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He stopped loving her today...

First my grandma on the 10th of this month and now George, a man that my grandma's brother used to get drunk with back when him and George were younger. My uncle is going to be crushed when he finds about this. Can the month of May finally get here already? April is getting way too death filled. :( :( :(

God bless you and my uncle and George's family always!!!

Holly

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hard hit!! i dreaded this day!!!thank God, we the recipients of his God given country talent, were able to be blessed for so many continuous years of our lives. this is the man, and this is the peak representation of the heritage of our American country music culture.

a few of my fav George Jones country masterpieces:

tennessee whiskey
im not ready yet
still doin time
same ol me
the right left hand
where grass wont grow(bradley barn sessions album cut)
..and everything he ever sang with Tammy!

-scott
 
It is sad, but he's come so close so many times before. It's amazed the way he lived that he lasted this long. But we'll always have those great recordings, as long as we have stations to play them.

Which makes me wonder. What are the "hot country" and "new country" stations doing to acknowledge this? Anything?
 
Just last Saturday my wife and I were enjoying some hour-long George Jones YouTube loops. It was a reflective moment, as we offered each other comfort over the troubling reality of George's age, and how he 'is' one of the few surviving Opry acts. My 90-year old mother-in-law joined us. She agreed. As my wife prepared for work this morning, I pulled up YouTube again and played Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes. It was very, very painful.

Grieving for George has brought me back to Feb '02 when Waylon Jennings died. That news shocked me; his death came about a month after an upbeat progress report was published on his recovery from earlier surgery, even lauding hopes for a comeback tour by summer. I was inconsolible. I drove my white '84 Ford pickup to a nearby 7-11 and bought me a 12-pack of Bud. Returning to my home in the country, I popped open the first of the 8-cans I would eventually consume, sat down on the tailgate, and proceeded to crying like a baby while listening to Waylon tunes on my portable radio.

I felt as attached to George as I was to Waylon, but I'm living in the suburbs now, so I'll play some George/Tammy on YouTube again and do my crying in front of the computer screen, inside.

Yes, the news of George's passing has crushed me. I'm sure I'm not the only country fan feeling this sense of personal loss, like my favorite uncle just died. That's how it goes with fans of true country music. It's terrible, and it's personal.

The good ones, the true legends, are all dying, and nobody's left to fill their shoes...
 
^^^ You know that Alan Jackson is still here at least to fill the Possum's shoes.

God bless you and him always!!! :) :) :)

Holly
 
In the last 20 years we've lost 3 country music legends in the year that ends in 3. Conway Twitty 1993, Johnny Cash 2003, and now George Jones for 2013. Quite an odd scenario.
 
What a sad loss! He, and Johnny, and Tanya Tucker, and Conway, "WERE" country music of the 1960s and 1970s. God bless him, RIP!

-crainbebo
 
the marv said:
In the last 20 years we've lost 3 country music legends in the year that ends in 3. Conway Twitty 1993, Johnny Cash 2003, and now George Jones for 2013. Quite an odd scenario.
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We still have Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, and David Allan Coe.

God bless you and them always!!! :) :) :)

Holly

P.S. Forgive me if I have missed anyone.
 
James Otto Sweet Heart said:
the marv said:
In the last 20 years we've lost 3 country music legends in the year that ends in 3. Conway Twitty 1993, Johnny Cash 2003, and now George Jones for 2013. Quite an odd scenario.
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We still have Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, and David Allan Coe.
God bless you and them always!!! :) :) :)
Holly
P.S. Forgive me if I have missed anyone.
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Thankfully yes. And, as you stated earlier, we still have Alan Jackson too. I guess the concluding thought of my cathartic little post would have made more sense had I written "few" are left...

BTW, April is the birthday month of Willie, who turns 80 next week, and Merle, who celebrated his 76th 3-weeks ago.
 
^^^ Another person who is still here is the other George of country. May George Strait have many years in front of him still. :) :) :)

God bless you and him always!!! :) :) :)

Holly
 
I just now thought of someone that I forgot earlier...Charlie Daniels is still here with us thank the Lord. I didn't forget Dolly Parton either. I am just thinking about all the male legends that we have lost so far and how many that we have left.

God bless you and the legends who are still here always!!!

Holly
 
Not sure if George was giving their signal a little extra push this evening, but WSM was coming in like a local in North Pinellas. There were of course, plenty of tributes. Montgomery Gentry was on when I pulled into my driveway doing theirs.
 
Ray Price is still alive at age 87.

I understand the sense of loss. I have felt it ever since seeing the news this morning.
 
Losing George is tough..Heard some George locally today..I felt like our local station should have scrapped the VT's and the playlist and gone all George when the news broke..They did not..WSM claimed George A-Z but I heard Her Name Is twice in three hours and a Daryl Singletary song that mentions George twice in three hours If you wanna do it right play every charted song from 1955-2005??? If memory seves me its like 167 titles..That's impressive...George deserves such a tribute in my opinion..
 
I still remember years ago, going into the production studio with the new 45s that had come in the mail... hearing "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" for the first time... and feeling a few chills run up my back and probably a tear or two down my face.

RIP, George.
 
I opened Tennesee Whiskey..Who's Gonna Fill.. and The One I Loved Back Then and a great song called The King Is Gone(And So Are You) and played them immediately..Also a great duet with Lacy J Dalton Size Seven Round And Made Of Gold..Gosh I miss the days of tearing open new 45's and being the First one to grab the Billboard & The R&R out of the mailbox..
 
The death of George Jones totally knocked the wind out of me. And it got me pissed off at the sorry state of country music today. It's strayed too far from the basics.

And in a way, I'm going to get really pissed off at KKWF if I turn them on and they're playing a George Jones song. Because they never played a single George Jones song since the time they went on the air.

We're losing our legends kids. And Willie, Loretta, Charley, Ray and Merle are in their twilight years as well. It would be a good time for this rap/rock/techno whatever-it is-country music industry to start showing some RESPECT....
 
I'm with you Bong...These record companies put out 75% of these condolences from the younger artist who couldn't name 5 Jones songs if you held a gun to their head...
 
allenv said:
I'm with you Bong...These record companies put out 75% of these condolences from the younger artist who couldn't name 5 Jones songs if you held a gun to their head...
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I look at it like this. When someone opens the door to your success, it's nice to say "Thank you" when they're still around to HEAR it.
 
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