SPECIAL JONES' TRIBUTE ON "SOUNDSTAGE" SEPTEMBER 20TH
Look for a new GAC series, Soundstage, which features some of country’s biggest artists, including George Jones, Trisha Yearwood and Trace Adkins.
Soundstage originally aired from 1974-1985, before returning in 2003.
“GAC is thrilled to be able to offer Soundstage to our viewers,” says Sarah Trahern, senior VP of programming for GAC. “It remains a groundbreaking television concert series and will give fans a chance to see some of country music’s top stars perform in an intimate setting.”
GEORGE JONES TURNS TO CRACKER BARREL FOR HIS NEW ALBUM
George Jones last played New York three years ago—at Carnegie Hall on Halloween, 2006—and he was wearing a cast on his hand and couldn’t play guitar. But the legendary country music star was in fine fettle during a lengthy stay in New York to promote his latest CD, A Collection Of My Best Recollection.
The disc is mainly made up of Jones classics like “He Stopped Lovin’ Her Today” and “White Lightning,” and is available through the Cracker Barrel country store/restaurant chain and its web site. It shows a vintage front cover black-and-white picture of the young Jones with an acoustic guitar, sitting on a stool—with a similar back-cover shot of Jones as he looks today, at 78.
GEORGE JONES ADMITS DISTASTE FOR COUNTRY RADIO
George Jones has a problem with today’s country radio – namely that there’s so little actual country music to be found there!
“The radio don’t play traditional country music like it used to,” he tells The 9513. “I listen to Alan Jackson and George Strait. They’re still on the stations. And we like Sugarland, too. Most of the new artists, they understand me. We’re good friends. Kenny Chesney is like my son, [along with] Dierks Bentley, and several of them. They know I love traditional music and I know what they have to do. We still all go out and have a steak together; they’re good people and they do good work. It’s just ain’t what I like anymore.”
GEORGE JONES IS STILL GOING STRONG: THE 9513’S EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
A few short decades ago, George Jones built up quite a reputation for missing concert dates and appearances. Things have changed: “No Show Jones” called me five minutes early for our interview. Well, actually it was his wife, Nancy, who really seems to run the show, as she handed over the phone with a cheerful “Here’s the Possum!”
JULI THANKI: You’ve just celebrated a birthday. Do you have a favorite birthday memory?
GEORGE JONES: The one that my wife let me off, I guess. (Laughing). The last few years I’ve been working on my birthday. A lot of the new artists have helped me celebrate the last couple birthdays by doing a salute at the Ryman. They’d sing my songs and I’d be in the audience and before the show was over I’d do a couple songs myself. They’ve honored me that way the past couple years and I thought that was awful nice of ‘em. It was a pleasure to hear somebody else sing my songs.
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