Born in Texas, Jones first heard country music when he was seven, and was given a guitar at the age of nine. He married his first wife, Dorothy Bonvillion, in 1950, and was divorced in 1951. He served in the United States Marine Corps and was discharged in 1953. He married Shirley Ann Corley in 1954. In 1959, Jones recorded "White Lightning", written by J. P. Richardson, which launched his career as a singer. His second marriage ended in divorce in 1968; he married fellow country music singer Tammy Wynette a year later. Years of alcoholism compromised his health and led to his missing many performances, earning him the nickname "No Show Jones". After his divorce from Wynette in 1975, Jones married his fourth wife, Nancy Sepulvado, in 1983 and became sober for good in 1999. Jones died in 2013, aged 81, from hypoxic respiratory failure.
George Jones has been called "The Rolls Royce Of Country Music" and had more than 160 chart singles to his name from 1955 until his death in 2013. Johnny Cash once said, "When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?'"
Jones tirelessly defended the integrity of country music, telling Billboard in 2006, "It's never been for love of money. I thank God for it because it makes me a living. But I sing because I love it, not because of the dollar signs." Jones also went out of his way to promote younger country singers that he felt were as passionate about the music as he was. "Everybody knows he's a great singer," Alan Jackson stated in 1995, "but what I like most about George is that when you meet him, he is like some old guy that works down at the gas station...even though he's a legend!"
Shortly after Jones' death, Andrew Mueller wrote about his influence in Uncut, "He was one of the finest interpretive singers who ever lifted a microphone...There cannot be a single country songwriter of the last 50-odd years who has not wondered what it might be like to hear their words sung by that voice." In an article for The Texas Monthly in 1994, Nick Tosches eloquently described the singer's vocal style: "While he and his idol, Hank Williams, have both affected generations with a plaintive veracity of voice that has set them apart, Jones has an additional gift—a voice of exceptional range, natural elegance, and lucent tone. Gliding toward high tenor, plunging toward deep bass, the magisterial portamento of his onward-coursing baritone emits white-hot sparks and torrents of blue, investing his poison love songs with a tragic gravity and inflaming his celebrations of the honky-tonk ethos with the hellfire of abandon." In the New Republic essay "Why George Jones ranks with Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday," David Hajdu writes:
"Jones had a handsome and strange voice. His singing was always partly about the appeal of the tones he produced, regardless of the meaning of the words. In this sense, Jones had something in common with singers of formal music and opera, though his means of vocal production were radically different from theirs. He sang from the back of his throat, rather than from deep in his diaphragm. He tightened his larynx to squeeze sound out. He clenched his jaw, instead of wriggling it free. He forced wind through his teeth, and the notes sounded weirdly beautiful."
David Cantwell recalled in 2013, "His approach to singing, he told me once, was to call up those memories and feelings of his own that most closely corresponded to those being felt by the character in whatever song he was performing. He was a kind of singing method actor, creating an illusion of the real." In the liner notes to Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country Rich Kienzle states, "Jones sings of people and stories that are achingly human. He can turn a ballad into a catharsis by wringing every possible emotion from it, making it a primal, strangled cry of anguish". In 1994, country music historian Colin Escott pronounced, "Contemporary country music is virtually founded on reverence for George Jones. Walk through a room of country singers and conduct a quick poll, George nearly always tops it." In the wake of Jones's death, Merle Haggard pronounced in Rolling Stone, "His voice was like a Stradivarius violin: one of the greatest instruments ever made." Emmylou Harris wrote, "when you hear George Jones sing, you are hearing a man who takes a song and makes it a work of art - always," a quote that appeared on the sleeve of Jones' 1976 album The Battle. In the documentary Same Ole Me, several country music stars offer similar thoughts. Randy Travis: "It sounds like he's lived every minute of every word that he sings and there's very few people who can do that"; Tom T. Hall: "It was always Jones who got the message across just right"; and Roy Acuff: "I'd give anything if I could sing like George Jones". In the same film, producer Billy Sherrill states, "All I did was change the instrumentation around him. I don't think he's changed at all."
On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed George Jones among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
Just One More
George Jones Lyrics
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Let it stay there 'til I'm not able
To see your face in every place that I go
I've been sitting here so long
Just remembering that you are gone
Well, one more drink of wine
Then if you're still on my mind
One drink, just one more, and then another
I'll keep drinking, it won't matter
I'll just remember that I once had her
I don't know why I sit and cry every day
I've been trying to forget, but I haven't stopped as yet
Well, one more drink of wine
Then if you're still on my mind
One drink, just one more, and then another
Put the bottle on the table
Let it stay there 'tll I'm not able
To see your face in every place that I go
I've been sitting here so long
Just remembering that you are gone
Well, one more drink of wine
Then if you're still on my mind
One drink, just one more, and then another
The song "Just One More" by George Jones is a classic country heartbreak song. In these lyrics, the singer is asking someone to put a bottle of wine on the table and leave it there until he's not able to see the face of the one who left him anymore. He has been sitting there for a very long time, just remembering that the person is gone, and every time he drinks more wine, he hopes that he will forget about them.
Despite the fact that he has been trying to forget about the one who left him, he hasn't been able to do so just yet. He has been sitting there every day crying and hoping that one more drink of wine will make it easier to forget. The singer knows that he won't be able to forget her, and he will keep drinking, and it won't matter because he'll just remember that he once had her.
The song is a poignant representation of the classic country music theme of heartbreak and love gone wrong. It's touching to hear the singer's pain and longing for a lost love, as well as his struggles to move on. The lyrics are simple yet emotional, and the music adds to the mood, making this a country classic.
Line by Line Meaning
Put the bottle on the table
I'm going to drink away my sorrows, so I need to put the bottle somewhere easy to access.
Let it stay there till I'm not able
I plan to drink until I can no longer function, so I don't want to have to go looking for the bottle.
To see your face in ev'ry place that I go
I see you everywhere, even when you're not there, and it's driving me to drink.
I've been sitting here so long
I'm stuck in this cycle of drinking and depression, and I don't know how to escape it.
Just remembering that you are gone
The memory of you is haunting me, and I can't seem to shake it off.
Well, one more drink of wine
Maybe one more drink will take the edge off and help me forget about you for a little while.
Then if you're still on my mind
If I'm still thinking about you after this one drink, I'll have to keep going until I can't remember anything at all.
One drink, just one more, and then another
I know I shouldn't keep drinking, but I can't stop myself because the pain is too much to bear.
Lyrics © GLAD MUSIC CO.
Written by: George Jones
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Dog Trekker
Just the greatest country singer ever. There will never be another like George Jones!
Thomas Corder
Yes!
Verna Burns
THE GREATEST SINGER EVER!!!
stephen lamb
His voice was Like a fine wine! The older he got the better it got! Simply amazing that almost 40 years later he could blow his own original version away! Love and miss George Jones!
Kim McCrea
Well said my friend
Bác sĩ Gabe
Thanks to alcohol...everyone says how bad it is but most of us are here because of it
Christine Stamant.
❤ all his songs
keithwhitleyfan76
Love this one by King George . The best there ever will be . Rip a pure country legend .
The greatest country singer to ever take a breath!!
Patricia Rookstool
love all of his songs but I can't get this tune out of my mind. country music tells a story about REAL life. R I P George. You are one of the best