Nashville ? After they butchered the music, and abandoned the real and the great forefathers, G. Jones, Hank Williams, so many others, didn't Nashville move out of the Southern States ? 😏
Yes ,l am in total agreement with you on George + Merle, two great late wonderful singers of all times. Both RIP now Thanx Siloflo, Elizabeth.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
He's not bad, really a master of a certain kind of tone, and very enjoyable to listen to. But I still prefer the soulful nature of Jim Croce's voice or the darkness and raw power of Howlin Wolf's voice. This quote is credited to a man who did not have a bad voice either.
George jones has the golden voice of country music. Me and my great aunt spent hours upon hours listening to all the greats from lefty frizzell to George strait. No one can top ol possum. I’m a Waylon fan through and through but George jones has “the voice.” He set the standard for what real country music will sound like for generations.
We have a local radio station in Milwaukee, WMSE 91.7, and on Friday mornings 9-12 they have a show called the Chicken Shack. It's all old country, bluegrass, and rockabilly. Every show has a "Mandatory Jones" segment : )
They had the same band lol. She took control of the jones boys after divorce because they wanted a steady paycheck. George was missing more than appearing. When he did appear a few times he would be alone in some honky tonk alone with him borrowing someone's guitar.
@jsk81680 I respectfully disagree. None of the musicians in this video were part of The Jones Boys from 1975. They were all working steady with Tammy. This band is made up of totally different (but excellent) musicians.
I saw him live only once. Before he came on stage, somebody set up an armchair and side table downstage right; then a handsome gentleman escorted Miss Nancy to the chair and saw her comfortably seated with a beverage on the table. Then George walked on stage. The audience jumped to its collective feet and applauded and hooted for 6 solid minutes while the man stood at the mic gently smiling and waving. During the performance, Miss Nancy kept her eyes on him or looked down in a ladylike way. George looked at her occasionally during the performance, which was, of course, perfect.
Listening to George Jones reminds me of an America gone forever. I salute you, George. You were part of US watching this video in 2024 - and you running from the police on your lawn mower in 1982 was a bad ass moment in time!
I love a lot of kinds of music, but I've never heard anyone who sings any better than George Jones. No one has ever delivered the emotional goods like he did.
Watching the fans enjoying the show makes it painfully obvious how far we've fallen. Now people watch the show through their phones and waste their precious time with the artists they claim to love.
There is only one country king - George Jones. Everyone else is a pretender to the throne. NOTE OF CLARIFICATION: In NO way did I mean to dis Hank Sr. here. Of course, he was the major pioneer who blazed the male country trail. His songs mirrored his life of personal struggles; they were brilliant tracks and stand supreme to this day. And the world lost him far too young - a true tragedy. Jones adored Hank. Yet he went on to blaze trails of his own, singing songs of HIS troubles, with heartbreaking honesty. And that is why we love him. He is our mirror. And he sings with that VOICE! The voice that G-d surely gave to one man alone.
Just the mention of that song's title makes me want to cry. I can still hear my mother happily singing along with George whenever that song came on the radio. Soon, they'll carry us away, too.
There never be another JORGE JONES, listening too this old JONES now that I'm 61 years Old sounds just as good now in 2024 as it did way back in the day 40 years ago. LISTENING TOO GOOD O' JORGE JONES SING COUNTY MUSIC NEVER GETS OLD...
Yes. Written for him by James Taylor, who sang back-up vocals on the recording. Taylor also wrote an appreciation in Rolling Stone for its Best Singers edition.
i loved georges music, but since i quit booze, i cant listen to him anymore.it makes me want to drink again.so i'll keep my memories of george & my sobriety.
That's silly..music doesn't have that kind of power...there is help out there!! George Jones has me singing along with all his songs .I enjoy George and my life..alcohol has no place in my life! It's destroys life!!! Thanks for comment!!! Enjoy friend
I was 4. I probably started listening to old country in my early 20s at the same time as punk and metal. George gets played so often I hear my kids hummin his songs while they are playing. Timeless.
This is the K. I. N G. It Country music and this is during the peak of his drinking and Cocaine days. He still outdone himself. RIP To Lil’Georgie Jones
1980 was the peak of the cocaine and whiskey days for George but this is a rock solid performance from the man. He could still take the stage and sing flawlessly even when his life was falling apart.
@@kerrydavidsadler980 yeah I just read about that. They apparently just showed the Jones/Gosdin one from 1985 which is in my top ten. The Hank Jr from 1980 is another one. They skipped the first one by Yoakam and went to the 2nd one which has seen a DVD release the same as the Cash one being shown. Austin City Limits with Host Rodney Crowell will air Wednesday nights starting on June 8, for a total of 12 episodes. Episode programming includes: 1. Wednesday, June 8, 2022 10/9c pm - Charlie Daniels Band (originally aired in 1976) 2. Wednesday, June 15, 2022 10/9c pm - Hank Williams Jr. & Shake Russell - Dana Cooper Band (originally aired in 1980) 3. Wednesday, June 22, 2022 10/9c pm - Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell (originally aired in 1981) 4. Wednesday, June 29, 2022 10/9c pm - Kris Kristofferson (originally aired in 1981) 5. Wednesday, July 6, 2022 10/9c pm - Glen Campbell & Eddy Raven (originally aired in 1984) 6. Wednesday, July 13, 2022 10/9c pm - George Jones & Vern Gosdin (originally aired in 1985) 7. Wednesday, July 20, 2022 10/9c pm - Ronnie Milsap (originally aired in 1986) 8. Wednesday, July 27, 2022 10/9c pm - Johnny Cash with June Carter, Tommy Cash & The Cash Family (originally aired in 1987) 9. Wednesday, August 3, 2022 10/9c - Reba McEntire (originally aired in 1987) 10. Wednesday, August 10, 2022 10/9c - Dwight Yoakam & Patty Loveless (originally aired in 1988) 11. Wednesday, August 17, 2022 10/9c - Clint Black with special guests Lisa Hartman Black, Eric Johnson and Ray Benson (originally aired in 1999)
@@kerrydavidsadler980 wow, thank u for the tip. Broadcast tv is honestly the only place you can see this stuff if not youtube. Dvd and streaming won't pay for the music rights. Things are going to have to change so we can get shows like this on home video and streaming.
GEORGE WAS HURTING HE LOVED TAMMY AND MISSED HER,MAYBE THST IS WHAT MADE HIS MUSIC SO HEARTFELT ❤❤ I MISS THIS TODAY 2024 BUT I HAVE MY MEMORIES AND VIDEOS FROM U TUBE,THANK YOU TH-cam❤❤❤
Yes sir I agree. This is the only known video with veteran of the TX live country music scene Rob Dixon playing electric for Jones. He was tasked with putting a completely new band together for George. He was only his band leader & guitar player for right at one year. It's strange for me to see him then because I never met Rob until 2019 when he retired from performing and I ended up taking over his band as the front man/guitarist and the remaining gigs still on the books. He is now the really great soundman at Southern Junction a TX dancehall and restaurant outside of Dallas in the Rockwall area. He finally came into possession of this still commercially unavailable Austin City Limits episode. This was filmed at a time when they knew very little of Jones' material which is the reason for Johnny Gimble singing several tunes.
Just read his book it just don't seem possible for anyone to drown themselves in whiskey and cocaine like he did and live to tell about it.What a crazy life he had.
I think Nick Offerman could do well as GJ in a biopic. Since nobody really looks like George, you have to evoke him. Offerman has tons of strained intensity, plus he sings. I DO think that Michael Shannon was terrific as GJ in the "George and Tammy" multi-episode show originally on Hulu. Talk about restrainted intensity! And his singing was spot-on.
I’m pretty sure that today’s country music stations don’t play any George Jones songs today. It’s a crying shame. As Alan Jackson once sang, “Don’t rock the jukebox, i wanna hear George Jones, my heart’s not ready for The Rolling Stones.” Did anybody besides me notice the pedal steel guitar player wearing a T-shirt with Tammy Wynette’s picture in front?
I was high on meth in Clinton iowa. I had just dropped off from hitchhiking from savanna Illinois out of this big biker bar they've got there. I met this dude who was a meth cook and I went with him back to his his place to "get high"...turns out he was a queer. He was respectful though and ingot.put of their wihlthout a murder charge or any PTSD. dropped me at the walmart and as.inwasnwalkong through.the place I seen all the memorial magazines on the shelves by the register...brother, I sat down and cried. And read every one. And the ladies in the store come up to tell me I had to move along, or I wasn't allowed to read without buying...when they seen what.inwas reading and the state I was in, they just said sorry.and went about their business.
What an example of a perfect country western performance! This is country gold that will never be upstaged! The 1980’s decade was a miraculous time in my life that brought the very best days of my life mixed in with some of the hardest as well. Watching this takes me back to the good days I would so love to revisit. At least I can reminisce about the good ole days in a song.
Then it sounds like you saw a show likely very much like this one. I am friends with the guitar player in this show who actually resigned at some point in 1981. George Jones is the artist I saw live more than any other. If I hadn't seen Jones a few times between 1993 and 2010 or so then Conway would have been who I saw the most. My first concert seeing Jones was around 1987 I THINK. All of the concerts I saw of him had Conway Twitty as the headliner but a few different opening acts: Ronnie McDowell, Vern Gosdin, & finally Vince Gill until 1993. Then it was always different artists with him. The reason I saw him so much or any country artist for that matter from 1985 (10yrs old) until 1998 was because my Dad was an advertising man for Pepsi. He would buy tickets to all concerts that were the real deal and take store owners or managers as a business expense. As his son who loved country music, what he gave me by taking me with him was the biggest gift in the world.
@@waylonvids That’s awesome. I was 8 at the 1981 show. Don’t remember too much about it except Mom & Dad wanted to leave when Jerry Lee apparently came on stage inebriated lol. They were from that pre rock n roll, Hank Williams era so I grew up with what’s now called classic country always playing in the house. I had tix in 1995 to see George but he “ no-showed”.
@@123proffitt yeah your memory of how your parents acted about Jerry Lee is EXACTLY what I witnessed on my first Bocephus show except possibly worse. My MOM seems to still be mad about that night. Lol
Today is ten years since we lost the possum and I was blessed to have the chance to see him with Loretta and I am so glad I I had that chance in In Beaumont Texas God how I wish we could go to see them again
I was lucky my mom got into country music when I was growing up she had tickets to see Hank Williams the day he died so I got to listen to Hank and George Jones and all the other country dudes but nobody compares to Hank and George they are the greatest I can listen to them all day long I even get goosebumps watching this video their music will never get old you talking about soul these guys know how to do it.
There is only ONE George Jones. he was in a league by himself.
Accurate 💯💯 There will never be another.
Unforgettable man RIP George.
I Love George.
What Nashville has done to country music is an absolute tragedy.
Facts!
Lucky for us, there are plenty of other sources.
Nashville ? After they butchered the music, and abandoned the real and the great forefathers, G. Jones, Hank Williams, so many others, didn't Nashville move out of the Southern States ? 😏
I grew up there and I gotta say they havelostt all respect for musicians that have substance..it's sooooooo bad
That's right @michealyolch! You can say they've committed "Murder on Music Row"... Murder in the 1st Degree.
Early 80s George was George at his best. Same for Merle.
And he was sober mostly lol
George told Randy Travis that Merle Haggard was his favorite singer
When he would show up!!😊😊
Yes ,l am in total agreement with you on George + Merle, two great late wonderful singers of all times. Both RIP now Thanx Siloflo, Elizabeth.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
“If we could all sing like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones”. Waylon Jennings
@KimberlyFowler-po6mb Are you asking who said it? Waylon.
He's not bad, really a master of a certain kind of tone, and very enjoyable to listen to. But I still prefer the soulful nature of Jim Croce's voice or the darkness and raw power of Howlin Wolf's voice. This quote is credited to a man who did not have a bad voice either.
Everybody from the Beatles to the Stones
George jones has the golden voice of country music. Me and my great aunt spent hours upon hours listening to all the greats from lefty frizzell to George strait. No one can top ol possum. I’m a Waylon fan through and through but George jones has “the voice.” He set the standard for what real country music will sound like for generations.
Someone asked me one time who the greatest country singer was..and i replied "You mean other than George Jones?"
Hey, that's what John R Cash said too!
We have a local radio station in Milwaukee, WMSE 91.7, and on Friday mornings 9-12 they have a show called the Chicken Shack. It's all old country, bluegrass, and rockabilly. Every show has a "Mandatory Jones" segment : )
I am 84 years old and George Jones music will always the best to me.
Absolutely sir. I saw him in 89.
What is the The guy that is playing the fiddle, what is his name?
@@sharonstephens3256the late, great Johnny Gimble
87 year old housemate agrees that George Jones was a great one 👍
49years and I feel the same as you..
The steel guitar player wearing a blue Tammy Wynette t-shirt. Priceless!
I noticed that, too. George had a sense of humor.
They had the same band lol. She took control of the jones boys after divorce because they wanted a steady paycheck. George was missing more than appearing. When he did appear a few times he would be alone in some honky tonk alone with him borrowing someone's guitar.
@jsk81680 I respectfully disagree. None of the musicians in this video were part of The Jones Boys from 1975. They were all working steady with Tammy. This band is made up of totally different (but excellent) musicians.
"and thank you Tammy!" @47:59
As I read your comment the video shows a steel solo during “Me & Jesus”…George??
I was fortunate to see George live twice.
I saw him live only once. Before he came on stage, somebody set up an armchair and side table downstage right; then a handsome gentleman escorted Miss Nancy to the chair and saw her comfortably seated with a beverage on the table. Then George walked on stage. The audience jumped to its collective feet and applauded and hooted for 6 solid minutes while the man stood at the mic gently smiling and waving. During the performance, Miss Nancy kept her eyes on him or looked down in a ladylike way. George looked at her occasionally during the performance, which was, of course, perfect.
@@maggienorris7833 How cool! Nancy proved to be such a class act, & exactly what he needed.
I saw him twice - once with Tammy, and once solo when he had a HELLA flu.
And he STILL sounded great!
Same Here
This is Country at its best. Love ol George Jones. Today’s Country don’t hold a candle to this.
Old george and Hank
yep.
The best country singer of all time.
George Strait is great but George Jones will always be the King!
Agreed
Bob Wills.
George Strait will always be the king of country music
He might have been crazy, but my God, the man could sing a country song.
He wasn’t crazy just drunk and high!!
i got to thank the grateful dead for bringing george jones & country music to brooklyn ny in 1970 ..
Facts
I didn’t know that. And I love them both! Thanks
Love the dead they do lot country covers .. they did working man blues at Woodstock and played on my Maria brooks and dun
So thank them then..no 😁 one cares..like your the manager of music bands or something!!! Lol
Totally for me,I thought all them tunes were Dead songs,especially race is on,mama tried, WOW,TY JERRY, TOTALLY AGREE
No one can duplicate his style. Original and one of a kind. ❤
Randy Travis can duplicate George Jones!
(but then he's not be Randy Travis)
Listening to George Jones reminds me of an America gone forever. I salute you, George. You were part of US watching this video in 2024 - and you running from the police on your lawn mower in 1982 was a bad ass moment in time!
George Jones sets the bar for what country music is!
Hands down the greatest country and western singer EVER
U got that right ✅ 😏 ❤😊 !!++
Man, when this man was "on" he was ON!! Nuthin' better than possum!
Even Waylon said, "If we all sounded like we wanted, we'd all sound like George Jones."
I love a lot of kinds of music, but I've never heard anyone who sings any better than George Jones. No one has ever delivered the emotional goods like he did.
Merle Haggard! :)
Merle was dynamite! But I stand with George as my #1! @@michaelyolch79
I totally agree love Jones and I couldn’t say it better agree 💯
dude was so talented that the rest of life seemed boring.
Dammm…what aperson would pay to see this again..in real life
Watching the fans enjoying the show makes it painfully obvious how far we've fallen. Now people watch the show through their phones and waste their precious time with the artists they claim to love.
this.is.real.country music 🎶🎶🎶🎶 George Jones Great entertainer beautiful voice great personality 💕💕💕💕
"The greatest country music singer in the world." R.I.P George. You are missed. ❤
There will never be another George Jones!
Unbelievable story and life!
There is only one country king - George Jones. Everyone else is a pretender to the throne.
NOTE OF CLARIFICATION:
In NO way did I mean to dis Hank Sr. here. Of course, he was the major pioneer who blazed the male country trail. His songs mirrored his life of personal struggles; they were brilliant tracks and stand supreme to this day. And the world lost him far too young - a true tragedy.
Jones adored Hank. Yet he went on to blaze trails of his own, singing songs of HIS troubles, with heartbreaking honesty. And that is why we love him. He is our mirror. And he sings with that VOICE! The voice that G-d surely gave to one man alone.
And Sr.
Agree. I think he got better as he got older, his voice deepened and the lower register of his voice was more powerful.
Big facts… everyone can say Hank sr all they want… GJ’s number ones eclipse anyone else’s and so does that voice.
You do know George copied many voices and styles early in his career. His voice is not unique to himself.
Bro…stop.
My Pop said He stopped loving her Today was his favorite song ever. I couldn't argue with that.
Just the mention of that song's title makes me want to cry. I can still hear my mother happily singing along with George whenever that song came on the radio.
Soon, they'll carry us away, too.
George didn’t want to do he stopped loving her today he said no one wants to hear that morbid shit and it turned out to be one if not his best.
Nor could I 👍👌
Bunch a boys had a few beers and a bunch of lines.. good Ole 80s
George Jones was the best country singer there ever was or ever will be .
Beat his demons....became a legend in music history in all genres. No one sang with such soul!
There never be another JORGE JONES, listening too this old JONES now that I'm 61 years Old sounds just as good now in 2024 as it did way back in the day 40 years ago.
LISTENING TOO GOOD O' JORGE JONES SING COUNTY MUSIC NEVER GETS OLD...
Amen Brother
This is the best cuz this was when George was getting arrested in the back of the police car and spitting words at the cameraman era
im a old bull hauler i listen his songs on the road all the time
This entire show was amazing. His bartender blues is top 5 best for me
Yes. Written for him by James Taylor, who sang back-up vocals on the recording. Taylor also wrote an appreciation in Rolling Stone for its Best Singers edition.
Greatest Country Singer Ever!
AMEN!!!
He is and will always be the best country singer, and little moments like at 13:36.... it's
just magical!!
i loved georges music, but since i quit booze, i cant listen to him anymore.it makes me want to drink again.so i'll keep my memories of george & my sobriety.
That's silly..music doesn't have that kind of power...there is help out there!! George Jones has me singing along with all his songs .I enjoy George and my life..alcohol has no place in my life! It's destroys life!!! Thanks for comment!!! Enjoy friend
I was 4. I probably started listening to old country in my early 20s at the same time as punk and metal. George gets played so often I hear my kids hummin his songs while they are playing. Timeless.
This is the K. I. N G. It Country music and this is during the peak of his drinking and Cocaine days. He still outdone himself. RIP To Lil’Georgie Jones
George had a rough life mostly caused by himself.
Glad he got it all together before he passed. Never be another.
TRUE Country OUTLAW!!!!
"Mostly caused by himself." Yeah, he was the only touring musician ever to be at least temporarily by that lifesyle.
Still listening in 2024
For years that was out 1964 I listened to going get my frist wife and I still enjoyed it ❤❤😊😊 !!++
Ohhh lisen only one that him and I am still linsen i have been up on bar stool mountain ⛰ before so long George i am still listening to you. !!++
I'm here
George is GEEKIN in this live performance
Cocaine is a hell of a drug. God bless The Possom.
Such an amazing voice and his phrasing is impossible to mimic. There was only one George Jones…the type of singer we’ll never see or hear again.
Never again
Legend of Country Music!!!
This is how a band is suppose to sound 💪🏼
1980 was the peak of the cocaine and whiskey days for George but this is a rock solid performance from the man. He could still take the stage and sing flawlessly even when his life was falling apart.
Only Jones and Hank Sr could " year your heart out when they sing ". Incredible
Tear
Like I say all the time this new can't hold up to Old country classic ❤
Lord no.
The Possum George Jones truly a legend.
This video shows how good George was without all the studio effects....He was just that d*** good.
14:35 If George Jones lets you sing one you must be legend.
Johnny Gimble is a legend.
Keep digging friend, you will find him.
George was the best singer.
Only 1 George, & Only 1 Tammy 👍👍❤️❤️🎶🎶
I miss the days when they released these shows on DVD :(
Yeah me too too. For some reason they have neglected to release many of the shows I believe are the very best ones. This one is on that list.
Circle TV are showing reruns of all the classic country artist that were on AUSTIN CITY LIMITS.
@@kerrydavidsadler980 Yeah, for us international overseas folks, that doesn't help up very much. :(
@@kerrydavidsadler980 yeah I just read about that. They apparently just showed the Jones/Gosdin one from 1985 which is in my top ten. The Hank Jr from 1980 is another one. They skipped the first one by Yoakam and went to the 2nd one which has seen a DVD release the same as the Cash one being shown.
Austin City Limits with Host Rodney Crowell will air Wednesday nights starting on June 8, for a total of 12 episodes. Episode programming includes:
1. Wednesday, June 8, 2022 10/9c pm - Charlie Daniels Band (originally aired in 1976)
2. Wednesday, June 15, 2022 10/9c pm - Hank Williams Jr. & Shake Russell - Dana Cooper Band (originally aired in 1980)
3. Wednesday, June 22, 2022 10/9c pm - Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell (originally aired in 1981)
4. Wednesday, June 29, 2022 10/9c pm - Kris Kristofferson (originally aired in 1981)
5. Wednesday, July 6, 2022 10/9c pm - Glen Campbell & Eddy Raven (originally aired in 1984)
6. Wednesday, July 13, 2022 10/9c pm - George Jones & Vern Gosdin (originally aired in 1985)
7. Wednesday, July 20, 2022 10/9c pm - Ronnie Milsap (originally aired in 1986)
8. Wednesday, July 27, 2022 10/9c pm - Johnny Cash with June Carter, Tommy Cash & The Cash Family (originally aired in 1987)
9. Wednesday, August 3, 2022 10/9c - Reba McEntire (originally aired in 1987)
10. Wednesday, August 10, 2022 10/9c - Dwight Yoakam & Patty Loveless (originally aired in 1988)
11. Wednesday, August 17, 2022 10/9c - Clint Black with special guests Lisa Hartman Black, Eric Johnson and Ray Benson (originally aired in 1999)
@@kerrydavidsadler980 wow, thank u for the tip. Broadcast tv is honestly the only place you can see this stuff if not youtube. Dvd and streaming won't pay for the music rights. Things are going to have to change so we can get shows like this on home video and streaming.
Not one impersonation artist can duplicate the president of country music ❤😮
Sammy Kershaw
We will hear him in the kingdom ❤
Ol possum flying HIGH up there jammin lol. Boys had a few of everything in that dressing room before the show 🤘🤘
Cocaine is/was my co- driver 😅😊
One of the greats in country legends, we need more music like his in country music today.
He's not one of the greatest, no one else is even close to being in his league, and those days are long gone
Amen...We seen him twice and bought tickets 4 times. HE H3LD up his end of "NO Show,Jones" 2 times.. Wonderful memories of him not showing up!!!!
GEORGE WAS HURTING HE LOVED TAMMY AND MISSED HER,MAYBE THST IS WHAT MADE HIS MUSIC SO HEARTFELT ❤❤ I MISS THIS TODAY 2024 BUT I HAVE MY MEMORIES AND VIDEOS FROM U TUBE,THANK YOU TH-cam❤❤❤
George was the best forsure!
The band gave him a perfect backing , great musicians , plus the great Johnny gimble
Yes sir I agree. This is the only known video with veteran of the TX live country music scene Rob Dixon playing electric for Jones. He was tasked with putting a completely new band together for George. He was only his band leader & guitar player for right at one year. It's strange for me to see him then because I never met Rob until 2019 when he retired from performing and I ended up taking over his band as the front man/guitarist and the remaining gigs still on the books. He is now the really great soundman at Southern Junction a TX dancehall and restaurant outside of Dallas in the Rockwall area. He finally came into possession of this still commercially unavailable Austin City Limits episode. This was filmed at a time when they knew very little of Jones' material which is the reason for Johnny Gimble singing several tunes.
No one compares. I was lucky enough to see him right before he sadly passed. He was "on time" & great! Such a sad loss.
The Best Ever in my book ! That voice , wow .
Just read his book it just don't seem possible for anyone to drown themselves in whiskey and cocaine like he did and live to tell about it.What a crazy life he had.
Johnny Gimble was such a legendary fiddler
The best!
George Jones is the man! What a voice-
So effortless. You can't fake it or over produce it. It either is or it isn't. And George Jones IS country
The one and only "Possum"!!! None better!
Jim Carey should play him if they ever make a movie about him
I think Nick Offerman could do well as GJ in a biopic. Since nobody really looks like George, you have to evoke him. Offerman has tons of strained intensity, plus he sings.
I DO think that Michael Shannon was terrific as GJ in the "George and Tammy" multi-episode show originally on Hulu. Talk about restrainted intensity! And his singing was spot-on.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_%26_Tammy
I see Jim Carey also.
Yes he would, would love to see a good true rendition movie about George
I can see Carey playing the old 'possum. He'd be great because his method acting is scary.
George Jones is and will always be The King of Country Music❤️🎶💯
I think this is the BEST of GEORGE JONES,I LOVE THE BACK UP BAND!
Incredble! Just incredible! Still watching and listrening in 2024!!!
Blitzed and Powdered but still the greatest country singer in the world.
I jus remember my pops playing country All the time, love the old school country💙
I’m pretty sure that today’s country music stations don’t play any George Jones songs today. It’s a crying shame. As Alan Jackson once sang, “Don’t rock the jukebox, i wanna hear George Jones, my heart’s not ready for The Rolling Stones.” Did anybody besides me notice the pedal steel guitar player wearing a T-shirt with Tammy Wynette’s picture in front?
Their version of Ida Red is ON FIRE ! I just love George doing those impromptu high harmonies too
I was at a Leonard Cohen concert the day George Jones died, he sang one of his songs as a tribute, I didn't expect that.
I was high on meth in Clinton iowa. I had just dropped off from hitchhiking from savanna Illinois out of this big biker bar they've got there. I met this dude who was a meth cook and I went with him back to his his place to "get high"...turns out he was a queer. He was respectful though and ingot.put of their wihlthout a murder charge or any PTSD. dropped me at the walmart and as.inwasnwalkong through.the place I seen all the memorial magazines on the shelves by the register...brother, I sat down and cried. And read every one. And the ladies in the store come up to tell me I had to move along, or I wasn't allowed to read without buying...when they seen what.inwas reading and the state I was in, they just said sorry.and went about their business.
@@rossmerrill1163 hell of a story
@@rossmerrill1163dope can intensify the downs as well as the ups making for an experience that can’t be forgotten.👍🏽✌️☮️
@@rossmerrill1163 They were probably all Jones fans. They understood your emotion.
I just love this! All great players but the bass player's whole vibe is amazing!
The Best music country forever
This seems like it was done is a totally different time and place. RIP George Jones.
He was the greatest
Absolutely
No true country like this anymore 😢
He felt it and lived it.
There's some out there but it's not on the radio unfortunately.
Check out Sturgill Simpson's album Cutting Grass Vol 1. Tyler Childers Purgatory is really good too. Both should be on TH-cam.
@@sicsempertyrannis77is yall nuts? Beyoncé just came out with a hit called, “dis ain’t texas”
Not on the radio, but good country music is alive and well. Just gotta find it.
The master at work!
What an example of a perfect country western performance! This is country gold that will never be upstaged! The 1980’s decade was a miraculous time in my life that brought the very best days of my life mixed in with some of the hardest as well. Watching this takes me back to the good days I would so love to revisit. At least I can reminisce about the good ole days in a song.
My first concert was George in March of ‘81 with Tammy and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Then it sounds like you saw a show likely very much like this one. I am friends with the guitar player in this show who actually resigned at some point in 1981.
George Jones is the artist I saw live more than any other. If I hadn't seen Jones a few times between 1993 and 2010 or so then Conway would have been who I saw the most.
My first concert seeing Jones was around 1987 I THINK. All of the concerts I saw of him had Conway Twitty as the headliner but a few different opening acts: Ronnie McDowell, Vern Gosdin, & finally Vince Gill until 1993. Then it was always different artists with him.
The reason I saw him so much or any country artist for that matter from 1985 (10yrs old) until 1998 was because my Dad was an advertising man for Pepsi. He would buy tickets to all concerts that were the real deal and take store owners or managers as a business expense. As his son who loved country music, what he gave me by taking me with him was the biggest gift in the world.
@@waylonvids That’s awesome. I was 8 at the 1981 show. Don’t remember too much about it except Mom & Dad wanted to leave when Jerry Lee apparently came on stage inebriated lol. They were from that pre rock n roll, Hank Williams era so I grew up with what’s now called classic country always playing in the house. I had tix in 1995 to see George but he “ no-showed”.
@@123proffitt yeah your memory of how your parents acted about Jerry Lee is EXACTLY what I witnessed on my first Bocephus show except possibly worse. My MOM seems to still be mad about that night. Lol
@@waylonvids Ahh Moms an BOCEPHUS EH ! Some times they dont mix .
@@123proffitt i saw Jerry lee in Canada in 83 i reckon he was still Drinkin !
This is a Treasure
I love George Jones like he was family. I feel like George and Merle helped raise me.
Both of 'em found Jesus late in life and got saved. Very glad of that.
George Jones is legend!
God Bless George Jones, he is performing in that Heavenly home today.
Best damn version of White Lightning I ever heard him do !
I love it too!
Merle Haggerty said that everytime he heard George sing he realized he couldn't.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME, no one will EVER come close to being better than the Possum
Hands down way better than hank
how many artists are truly original? George Jones
Today is ten years since we lost the possum and I was blessed to have the chance to see him with Loretta and I am so glad I I had that chance in In Beaumont Texas God how I wish we could go to see them again
👑👑GEORGE👑👑
I was lucky my mom got into country music when I was growing up she had tickets to see Hank Williams the day he died so I got to listen to Hank and George Jones and all the other country dudes but nobody compares to Hank and George they are the greatest I can listen to them all day long I even get goosebumps watching this video their music will never get old you talking about soul these guys know how to do it.
I can't quit smiling as I listen to this.
Nothing like a fiddle and steel. Dam soooo good
Charisma personified.
This is SO GOOD! I've been watching it every day for the last few weeks. THANK YOU!