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George Jones: Anniversary -- Ten Years of Hits |
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Genre: "Hardcore" Country |
Dates: 1972-1982 |
Why TWO Jones CDs, you ask? Since Hank Williams died, he's only been the greatest singer in country music for over a half-century, and one CD doesn't do him justice. Plus, this is different from the above collection: aside from some transcendently corny novelties, they are all deep, slow, painful ballads, which demonstrate something most singers can't do, but Jones does with alarming regularity—the transformation of crap into the art of the highest drama, and the most heartbreaking tragedy (a guy named Shakespeare did something similar in literature). Case in point: "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Songwriter Bobby Braddock wrote it as a light novelty. After Jones got through with it, and moved a nation to reluctant tears, it was voted greatest country song of all-time. Tracks 9-22 deliver stoic devastation at a poetic level most great singers manage once in a lifetime, and Jones recorded them while fighting demons that almost killed him.
Playlist:
1. We Can Make It
2. Loving You Could Never Be Better
3. Picture Of Me, A (Without You)
4. What My Woman Can't Do
5. Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half As Bad As Losing You)
6. Once You've Had The Best
7. Her Name Is...
8. Old King Kong
9. Bartender's Blues - (with James Taylor)
10. I'll Just Take It Out In Love
11. Someday My Day Will Come
12. Grand Tour, The
13. Door, The
14. These Days (I Barely Get By)
15. Memories Of Us
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17. He Stopped Loving Her Today
18. I'm Not Ready Yet
19. If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)
20. Good Ones And Bad Ones
21. Still Doin' Time
22. Same Ole Me - (with The