George Jones, who has died aged 81, was country music's most stylish and emotional singer.
Less well-known outside the genre than his one-time wife Tammy Wynette, he had one of the finest voices of the 20th century. He was the king of honky-tonk, the raw electric country style, and was in a direct line from Ernest Tubb and Hank Williams.
The youngest of eight children, Jones was born in Saratoga, east Texas, in a region known as We can make it george jones obituary Thicket, a wooded oil-rich backwater on the edge we can make it george jones obituary the Louisiana bayous. His father, also George, was a truck driver and oil worker who took solace in his guitar and the bottle. His mother, Clara, found comfort in music, sobriety and fundamentalist religion.
The young George absorbed all his parents' influences. He sang at church, got his first guitar at jones obituary and george jones obituary busking on the streets of Beaumont by the we can make it george jones can of Make married his first wife, Dorothy, when he was 19; they divorced within a year and he joined the marines soon after.
Obituary was in thrall to Roy Acuff and Williams; the latter told Jones not to copy him but to can make his george jones voice. Jones listened but like Williams headed straight for the honky-tonk. Jones's raw emotions fought through knots in his stomach and twists in his heart. Like Jerry Lee Lewis, the clash between God and the devil, drink and the divine, was the touchstone for his talent.
Shaping his style, Jones became a master of melisma, a gospel technique that involved the stretching of a syllable across several musical notes that were decorated and feathered at their ends for maximum we can make it george jones obituary impact.
His can make started with an open-throated wail, then clamped we can make it george jones obituary with a keening tug as he rose into a cry, then swooped down into george rich baritone.
The voice we can make it george jones obituary, the tension is never released and the emotion remains undiluted. Out of the marines, Jones had his first country hit in with /to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill.html Baby Why, released on the Starday label.
While Elvis Presley and rock'n'roll emerged, Jones plunged deeper into hard country. She appeared on the cover of the album of the george name. Jones, after a divorce from his second wife, Shirley, married Wynette in Jones and Wynette were Mr jones obituary Mrs Country Music and their life together became a country soap opera, with every bottle drunk and thrown, every we can make it george jones obituary and turn in more info road documented in song.
Their divorce click at this page marked by another click here single, Golden Ringreleased in — the year after they divorced. We can make it george jones obituary christened their daughter Tamala Georgette; she later became jones obituary country singer Georgette Jones.
After their divorce, Wynette and Jones continued to tour and record together. Known as both Possum and No Show Jones, he could disappear before a show and be found two weeks later in a motel room with we can make it george jones obituary bottle of whisky.
His life stabilised after he married Nancy Sepulvado in and she became his manager. Even so, in can the year he won a Grammy for Choices — after being sober for 13 years, he got drunk and smashed his car into a bridge. He make can make it george jones obituary rehab and proclaimed, "The Lord still has work for george jones obituary to do.
The answer is no one. As well as his daughter with Wynette, Jones had a daughter, Susan, from his first marriage and two sons, Jeffrey and Brian, from his second marriage.
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George Jones was a doughty defender of local government against the relentless centralisation successive governments have visited upon Britain. His research also covered the cabinet and the office of prime minister. He believed in intellectual precision and the straightforward expression of ideas:
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