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GEORGE JONES
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A HONKY TONK LEGEND |
| By: |
Bob Allen |
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Paperback |
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£18.99 |
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£17.09 |
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£1.90 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1480355828 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781480355828 |
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| Publisher: |
BACKBEAT BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
2 April, 2014 |
| Pages: |
252 |
| Description: |
George Jones' nearly 60-year recording and performing career has had a profound influence on modern country music and influenced a younger generation of singers; his is a larger-than-life tale of rags to riches and back to rags again. |
| Synopsis: |
George Jones' nearly 60-year recording and performing career has had a profound influence on modern country music and influenced a younger generation of singers, including Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Tim McGraw, and Trace Adkins. As Merle Haggard said of Jones in Rolling Stone magazine, His voice was like a Stradivarius violin: one of the greatest instruments ever made. Jones' saga is a larger-than-life tale of rags to riches and back to rags again. He was born into near poverty in a backwater patch of East Texas. His formal education ended early; by his early teens, he was singing on the streets of Beaumont, Texas, for tips. After beginning to record in the mid-1950s Jones became, by sheer dint of his vocal prowess, one of Nashville's most celebrated honky-tonk singers. But from the start, Jones' life, as often reflected in his music, was shaped by misdirection, chaos, turmoil, and emotional strife aggravated by a ferocious appetite for alcohol. Fame and adulation seemed to merely intensify his personal travails. Jones' story has a relatively happy ending.With the help of fourth wife Nancy during the final decade and a half of his life, he got clean and sober, was feted as a much-revered elder statesman for the music, and, by most accounts, found peace of mind at long last. |
| Illustrations: |
Three eight-page colour and black and white photo inserts |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Backbeat Books |
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Returnable |
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