Biography

By most accounts, George Jones is the finest vocalist in the recorded history of country music. Even as he suffered innumerable personal and professional difficulties, he never left the top of the country charts over the course of his career. Only Eddy Arnold had more Top Ten hits. In the 1970s he and his wife, Tammy Wynette, were the biggest stars in country music, selling out concerts across the country as a duo. Initially, he was a hardcore honky tonker in the tradition of Hank Williams, but over the course of his career he developed an affecting, nuanced ballad style. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• (all My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers

• (don't Take Her) She's All I Got

• (my Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers

• (we're Not) The Jet Set

• 4-0-33

• A Good Year For The Roses

• A Boy Named Sue

• A Day In The Life Of A Fool

• A Drunk Can't Be A Man

• A Good Year For The Roses

• A Little Bitty Tear

• A Picture Of Me (without You)

• A Thousand Times A Day

• A Whole Lot Of Trouble For You

• Accidentally On Purpose

• Achin' Breakin' Heart

• Ain't It Funny What A Fool Will Do

• Apartment No. 9

• Baby (you've Got What It Takes)

• Bartender's Blues

• Beer Run (b Double E Double Are You In?)

• Beggar To A King

• Big City

• Big Fool Of The Year

• Big Harlan Taylor

• Big Job

• Billy Ray Wrote A Song

• Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain

• Blue Moon Of Kentucky

• Blue Side Of Lonesome

• Book Of Memories

• Burn Another Honky Tonk Down

• Burn The Honky Tonk Down

• Burn Your Playhouse Down

• Close Together (as You And Me)

• Cold, Cold Heart

• Color Of The Blues

• Couldn't Love Have Picked A Better Place To Die

• Cup Of Loneliness

• Daddy Come Home (georgette And Daddy)

• Developing My Pictures

• Don't Cry Darlin'

• Don't Do This To Me

• Don't Get Around Much Anymore

• Don't Stop The Music

• Don't Take Your Guns To Town

• Eskimo Pie

• Even The Bad Times Are Good

• Faded Love

• Family Bible

• Feeling Single, Seeing Double

• Footlights

• Four-o-thirty-three

• From Here To The Door

• Georgia On My Mind

• Girl I Used To Know

• Girl, You Sure Know How To Say Goodbye

• Golden Ring

• Good Year For The Roses

• Have You Seen My Chicken

• He Stopped Loving Her Today

• Heartaches By The Number

• Heartbreak Hotel

• Hell Stays Open (all Night Long)

• Hello Darlin'

• Her Name Is...

• Hey, Good Lookin'

• High-tech Redneck

• Homecoming In Heaven

• Honky Tonk Downstairs

• I Always Get Lucky With You

• I Can't Get Over What Lovin' You Has Done

• I Can't Get There From Here

• I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You

• I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair

• I Gotta Get Drunk

• I Just Don't Give A Damn

• I Just Lost My Favorite Girl

• I Love You Because

• I Sleep Just Like A Baby

• I Still Sing The Old Songs

• I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink

• I Turn To You

• I Walk The Line

• If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (her Memory Will)

• If I Don't Love You (grits Ain't Groceries)

• If My Heart Had Windows

• If Not For You

• If Only Your Eyes Could Lie

• I'll Fly Away

• I'll Follow You (up To Our Cloud)

• I'll Just Take It Out In Love

• I'll Share My World With You

• I'm A One Woman Man

• I'm A People

• I'm Not Ready Yet

• I'm Ragged But I'm Right

• I'm The Only Hell (mama Ever Raised)

• It Is No Secret

• It's Been A Beautiful Life

• It's Funny What A Fool Will Do

• It's Only Make Believe

• I've Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night

• Just Little Boy Blue

• Just One More

• Kiss An Angel Good Morning

• Last Town I Painted

• Leaning On The Everlasting Arms

• Lifetime To Regret

• Linda On My Mind

• Love Bug

• Love's Gonna Live Here

• Loving You Could Never Be Better

• Mama's Hungry Eyes

• Man In Black

• Man Worth Lovin' You

• Mansion On The Hill

• Memories

• Milwaukee, Here I Come

• Multiply The Heartaches

• My Elusive Dreams

• Never Bit A Bullet Like This

• Night Life

• No Money In This Deal

• Not What I Had In Mind

• Nothing Can Stop Me

• Nothing Ever Hurt Me (half As Bad As Losing You)

• Old King Kong

• On The Road Again

• Once A Day

• Once You've Had The Best

• One

• One Is A Lonely Number

• Open Pit Mine

• Out Of Control

• Peace In The Valley

• Precious Memories

• Radio Lover

• Ragged, But Right

• Rain Rain

• Rain, Rain

• Relief Is Just A Swallow Away

• Revenooer Man

• Ring Of Fire

• Rock It [alt]

• Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms

• Roly Poly

• Root Beer

• Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town

• Same Ole Me

• San Antonio Rose

• Say It's Not You

• Seasons Of My Heart

• Settin' The Woods On Fire

• She Loves Me (right Out Of My Mind)

• She Thinks I Still Care

• She's All I Got

• She's Mine

• She's My Rock

• Shine On (shine All Your Sweet Love On Me)

• Sick, Sober & Sorry

• Small Time Laboring Man

• Something I Dreamed

• Sometimes You Just Can't Win

• Sparkling Brown Eyes

• Still Doin' Time

• Stranger In The House

• Sweet Dreams

• Sweeter Than The Flowers

• Swinging Doors

• Take Me

• Take Me Back To Tulsa

• Take This Job And Shove It

• Tender Years

• Tennessee Whiskey

• That's All It Took

• The Battle

• The Cold Hard Truth

• The Door

• The Fightin' Side Of Me

• The Grand Tour

• The King Is Gone (so Are You)

• The Love Bug

• The Love In Your Eyes

• The Old Rugged Cross

• The One I Loved Back Then (the Corvette Song)

• The Race Is On

• The Rock

• The Window Up Above

• There Goes My Everything

• These Days (i Barely Get By)

• These Hands

• They'll Never Take Her Love From Me

• Things Have Gone To Pieces

• Time Changes Everything

• Trouble In Mind

• Vitamins L-o-v-e

• Walk Through This World With Me

• Wandering Soul

• We Can Make It

• We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds

• Wedding Bells

• We're Gonna Hold On

• We're Puttin' It Back Together

• What My Woman Can't Do

• What's Bad For You Is Good For Me

• What's Money?

• When The Grass Grows Over Me

• When True Love Steps In

• Where Grass Won't Grow

• Where The Soul Never Dies

• Where The Tall Grass Grows

• White Lightnin'

• White Lightning

• Who Shot Sam

• Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes

• Why Baby Why

• Why Baby Why?

• Window Up Above

• Wine Colored Roses

• Wrong About You

• Wrong's What I Do Best

• Yesterday's Wine

• You And Me And Time

• You Can Always Come Back

• You Comb Her Hair

• You Couldn't Get The Picture

• You Done Me Wrong

• You Win Again

• Your Angel Steps Out Of Heaven

• Your Cheatin' Heart

• You're Still On My Mind

Discography

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• Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again

  Bandit Records

  2006

• Hits I Missed...And One I Didn't

  Bandit Records

  2005

• The Gospel Set

  BMG Special Products

  2004

• The Gospel Collection

  BNA

  2003

• The Rock: Stone Cold Country 2001

  BNA

  2001

• Live with the Possum

  Elektra

  1999

• The Cold Hard Truth

  Asylum / Elektra

  1999

• It Don't Get Any Better Than This

  MCA Nashville / MCA

  1998

• I Lived to Tell It All

  MCA

  1996

• Bradley Barn Sessions

  Universal Special Products / MCA

  1994

• High-Tech Redneck

  MCA

  1993

• Walls Can Fall

  MCA

  1992

• Friends in High Places

  Epic / Sony Music Distribution

  1991

• And Along Came Jones

  Universal Special Products

  1991

• You Oughta Be Here with Me

  Epic

  1990

• One Woman Man

  Epic

  1989

• Live at Dancetown U.S.A.

  Ace

  1987

• Too Wild Too Long

  Epic

  1987

• Wine Colored Roses

  Epic

  1986

• First Time Live

  Sony Music Distribution

  1985

• Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes

  Epic / Sony Music Distribution

  1985

• Ladies' Choice

  Epic

  1984

• You've Still Got a Place in My Heart

  Epic

  1984

• Shine On

  1983

• Still the Same Ole Me

  Sony Music Distribution

  1981

• Double Trouble

  Razor & Tie Music

  1980

• Bartender's Blues

  Razor & Tie Music

  1978

• George & Tammy: Greatest Hits

  Epic

  1977

• The Battle

  Epic

  1976

• Alone Again

  Epic

  1976

• Memories of Us

  Epic

  1975

• The Grand Tour

  Razor & Tie Music

  1974

• In a Gospel Way

  Razor & Tie Music

  1974

• Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)

  Epic

  1973

• A Picture of Me (Without You)

  Epic

  1972

• George Jones (We Can Make It)

  Epic

  1972

• The George Jones Sings the Great Songs of Leon Payne

  Hollywood/IMG / Hollywood

  1971

• George Jones with Love

  Musicor

  1971

• Will You Visit Me on Sunday?

  Musicor

  1970

• I'll Share My World with You

  Musicor

  1969

• Where Grass Won't Grow

  Hollywood

  1969

• If My Heart Had Windows

  Quicksilver

  1968

• George Jones & Melba Montgomery

  Hollywood

  1968

• Song Book & Picture Album

  Starday Records

  1968

• Sings the Songs of Dallas Frazier

  1968

• Walk through This World with Me

  1967

• Book of Memories

  United Artists Records

  1967

• Hits by George

  1967

• Country Heart

  1966

• I'm a People

  1966

• We Found Heaven Right Here on Earth at "4033"

  1966

• It's Country Time Again!

  Musicor

  1966

• Love Bug

  1966

• I Get Lonely in a Hurry

  1965

• Old Brush Arbors

  1965

• The Great George Jones

  1965

• New Country Hits

  1965

• Heartaches and Tears

  1965

• Trouble in Mind

  1965

• Mr. Country & Western Music

  Time Life Music

  1965

• George Jones & Gene Pitney: For the First Time! Two Great Singers

  Musicor

  1965

• Famous Country Duets

  Musicor

  1965

• Together

  Musicor

  1964

• George Jones Sings Like the Dickens!

  Razor & Tie Music

  1964

• Bluegrass Hootenanny

  Longhorn

  1964

• What's in Our Hearts

  United Artists Records

  1963

• Blue & Lonesome

  Righteous

  1963

• I Wish Tonight Would Never End

  1963

• Homecoming in Heaven

  Razor & Tie Music

  1962

• The New Favorites of George Jones

  Liberty

  1962

• From the Heart

  Mercury

  1962

• The Fabulous Country Music Sound of George Jones

  Starday Records

  1962

• Sings Country and Western Hits

  Mercury

  1962

• Country and Western Hits

  Mercury

  1961

• The Crown Prince of Country Music

  Starday Records

  1960

• Country Church Time

  Righteous

  1959

• White Lightning and Other Favorites

  Mercury

  1959

• Long Live King George

  Starday Records

  1958

• Hillbilly Hit Parade

  Starday Records

  1958

• The Grand Ole Opry's New Star

  Starday Records

  1957