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George Jones, the race is on ... Blues

George Jones performed on the twelfth of December two thousand and nine in the Houston Arena, a venue very seventies with round rotating stage and an exquisite sound. Fifteen minutes later the official start time of the concert the "Possum" appeared for the entrance hall, escorted by four policemen and two bodyguards and received a standing ovation impressive.
the show an hour and twenty minutes tasted glory in spite of its precarious state, their years of bottle age have left him a somewhat endearing and sympathetic grandfather aspect that must be helped to his feet. His voice did not give the size and apologized sometimes when things were good, but it did not matter, the public was delivered from that first applause before he took the stage. It was accompanied by a great band, The Jones Boys, and a singer who helped him in duets and has a great savoir faire, Brittany Allyn, and all were ordered very well fill the gaps left by the sometimes shrill voice Jones. During
concert was commenting on stories and repeatedly announcing the offerings of the CD sales table and a variety of merchandise, but also left a poison recadito the "country" that comes from Nashville, saying plaintively that are no longer drinking and mourning songs that today nearly all gender issues deal with matters sappy and dull.
Most of the audience that filled two thirds of the enclosure were white, were somewhat drunk and were very noisy, a profile that fits perfectly in redneck. Followers of all time, the end of the day, accompanied by their children and sometimes grandchildren.
During several songs on screen they would project images of a very young Jones with the hair cut brush, also famous in police custody who is angry with one of the officers yelling at her face with whiskey breath that he was not drunk, as well as several snapshots Tammy Wynette ... and during the song "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?" There was a succession of photos of country artists who were being cheered passionately until he came upon Charley Pride, and, oh, oh ... the applause ceased to be so sound. On stage were two monitors that were passing the lyrics of songs in case Jones forgot a verse, it was not, or if it happened it was so fast that we realized it looked.
The choice of songs were not many surprises, a review of his usual repertoire with two crucial moments in which the audience rose to applaud inflamed: the Houston Arena broke down when they started to sound the chords of the song "He Stopped Loving Her Today "and the other also came with a ballad of pure" feeling Jones "," From The Window Up Above. " Some call the first the best country song ever written, perhaps not so bad but what is certain is that touches the soul, and express it with a roaring ovation that brought the end to sing.

Set List
1. Why, baby why
2. Choices
3. Bartender's blues
4. I always get lucky with you
5. Black Mountain rag (instrumental)
6. Same old me
7. I really don't want to know
8. You are still on my mind
9. The race is on
10. A picture of me without you
11. The One I Loved Back Then (Corvette song)
12. Who's gonna fill their shoes?
13. Me and Jesus
14. Take Me (dúo)
15. Fire on the mountain (instrumental)
16. From the window up above
17. It's been so long, darling/She thinks I still care/White lightning (Medley)
18. Golden ring
19. He stopped loving her today
20. Rocking chair

George Jones has seventy-eight, is a Texan and try to make his brief biography is an impossible task. Born in Saratoga, a September 12th of 1931, and raised in Vidor. Two of the things that marked him were his family and how he earned his living as a kid. His father was an alcoholic and his mother was the most patient woman in the world, from his father inherited the habit and her mother was what I always looked at his four wives.
The first contact with music came to him through the church and the library board records their parents, and all started when very young will regulate a English guitar. At sixteen he left home and began to make a living singing in the street, their quality was such that earned him a spot on a local radio station in Jasper and then another in Beaumont where he met one in person their idols, the great Hank Williams, who visited the station doing promotion.
After two years of Marine, in which did not stop to give concerts in bars near the base of California in which it was intended, he left the army and recorded his first album for Starday Records: "No Money in This Deal." Following that theme would his first hit "Why Baby Why "in 1955 after Mercury began to distribute their recordings in which he gave vent to his rockabilly vein with the stage name" Thumper Jones ", a time that curiously denies and which became successful versioning Elvis' "Heartbreak Hotel".
While at Mercury it was his first number one with "White Lightning" in 1959 and two years later would come another two, this time in the form of ballad "Tender Years" and "She Thinks I Still Care" . His great balladeer side began to take shape at this time but would reach its peak one year later.
mid-sixties of label changed again, joined by Musicor and they have another number one with the theme "Walk Through This World With Me" in 1967.
In 69 his life changed forever, Jones, with two divorces behind her, Tammy Wynette married and became the king and queen of the country, were the couple that everyone was talking and the everyone wanted to shoot. That advertising had to be used to make records together, but were in different companies that were closed in-band and gave permission for them to burn. That made it two years later, after tense negotiations, George end up giving up the rights of the recording with Starday and Musicor to sign with company where she was, Epic Records. And with that change, he began a career of twenty years with someone who would be instrumental in his career, the producer Billy Sherrill.
The duets he recorded with Tammy Wynette Epic at the time were as remarkable as its arguments, and several of them managed to get to the top of the charts: in 1973 with the theme "We're Gonna Hold On", 1976 with "Golden Ring" and "Near You" the following year. And with all this also came billion and excess.
His alcoholism was never a secret to anyone, after decades of rampant libation in 1979 was the most delicate moment of his career. During that year he spent more time drunk than sober and there were no more than fifty concerts hired. That fact led him to change his nickname of "Possum" became known as "No Show Jones."
Sometime in the seventies also met the burning of coke, nose candy was first provided by a promoter who gave it a try before a concert that Jones was too "tired" to carry out. The developer got his goal and singer discovered a new world. That was a lousy business, years of abuse of narcotic r counteracts the effects of liquor were you becoming more irritable and was eventually admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Alabama in a deplorable mental state.
There is a story that has achieved legendary status and making quite understand your need alcohol. Shirley, his second wife, tired of seeing her husband was having breakfast with a screwdriver, for what the good of vitamin C, and bore the rest of the day based on Jack Daniels, came a day home in his car clutching Jones keys while he slept. When he woke up and realized that I had to drink was to get the keys on all sides. He gave them but that did not stop him from achieving his goal: he opened the garage, pulled an old lawn mower John Deere brand, sat down, grabbed the wheel and drove eight miles from the outskirts of Beaumont to find a liquor store in town where you can buy water from fire.
What not many people know is that this was not the only time his ex-wife also told Tammy Wynette in his biography a similar story about the ability of Jones at the wheel of vehicles gardening:
"Around one in the morning I woke up and saw it was gone. I took the car and walked to the nearest bar about ten miles. I parked and saw the lawn next to the entrance. He had put him in the highway. I entered the bar, looked up at me and said, "Boys, here's ... my girl, I said I would ... "In the eighties
did what he could to rehabilitate himself with many ups and downs in the process, but never disappeared from the music scene and busted the charts in 1980 with one of the greatest country songs remembered for all time: "He Stopped Loving Her Today", with which it took several awards from the Country Music Association and even a Grammy for best country artist of the year. The number one followed in the next three years: "(I Was Country) When Country Was not Cool" a duet with Barbara Mandrell in 1981, another in the same year with "Still Doin 'Time", another with a theme played with Merle Haggard at 82, "Yesterday's Wine", and 83 with "I Always Get Lucky With You". For the rest of the eighties had singles great success and always placed in the top ten lists of the genre.
In 1991 it was time dream of Tony Brown, president of MCA Records Nashville, it was with excitement as George Jones signed contract with your company. Brown said for him that it was as if Elvis had signed with MCA. The following year Jones joined the Country Music Hall of Fame and his speech was a particular memorable presentation by asking the dj specialized radio stations that recognize the work of established stars of the genre and not just fixate on the new figures, which were there thanks to the pioneers.
Your stay at MCA gave us great songs like "I Do not Need Your Rockin 'Chair," a vindication of his person, a clarification that was still alive dedicated to all those who took it for finishing. Among others came a spectacular duet album, "The Bradley Barn Sessions", and a reunion with his ex-wife, Tammy Wynette, entitled "One."
After that revival was another problem, this time more seriously, March 6, 1999 had an accident with his brutal car near Nashville. Firefighters took two hours to remove the metal mess that became his ATV and his injuries were so severe that he thought his time comes. Apparently "was an oversight" while talking on the phone, first with someone from the record company Asylum, who had to sign, and then with his stepdaughter who is also wife of his MNAGER. George was not wearing a seat belt and rolling there was a half full bottle of vodka ...
When he left the hospital after a miraculous recovery had a trial at which he pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and sentenced to the best thing that could have happened: to keep a severe drug treatment, which reached a reasonable level of success. George Jones
must be immortal because after that he returned to the charts with a beautiful ballad, "Choices," with which he was nominated for Single of the Year by the CMA. The producers of the proposed awards gala to sing in his performance only a fraction of the item referring problems MINUTES Jones TV and rolling it back, very angry with the recommendation did not appear. Alan Jackson was, however, which led the cheers of the night when after finishing his performance was pulled out of the script agreed to sing the theme song as a tribute to Possum. Ironies of life, Jones was not involved in the program of TV universe of country music but that year won another Grammy for the song.
Despite his 70 years as lived, the decade of the two thousand Jones has shown a very active both tours and albums as private businesses and other projects. After the release of "Cold Hard Truth", in the summer of 99 came close to Asylum Records. George, along with other label artists who saw his record was gone, they created a separate company called the Bandit Records has released their latest work to date: "The Rock: Stone Cold Country" 2001, a collection 2003, "The Gospel Collection ", with versions produced gospel music after many years away, by Billy Sherrill," Hits I Missed ... And One I Did not "of 2005, which recorded songs he wrote for other artists and includes a rerecording of" I stoppped loving her today "and finally a 2008 album" Burning Your Playhouse Down, "a kind of continuation the album "The Bradley Barn Sessions" with unreleased duets. And in his career as important as their albums have been collaborations with many artists, among which we find Margie Singleton, Gene Pitney, Brenda Carter, Melba Montgomery, Tammy Wynette, James Taylor, Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, Merle Haggard, Ray Charles, Brenda Lee, Lacy J. Dalton, Shelby Lynne, Randy Travis, Sammy Kershaw, Alan Jackson, Shooter Jennings, Johnny Cash, Bobby Bare, to name but a few.
In 2009 the restaurant chain Cracker Barrel "with permission from Jones released a compilation of his hits" A Collection of My Best Recollection "which contains two previously unreleased tracks" I Do not Want To Know "and" I'm A Long Gone Daddy. "
The singer has a curriculum called "The George Jones Univ ersity " consisting of two annual courses that deal with the music business, plus owns his own brand of sausage, made with family recipe, and that bear his name because "I would not put my name to something that was not really the best, do not want to disappoint my fans." Wrappings and boxes of their meat products are printed stories about the life of Jones having to do one way or another with sausage ...
"Breakfast was always my favorite meal of the day, my wife Nancy set the table and I Custom fry the sausage and make sure it is ready. "
few years ago opened a restaurant in Enterprise, Alabama, Possum Holler, a room full of memorabilia from his years as an artist of the song and in the last 2009 gave its name to open also in the same area a hotel: The George Jones Bed & Breakfast Possum Holler. The merchandising section of its website offers amazing products and packages coffee and barbecue sauce of its own brand, cassettes, calendars, 2007 ... George Jones is synonymous with business. For more information
there is a highly recommended biography of George Jones called "I Lived to Tell It All" (I lived to tell all), published in 1996 and is on the Internet for the price of laughter.
The race is on ...
Carlos Rodríguez Duque

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