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George Jones

Today’s Vegetable:
These Old Bones, They Move Slow, But So Sure Of Their Footsteps

September 9, 2009

Oh shit! We haven’t heard from the Possum in a while!
The Greatest Voice In Country Music turns 78 on Saturday. Why not celebrate by trying to avoid having a hangover?
George Jones – If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will) from I Am What I Am

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If I Could Go Back, Oh Lord Knows, I’d Run

February 26, 2009

Read in the paper that Leonard Cohen’s got this tune on his laptop, so while you’re raiding the kids’ college account for Cohen ticket money, why don’t you sing along with Lenny & George?
George Jones – Choices from Cold Hard Truth

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There’s So Little Left To Say We Haven’t Said

December 8, 2008

I just heard the Elvis Costello version of this for the first time recently (I know, I know) and was reminded what a truly amazing country song this is (thanks, Jerry Chesnut!). Elvis does a respectful and respectable job, but only George fills that coffee cup to the brim with soulful tears.
He’s the king.
George Jones [...]

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Old-Fashioned Girls Are Fun

August 20, 2008

HV has been pretty melancholy lately, so here’s a sweet little Possum treat to balance it out.
I just found out that this song has a different title than it did back in the days when I fell in love with it. It seems that after this song’s release in 1989, Hanna-Barbera politely asked CBS Records [...]

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Who’s Gonna Play The Opry (Goddammit)?

September 7, 2007

After yesterday’s post I had this song in my head all day long. Maybe not one of The Possum’s greatest (which are too many to count), but it still gives me goosebumps sometimes. Possibly because several of the people he sings about that were alive at the time have since passed on, and [...]

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