Disc 2
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. She Thinks I Still Care ~ George Jones |  |
| 2. We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds - (featuring Melba Montgomery) ~ George Jones | |
| 3. Race Is On, The ~ George Jones | |
| 4. You Comb Her Hair ~ George Jones | |
| 5. Girl I Used To Know, A ~ George Jones | |
| 6. Ceremony, The - (featuring Tammy Wynette) ~ George Jones | |
| 7. We Can Make It ~ George Jones | |
| 8. Loving You Could Never Be Better ~ George Jones | |
| 9. We're Gonna Hold On - (featuring Tammy Wynette) ~ George Jones | |
| 10. Picture Of Me, A (Without You) ~ George Jones | |
| 11. Maybellene - (featuring Johnny Paycheck) ~ George Jones | |
| 12. Once You've Had The Best ~ George Jones | |
| 13. Golden Ring - (featuring Tammy Wynette) ~ George Jones | |
| 14. Grand Tour, The ~ George Jones | |
| 15. Two Story House - (featuring Tammy Wynette) ~ George Jones | |
| 16. Door, The ~ George Jones | |
| 17. Bartender's Blues - (featuring James Taylor) ~ George Jones | |
| 18. These Days (I Barely Get by) ~ George Jones | |
| 19. Southern California - (featuring Tammy Wynette) ~ George Jones | |
| 20. I Can't Find It Here ~ George Jones | | Disc 3
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. He Stopped Loving Her Today ~ George Jones | |
| 2. Still Doin' Time - (with Ray Charles, featuring Chet Atkins) ~ George Jones | |
| 3. We Didn't See A Thing - (featuring Chet Atkins/Ray Charles) ~ George Jones | |
| 4. I'm Not Ready Yet ~ George Jones | |
| 5. Yesterday's Wine - (featuring Merle Haggard) ~ George Jones | |
| 6. If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will) ~ George Jones | |
| 7. She's My Rock ~ George Jones | |
| 8. Same Ole Me - (featuring The Oak Ridge Boys) ~ George Jones | |
| 9. I Always Get Lucky With You ~ George Jones | |
| 10. One I Loved Back Then, The (The Corvette Song) ~ George Jones | |
| 11. Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes ~ George Jones | |
| 12. Right Left Hand, The ~ George Jones | |
| 13. Somebody Wants Me Out Of The Way ~ George Jones | |
| 14. I'm A One Woman Man ~ George Jones | |
| 15. Wine Colored Roses ~ George Jones | |
| 16. I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair ~ George Jones | |
| 17. Wrong's What I Do Best ~ George Jones | |
| 18. High-Tech Redneck ~ George Jones | |
| 19. When The Last Curtain Falls ~ George Jones | |
| 20. Tramp On Your Street ~ George Jones | |
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | The career of one of America's greatest singers--let alone country singers--is charted with precision over the course of this three-disc box set. From early hits like "White Lightning" and "The Race is On," through classic countrypolitan material such as "The Grand Tour," up to latter-day classics like "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair," this set doesn't miss a step, and includes an impressive 40-page booklet to boot. |
Musical Guests | | Melba Montgomery | | Tammy Wynette | | Johnny Paycheck | | James Taylor | | Chet Atkins | | Ray Charles | | Merle Haggard | | The Oak Ridge Boys |
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| Artist Overview |
| 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." |
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| Compilation Appearances |
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| Associated Artists and Works |
| Cash, Johnny | | Cash, Johnny | | Cash, Johnny | | Live At The Louisiana Hayride [Box] ~ Cash, Johnny | | Cline, Patsy | | Cline, Patsy | | Cline, Patsy | | Cline, Patsy | | George Jones & Tammy Wynette | | Haggard, Merle | | Haggard, Merle | | Haggard, Merle | | Haggard, Merle | | Haggard, Merle | | Haggard, Merle | | Nelson, Willie | | Paycheck, Johnny |
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| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 05/20/2008 | | Original Release Date : 2008 | | Catalog ID : M19501DIGI | | Label : Time/Life Music | | Number of Discs : 3 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00610583216424 |
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| Professional Reviews |
| Blender (Magazine)
(p.79)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Not only does it document the young hit machine whose voice was too big to fit in a honky-tonk, it proves how well he aged after his two great decades ended in 1991." |
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