Latest Release
- 8 SEPT 2023
- 1 Song
- George Jones With Love · 1971
- 16 Biggest Hits: George Jones · 1980
- His Epic Hits: The First 11 · 1968
- Golden Ring · 1976
- 16 Biggest Hits: George Jones · 1974
- 16 Biggest Hits: George Jones · 1978
- Sings Country Hits · 1979
- 16 Biggest Hits: George Jones · 1972
- George Jones & the Smoky Mountain Boys · 2017
- I Get Lonely In A Hurry · 1964
Essential Albums
- What makes this one of George Jones’ finest post-’70s albums? For one thing, it contains perhaps the most heart-wrenching country ballad ever sung, “He Stopped Loving Her Today”. But it also finds the honky-tonk hero bringing more gravitas to the table than ever before. When he sings, “I’ve seen the dark side of life” on the alcoholic’s lament “I’ve Aged Twenty Years in Five”, for instance, he’s not gliding though some devil-may-care drinking song; he’s offering a gripping glimpse of a middle-aged man grappling with life-and-death decisions.
- 1979
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976
- 1974
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- The quintessential country singer forevermore.
- Ol' Possum had some powerful duet partners.
- Country rockers and neo-trad titans tip their hats.
Singles & EPs
Live Albums
- 2016
- 2014
- 2013
Appears On
- Jason Byrd
About George Jones
It’s difficult to understate the profound influence George Jones and the clear, classic twang of his unmistakable voice had on country music. Born in Texas in 1931, Jones got a hold of his first guitar at nine years old, was busking on street corners shortly after, and he didn’t stop singing until less than a month before he died at 81. In between, “The Possum”—an early nickname that stuck forever—was a mainstay on country music charts, starting with the blistering rockabilly of “White Lightning” in 1959, and helped define the sound of the genre. His name is synonymous with heartbreak, and songs like the lonesome “She Thinks I Still Care” have spurred many a tear to drop into many a beer. But his most famous song, “He Stopped Loving Her Today”—about a man who carries a torch until the day he dies for the lover who left him—has a capacity to devastate that is unrivalled in a genre that often trades in pain. Relationships were rich fodder for Jones, and his marriage to fellow country star Tammy Wynette led to a decades-long, often tempestuous, collaborative relationship that produced classic duets like the realist love story “Golden Ring”. Jones’ 1985 song “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes” pays tribute to his musical heroes—Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard—but rest assured, if there’s ever a country music Mount Rushmore, The Possum’s mug will be on it.
- HOMETOWN
- Saratoga, TX, United States
- BORN
- 12 September 1931
- GENRE
- Country