The best way to know country music is to listen to George Jones.
His career has been colorful. Nicknamed the Silver-Haired Possum, Jones has been noted not only for his solo hits but variously for his collaborations–with everyone from Melba Montgomery and the ‘60s country rocker Gene Pitney right through Merle Haggard, Ray Charles, Keith Richard, and the First Lady of Country Music, Jones’s former wife, Tammy Wynette.
The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Jones in 1992. In 2002, he received the National Medal of Arts. His autobiography I Lived To Tell It All became a bestseller. George Jones’s duet with Barbara Mandrell, “(I Was Country) When Country Wasn’t Cool,” another No. 1 Country Hit, did nothing but tell the truth. He’s still cool.
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