Country Artist Jones Gets Behind
Water
By Phyllis Stark
NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Country icon George Jones (news) is introducing his own brand of
bottled drinking water, George Jones' White Lightning Tennessee Spring Water.
The product is named after Jones' 1959 No. 1 hit "White Lightning."
The water is the latest entry in Jones' line of food products, which includes sausages, biscuits and
sauces branded with the artist's name. The products are available in more than 5,000 U.S. grocery
stores.
In April the line will grow to include precooked sausage links and bacon.
The water initially will be sold at grocery and convenience stores throughout the Southeastern
United States. Pumped from a natural spring in rural Tennessee, it is bottled by Hohenwald,
Tenn.-based Sweetwater Corp.
Williams Sausage distributes the water, as well as Jones' breakfast food and sauce products.
Jones recently recorded with Jerry Lee Lewis (news) in Memphis for Lewis' upcoming duets album.
Reuters/Billboard
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 29 March 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)
Is bottled water not a big thing in the UK? Or is it that you'd expect him to endorse whiskey?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 March 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)
City slicker came and he said "I;m mighty tough"
oh blah, I'm off ome ....
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 29 March 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)
i've got no problem with george jones endorsing water, but it IS a little bit weird to call it that.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)