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DISCID=2a0dba14
DTITLE=George Jones / The Essential George Jones - Disc 2 of 2
DYEAR=2006
DGENRE=Country
TTITLE0=The Grand Tour
TTITLE1=Once You've Had The Best
TTITLE2=We Loved It Away / George Jones with Tammy Wynette
TTITLE3=The Door
TTITLE4=These Days (I Barely Get By)
TTITLE5=Memories Of Us
TTITLE6=I Just Don't Give A Damn
TTITLE7=A Drunk Can't Be A Man
TTITLE8=Stand On My Own Two Knees
TTITLE9=The Battle
TTITLE10=Someday My Day Will Come
TTITLE11=He Stopped Loving Here Today
TTITLE12=If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)
TTITLE13=I've Aged Twenty Years In Five
TTITLE14=Still Doin' Time
TTITLE15=You've Still Got A Place In My Heart
TTITLE16=I Always Get Lucky With You
TTITLE17=The Right Left Hand
TTITLE18=I'm A One Woman Man
TTITLE19=Choices
EXTD=The Essential George Jones - Disc 2 of 2\n2006 Epic/Legacy\n\nOri
EXTD=ginally Released March 28, 2006\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: It has a si
EXTD=milar title and a similar length to Epic/Legacy's 1994 double-dis
EXTD=c set The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country, but Epic
EXTD=/Legacy's 2006 collection The Essential George Jones is a differe
EXTD=nt beast entirely. At 40 tracks, it's four songs shorter than the
EXTD= 1994 comp, but the real difference is in the song selection. Whe
EXTD=re The Spirit of Country offered a good overview of every label G
EXTD=eorge recorded for between 1955 and 1989, Legacy could not get li
EXTD=censing for his work for Musicor in the second half of the '60s, 
EXTD=which means there are a few big omissions here, including "Things
EXTD= Have Gone to Pieces," "Love Bug," "I'm a People," "Walk Through 
EXTD=This World with Me," "Say It's Not You," and "A Good Year for the
EXTD= Roses." With the exception of "Things Have Gone to Pieces" and "
EXTD=Say It's Not You," all of those singles were on The Spirit of Cou
EXTD=ntry, and their absence is felt on Essential, as is the absence o
EXTD=f novelty numbers like 1959's "Who Shot Sam" to 1976's "Her Name 
EXTD=Is..." These silly songs are nearly as much a trademark of Jones'
EXTD= style as his signature ballad style, so without them -- and with
EXTD=out the Musicor songs -- The Essential feels a bit lop-sided towa
EXTD=rd the serious hardcore honky tonk. Hardly a fatal flaw, of cours
EXTD=e, since this is where much of Jones' legacy lies, and it is a go
EXTD=od, accurate overview of George's career, even if it's not as tho
EXTD=rough or lively as The Spirit of Country. Apart from the aforemen
EXTD=tioned Musicor sides and his MCA work of the '90s (which is hardl
EXTD=y a glaring omission), this offers a fair representation of his m
EXTD=any labels: there are four cuts from Starday, six apiece from Mer
EXTD=cury and United Artists, a whopping 25 sides from Epic -- which i
EXTD=s appropriate, since he spent nearly 20 years on the label and ha
EXTD=d over 60 charting singles while he was there -- and, as a coda, 
EXTD=a cut from his 1999 album for Asylum. Along the way, most, but ce
EXTD=rtainly not all, of his big hits are presented, including "Why Ba
EXTD=by Why," "White Lightning," "The Window Up Above," "Tender Years,
EXTD=" "She Thinks I Still Care," "The Race Is On," "The Grand Tour," 
EXTD=and "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Any George compilation that ha
EXTD=s all these hits, along with many other excellent songs, is bound
EXTD= to be a great listen and a useful overview -- it's just that the
EXTD= absences here are large enough that this can't quite supplant Th
EXTD=e Spirit of Country, which remains the best overall George Jones 
EXTD=compilation. But if that set can't be found, this is a good subst
EXTD=itute. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\n
EXTD=REAL COUNTRY, May 10, 2006\nReviewer: Jim Newsom (Norfolk, VA)\nG
EXTD=eorge Jones is the archetypal country singer. Born in a log cabin
EXTD= in east Texas and raised on gospel music in church and Carter Fa
EXTD=mily records at home, he left school at sixteen, married and divo
EXTD=rced young, spent a couple of years in the Marines, cut some side
EXTD=s for a small record company, performed with Elvis Presley, booze
EXTD=d, brawled and rode atop the country charts for thirty years. \n\n
EXTD=The Essential George Jones tells his story in music, collecting f
EXTD=orty songs recorded between 1954 and 1999, tracing the career of 
EXTD=one of the true greats of the genre. Listening to the early sides
EXTD=, we see that Jones started out as a Hank Williams disciple, with
EXTD= the first four tracks sounding more like ol' Hank than young Pos
EXTD=sum. But as the set progresses, Jones' own distinctive style emer
EXTD=ges. Old Rock-n-Rollers will remember "White Lightning" a silly r
EXTD=ockabilly novelty hit in 1959, and "The Race is On" from the Beat
EXTD=le summer of 1964, but it's his string of number one country ball
EXTD=ads that best defines the Jones legacy. "The Window Up Above," "T
EXTD=ender Years" and the classic "She Thinks I Still Care" defined th
EXTD=e sound of Nashville in the early `60s in much the same way that 
EXTD=Patsy Cline's records did, with that tinkly Floyd Cramer-style pi
EXTD=ano in the forefront and full vocal chorus in the background. \n\n
EXTD=Essential has a six-year gap in its chronology, as Legacy was app
EXTD=arently unable to acquire the rights to Jones' output for Musicor
EXTD= Records in the second half of the `60s. But it picks up again wi
EXTD=th his 1971 duet with third wife Tammy Wynette, the beginning of 
EXTD=a particularly fruitful four-year period back at the top. It was 
EXTD=anything but fruitful for Jones personally, though, as he dug dee
EXTD=per into the bottle, added cocaine to the mix, and developed a re
EXTD=putation for missing concerts that earned him the moniker "No-Sho
EXTD=w Jones." He and Tammy separated, reconciled, then divorced, and 
EXTD=his song titles reflected the mess his life had become: "These Da
EXTD=ys (I Barely Get By)," "I Just Don't Give a Damn," "A Drunk Can't
EXTD= Be a Man," and "Stand on My Own Two Knees." \n\nIronically, thou
EXTD=gh he was bottoming out with drug addiction, public rampages and 
EXTD=a televised police chase through the streets of Nashville, Jones 
EXTD=reappeared at the top of the charts in 1980 with the tear-jerking
EXTD= classic, "He Stopped Loving Her Today," launching another musica
EXTD=lly successful run that included #1 hits "Still Doin' Time" and "
EXTD=I Always Get Lucky with You." \n\nAfter finally detoxing in 1983 
EXTD=following his fourth marriage, he continued to hit the country ch
EXTD=arts with songs like "The Right Left Hand" and "I'm a One Woman M
EXTD=an" until the hat acts of "new country" bumped him off the radio 
EXTD=playlists for good. Through the `90s he was more elder statesman 
EXTD=that hitmaker, but at the end of the decade he briefly reappeared
EXTD= on the air with "Choices," a song given added poignancy by a dru
EXTD=nken car crash during its recording sessions. \n\nGeorge Jones ep
EXTD=itomized the sound of country music before the rough edges were s
EXTD=anded off by big money and big corporations. His music came strai
EXTD=ght from the heart, full of soul, twangy, often clich?d, but alwa
EXTD=ys real. \n\nOriginally published in Port Folio Weekly, 4/18/06. 
EXTD=\ncopyright 2006 Port Folio Weekly. Used by Permission.\n\nAMAZON
EXTD=.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nA Good Start ... , May 8, 2006\nReviewer: P
EXTD=aul W. Dennis (Winter Springs, FL USA)\nThis two disc set of 40 s
EXTD=ongs on the Epic / Legacy Label is an excellent introduction to t
EXTD=he career of George Jones. Of course, when you've charted over 16
EXTD=0 singles over the course of 50 years, any 40 song set can only s
EXTD=cratch at the totality of his career. While I can think of additi
EXTD=onal songs that I'd like to add to this collection, I can't think
EXTD= of any that are on the set that I'd be willing to delete. \n\nSi
EXTD=nce this set comes to us from Epic,it naturally focuses most heav
EXTD=ily on George's 20 years or so with the label. It does, however, 
EXTD=delve into the early catalog of Starday and Mercury recordings, i
EXTD=ncluding three songs ("No Money In This Deal", "I'm Ragged But I'
EXTD=m Right" and "Why Baby Why") that date back to the earliest sessi
EXTD=ons in 1955. \n\nDisc One includes such classics from the Mercury
EXTD= and United Artists years as "White Lightning", "Tender Years","A
EXTD= Girl I Used To Know", "You're Still On My Mind", The Race Is On"
EXTD=, "She Thinks I Still Care" and "Window Up Above" plus duets with
EXTD= Melba Montgomery ("We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds") and Tamm
EXTD=y Wynette ("Take Me"). The Musicor years are conspicuously missin
EXTD=g,probably due to licensing difficulties. The last three songs on
EXTD= Disc One are from the Epic years as are 19 of the 20 songs on Di
EXTD=sc Two. \n\nDisc Two can be best described as the best of the Epi
EXTD=c years with such classics as "The Grand Tour", "The Door", "Stil
EXTD=l Doin' Time", "I Always Get Lucky With You", "He Stopped Loving 
EXTD=Her Today" and "If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)". The
EXTD= post-Epic period is represented only by the Billy Yates-penned c
EXTD=lassic "Choices", but the end of George Jones as a hit singles ar
EXTD=tist essentially coincided with his departure from Epic. \n\nSoun
EXTD=d quality is excellent \n\nMy suspicion is that any listener buyi
EXTD=ng this set as their first George Jones collection, will be pursu
EXTD=ing many more George Jones recordings. If so, this is a good plac
EXTD=e to start the journey \n\nHalf.com Album Notes\nPersonnel: Georg
EXTD=e Jones; Melba Montgomery, Tammy Wynette.\nRecording information:
EXTD= 1954 - 1988.
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