In my little book the Rolling Stones are the best rock and roll group, Sun Ra is the best jazz artist, James Brown is the best R&B artist, Bob Marley is the best reggae artist, The Beach Boys are the best pop group and George Jones is the best country singer. His recordings will live on. Goodbye George.
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Coke vs. Pepsi ~ that sort of thing.
I never realized what that song was about till now …
“When George sings a song…it HAS been sung” That’s a line from the emcee of some 60’s tv show where George lipsyncs a song and looks positively petrified from stage freight…or maybe he was too drunk to sing…but yeah, Paul, he’s number one in by little book. It is amazing to me that anyone could stand before an audience and sing with such passion and heartache, of tragedies great and small, lost love and loneliness, all accompanied by the ever-present weepy steel guitar.