George Jones : The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend Paperback / softback
by Bob Allen
Paperback / softback
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George Jones's nearly 60-year recording and performing career has had a profound influence on modern country music and influenced a younger generation of singers including Garth Brooks Alan Jackson Randy Travis Tim McGraw and Trace Adkins.
As Merle Haggard said of Jones in ÊRolling StoneÊ magazine His voice was like a Stradivarius violin: one of the greatest instruments ever made. ÞJones's saga is a larger-than-life tale of rags to riches and back to rags again.
He was born into near poverty in a backwater patch of East Texas.
His formal education ended early; by his early teens he was singing on the streets of Beaumont Texas for tips.
After beginning to record in the mid-1950s Jones became by sheer dint of his vocal prowess one of Nashville's most celebrated honky-tonk singers.
But from the start Jones's life as often reflected in his music was shaped by misdirection chaos turmoil and emotional strife aggravated by a ferocious appetite for alcohol.
Fame and adulation seemed to merely intensify his personal travails.ÞJones's story has a relatively happy ending.
With the help of fourth wife Nancy during the final decade and a half of his life he got clean and sober was feted as a much-revered elder statesman for the music and by most accounts found peace of mind at long last.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Hal Leonard Corporation
- Publication Date:01/02/2014
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- ISBN:9781480355828
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Hal Leonard Corporation
- Publication Date:01/02/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781480355828