George Jones - Essential: Spirit of Country (Dbl Jewel Case)
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Artist: George JonesEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1998-08-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Why Baby Why
- Just One More
- Color of the Blues
- White Lightning
- Who Shot Sam
- The Window Up Above
- Tender Years
- She Thinks I Still Care
- We Must Have Been out of Our Minds
- The Race Is On
- Love Bug
- I'm a People
- Walk Through This World with Me
- If My Heart Had Windows
- A Good Year for the Roses
- We Can Make It
- The Ceremony
- Loving You Could Never Be Better
- A Picture of Me (Without You)
- We're Gonna Hold On
- Once You've Had the Best
- The Grand Tour
- The Door
- These Days (I Barely Get By)
- Golden Ring
- Her Name Is
- Near You
- Bartender's Blues
- Maybelline
- Two Story House
- He Stopped Loving Her Today
- I'm Not Ready Yet
- If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)
- Still Doin' Time
- Same Ole Me
- Yesterday's Wine
- I Always Get Lucky With You
- Tennessee Whiskey
- We Didn't See A Thing
- She's My Rock
- Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes
- Wine Colored Roses
- I'm A One Woman Man
- The King Is Gone (So Are You)
Free Music Notes for Essential: Spirit of Country (Dbl Jewel Case)
Free Music Review: a great box set with only minor flaws
Hit: 5 Stars
this box set was released in 1994 during the middle of his 40th Anniversary as a recording artist. this box set is great and for a major record label like Epic/Sony to showcase George's other hits on other labels too, well, that in itself is amazing. i love the selections that are showcased BUT (here comes the "but" interjection once again)...i didn't like the liner notes in the mini-booklet dealing with George's signing with Epic in 1971. the guy who wrote the liner notes, Rich Kienzle, if you didn't know, is or was a critic for a magazine called "Country Music". Rich and several other critics for that magazine don't keep their hatred hidden for George's Epic material. Rich and Bob Allen are the two biggest complainers of the Epic days. well, anyway, Rich goes into detail about the "soap opera" that Billy Sherrill created with George and Tammy's songs. he then goes in for more detail after the break-up and the "no show" days. on top of this, in a box set supposedly to celebrate George Jones' incredible body of work, Rich feels it necessary to quote Billy Sherrill's odd statement which went something like: {i think that George oversang 'Bartenders Blues'; it was like George Jones trying to sound like George Jones...}. was there any need for such a comment like that to be included in this box set? i love Bartender's Blues and in reality it's James Taylor's soaring harmony that would make you think it's "oversung". the music itself is excellent and all original material. the box set was issued by Sony/Epic and therefore all of George's major Top-40 hits on Epic from 1972-1989 are on here (minus his wonderful 1977 Top-40 "If I Could Put Them All Together", his 1984 Top-10 "You've Still Got a Place In My Heart" and his two Top-20 duet hits with Brenda Lee on "Hallelujah, I Love You So" and Lacy J. Dalton on "Size Seven Round and Made of Gold" in early 1985 but that's about the only Epic material that made the Top-40 that ISN'T on here, though!). as a result, this box set totally wipes out the importance of having 1982's "Anniversary: Ten Years of Hits" unless you're a completist. near the end of this booklet, Rich talks about how "I'm a One Woman Man" was his last hit for Epic in early 1989. this is incorrect. "The King is Gone", which was originally known as "Ya Ba Da Ba Do", hit #26 in mid 1989 and "Writing On The Wall" would hit #31 in late 1989. so, technically, "Writing On The Wall" was George's final hit single. two of his 1990 Epic singles wouldn't chart and THEN he moved to MCA in 1991...but that's another story, maybe there's a volume two in the works to showcase his post 1991 material???! get this box set but be aware of the highly opinionated liner notes and some inaccuracies (like the one i just described about "One Woman Man" NOT being his last hit for Epic). you know, some people assume because an album contains no hit singles that it isn't worth talking about. well, i look at it with this view: i'd rather have an album that had NO hits because NOBODY would know about it and i'd have a RARE/little-known album and as a collector i know that completists like myself want the rare unknown albums as much as the well known titles. there is simply no excuse for critics and "historians" on George Jones to ignore 1983's "Shine On", 1983's "Jones Country", 1984's "You've Still Got a Place In My Heart", 1987's "Too Wild Too Long", and 1990's "You Oughta Be Here With Me" and act like they don't exist. once again, get this box set BUT throw away the booklet if you walk away thinking it's too negative for an "anniversary" project like this.
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