my blogged comments x booklet notes:
George Jones/Jones Boys: Live in TX '65: Brave ballads ofself-torture x "C Jam Blues," "White Lightnin'," "Bony Maronie," "B Bowman Bop." Panhandle Rag," "Jole Blon," JB trusty/Bladerunner crooner also cool w girl part on "We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds," heavy guests too. Guests incl. steel guitarist Buddy Emmons and fiddlers Red Hayes and (on "Jole Blond") Rufus Thibodeaux ("Two-By-Four," George calls him). The JBs crooner is Don Adams---android-sounding, strangely(?) satisfying.Ace notes:Not many icons of 1950s and 1960s country music ever made a live album during country’s golden age. One of the select few who tried was George Jones, whose producer H.W. “Pappy” Daily hired mobile equipment and taped George and the Jones Boys at Houston’s famous honky-tonk Dancetown USA sometime in early 1965. Although he claimed to have a cold, George was in fine form that night, but significant audio problems that could not have been easily fixed in the 60s caused Daily to shelve the tapes and abandon the notion of releasing any kind of live set on his most eminent discovery.In the 1980s Ace was offered the opportunity to do something with the tapes and leapt at the chance of putting out a selection of the recordings as a vinyl album tiled “Live At Dancetown USA”. Around a decade later, we issued the full show as a CD to great acclaim.Our previous issues of this material on vinyl and CD were taken from original 2-track mono tapes and mastered that way. This newly remastered release, re-titled “Live In Texas 1965”, presents the recordings in glorious mono, as it would have been issued in 1965. A mono mix gives the listener a more satisfying audio experience. It also reduces the extraneous hiss and sundry noise that was considerably more exposed on the raw 2-track tapes. This new master presents the precious archive material in the best possible sound, without compromising in any way the integrity of the performances of George and the Jones Boys as they sounded in a Texas dancehall in early 1965.The once-brief booklet has been expanded, with a lengthy new note and some era-appropriate photographs that were not available to us previously, and the instrumental tracks have been correctly titled. All these changes are for the better, we hope you’ll agree.Few live sets have ever put the listener front-and-centre in the way this one does. You can hear all kinds of shouts from the audience for specific songs, as well as George’s responses. Announcements over the club’s tannoy frequently match or override George’s stage announcements. The atmosphere generated on the tapes is so vivid that you can almost taste the beer and smell the smoke from a thousand cigarettes. There’s an opening set from the Jones Boys, fronted by George’s label-mate and harmony vocalist Don Adams, together with some brief instrumental workouts that showcase the versatility of the musicians... George himself never had another stab at cutting a live album until the 1980s, so this priceless document of one of the genre’s greatest voices singing most of his important early hits at his 1960s best is all the more valuable for that.Tony Rounce
In the 1980s Ace was offered the opportunity to do something with the tapes and leapt at the chance of putting out a selection of the recordings as a vinyl album tiled “Live At Dancetown USA”. Around a decade later, we issued the full show as a CD to great acclaim.Our previous issues of this material on vinyl and CD were taken from original 2-track mono tapes and mastered that way. This newly remastered release, re-titled “Live In Texas 1965”, presents the recordings in glorious mono, as it would have been issued in 1965. A mono mix gives the listener a more satisfying audio experience. It also reduces the extraneous hiss and sundry noise that was considerably more exposed on the raw 2-track tapes. This new master presents the precious archive material in the best possible sound, without compromising in any way the integrity of the performances of George and the Jones Boys as they sounded in a Texas dancehall in early 1965.The once-brief booklet has been expanded, with a lengthy new note and some era-appropriate photographs that were not available to us previously, and the instrumental tracks have been correctly titled. All these changes are for the better, we hope you’ll agree.
Few live sets have ever put the listener front-and-centre in the way this one does. You can hear all kinds of shouts from the audience for specific songs, as well as George’s responses. Announcements over the club’s tannoy frequently match or override George’s stage announcements. The atmosphere generated on the tapes is so vivid that you can almost taste the beer and smell the smoke from a thousand cigarettes. There’s an opening set from the Jones Boys, fronted by George’s label-mate and harmony vocalist Don Adams, together with some brief instrumental workouts that showcase the versatility of the musicians...
George himself never had another stab at cutting a live album until the 1980s, so this priceless document of one of the genre’s greatest voices singing most of his important early hits at his 1960s best is all the more valuable for that.
Tony Rounce
― dow, Saturday, 26 November 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
"Almost Persuaded"
The way he sings "she had Ruuuuuuuby Red Lips," it's like he's actually outlining the shape of her lips with his voice. I feel like I'm being almost persuaded to sleep with this mystery woman in the barroom too.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 27 November 2022 06:49 (one year ago) link
Michael Shannon IS George Jones.
Wow.
Tim Blake Edwards as Roy Acuff was a pretty inspired cameo too.
― earlnash, Monday, 5 December 2022 02:59 (one year ago) link
I'll have to check this out. I remember when I first got into George Jones, the liner notes to one of his compilations (probably The Spirit of Country from Sony) retold the story of how he came upon a fight between Tammy and her then-husband and then right on the spot told her that he loved her and she should come away with him. That's some crazy-ass Hollywood melodrama come to life, and it only gets crazier from there.
― birdistheword, Monday, 5 December 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link