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Country music has lost a true legend today! I just saw on the news he has passed away!

J-HALEY wrote:Country music has lost a true legend today! I just saw on the news he has passed away!

Damn...it never ends! He was the real article... RIP George!

I've got a lot of connections to George. He was from my hometown, Vidor TX. He helped a few other local boys get into the biz like Mark Chestnutt, Tracy Byrd, & Clay Walker.

My grandpa said that he used to pick up George hitchhiking drunk at age 12 (typical Vidorian) and taught George how to play guitar.... my uncle Robert played fiddle with him in a local band before running off to Nashville to play with Webb Pierce in the early 50s. George came there afterward.

And I've also got a cousin who looks and sings suspiciously like George. My Aunt was rumored to have had an affair with him.

And finally, for a short time we owned the property next to where he and Tammy Wynette lived out on hwy 1131

Ah rest in peace, George. Vidor will miss ya.

just sitting down and winding down w some milk and cookies after my truck stop gig.....we sure played a lot of george jones tonight! he was the real ticket for sure.

Planetguy wrote:just sitting down and winding down w some milk and cookies after my truck stop gig.....we sure played a lot of george jones tonight! he was the real ticket for sure.

Milk and cookies LOL! Gone are the days when we use to have an after party! I guess that's a good thing? Look at me its 4:30 am on a Saturday morning and I just got up, uh oh got to make coffee LOL!

Geroge had vocal abilities that just wouldn't quit, and he knew how to use them.

J-HALEY wrote:

Planetguy wrote:just sitting down and winding down w some milk and cookies after my truck stop gig.....we sure played a lot of george jones tonight! he was the real ticket for sure.

Milk and cookies LOL! Gone are the days when we use to have an after party! I guess that's a good thing? Look at me its 4:30 am on a Saturday morning and I just got up, uh oh got to make coffee LOL!

aw, hell....and that's not even mentioning my afternoon jello, right after they bring my meds just before my nap.

Twenty five years ago I was driving through LA and listening to Hank Jr sing about how 'all his rowdy friends had settled down...' Including George Jones.

The song finished and the news came on - Jones had just been arrested in LA for having a pistol and some cocaine in his car! Not so very settled down eh?

I played for a while in a country outfit called Billy Carroll Whiteman and the Countrymen. Billy's claim to fame was that he'd gotten drunk with George Jones in Jones' Cadillac with the steer horns on the front.

Jones is / was certainly one of my favorite country artists. RIP and a job well done.

Talbot

George Jones-The real deal,and all he had to do was "act Naturally".

In his honor, I'm gonna get drunk (beyond comprehention), be late with anyone inquiring, and not be found available for scheduled business.

Finally stopped loving her