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Title: George Jones
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend
Author: Bob Allen
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1480355828
EAN: 9781480355828
ISBN: 9781480355828
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Genre: Biography
Topic: Music Dance & Theatre
Release Date: 01/02/2014
Description: George Jones's 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 ÊRolling StoneÊ magazine His voice was like a Stradivarius violin: one of the greatest instruments ever made. ÞJones's 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's 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.ÞJones's 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 227mm
Item Length: 151mm
Item Width: 23mm
Item Weight: 594g
Release Year: 2014

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