Golden Ring (American Beat)
George Jones
Engineer: Lou Bradley,
Producer: Billy Sherrill
American Beat Records, 2007
1 CD
Catalogue #: 24092
EAN: 0783722240922
UPC: 783722240922
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Personnel includes: George Jones, Tammy Wynette (vocals); The Nashville Edition, The Young Country (background vocals).
Recorded at Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. Originally released on Epic (34291).
Recording information: Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.
GOLDEN RING was the first post-divorce album recorded by George Jones and Tammy Wynette after six years of stormy bliss. Despite the bad times, Country's First Couple used their past experiences as inspiration and the result was two country #1's, "Near You" and the gospel-flavored title track. Most of GOLDEN RING finds Jones and Wynette wrapping their dulcet tones around classic country weepers such as "Even The Bad Times Are Good" and Buck Owens' "Cryin' Time." Producer Billy Sherrill added the right amounts of pedal steel, strings and his use of The Nashville Edition as background singers shows just the right amount of restraint. Songs like "If You Don't, Somebody Else Will," "Did You Ever" and "Tattletale Eyes" feature good-natured sparring drawn from the deep love this former couple had for each other despite all the fussing and fighting.
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George Jones
George Jones is the greatest of country singers but he has also been a victim of the infamous hard-living honky-tonk lifestyle. Though he's gone through several phases, from rockabilly to honky-tonk to countrypolitan, his melismatic, Lefty Frizell-influenced style has remained at the core of his unique sound. His stormy marriage to Tammy Wynette (1969-75) included duet albums of love songs and bitter recriminations. By the late '70s, his drinking and cocaine addiction had made him so unreliable that he was known as "No Show Jones." In 1979 he received medical treatment and staged a significant comeback with I AM WHAT I AM, which included his greatest single, "He Stopped Loving Her Today."
