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Gary Gentry wrote “The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song),” and George Jones released it on September 21, 1985, a...
10/11/2026

Gary Gentry wrote “The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song),” and George Jones released it on September 21, 1985, as the second single from Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes. It reached number 3 on the country chart. That’s a good run for a song named after a car and a girl from long ago. Gentry’s name doesn’t turn up much on Jones records, which makes this one worth a closer look. Everyone remembers a first car and what went with it, and I’d play this to someone who still does 🚗
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George Jones asked a question in 1985 that country fans are still asking: who is going to fill their shoes? Troy Seals a...
10/10/2026

George Jones asked a question in 1985 that country fans are still asking: who is going to fill their shoes? Troy Seals and Max D. Barnes wrote the song as a tribute to country legends, and it name-checks stars like Elvis, Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. It was released on June 8, 1985 as the first single and title track from the album, and it climbed to number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

The video is set at a roadside gas station, where the owner shows George his collection of albums and memorabilia from classic country artists. It won awards from both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association, in a category that had only been created the year before.
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Vern Gosdin recorded “If You’re Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right)” in 1983, and he wrote it with Max D. Barnes. George Jon...
10/10/2026

Vern Gosdin recorded “If You’re Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right)” in 1983, and he wrote it with Max D. Barnes. George Jones didn’t cut his own version until 2005, for the album Hits I Missed...And One I Didn’t. That’s 22 years between the two recordings. Barnes is also behind “I Turn to You,” which Jones released back in 1987, so he’d been singing Barnes’s words for nearly twenty years by then. The plea in the title is polite, almost businesslike. I’d say Jones sings it like a man who has earned the right to ask 🎻
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George Jones did not want to record “She Thinks I Still Care.” At least, that is how the people around him remembered it...
10/10/2026

George Jones did not want to record “She Thinks I Still Care.” At least, that is how the people around him remembered it.

Writers Dickey Lee and Steve Duffy were under contract to Jack Clement and Bill Hall’s publishing company, and Clement kept pitching the song to Jones at their Gulf Coast Studio in Beaumont, Texas. According to biographer Bob Allen, Jones wasn’t impressed. Session player Raymond Nalley recalled that Jones kept eyeing the beat-up tape recorder the demo played on and asking what they’d sell it for. Hall finally told him he could have the recorder if he’d just cut the song. Jones himself later insisted he loved it from the first listen.

He recorded it on January 4, 1962, and it became his first single on United Artists after leaving Mercury. It spent 23 weeks on the country chart, six of them at #1, and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
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“Where Grass Won’t Grow” was written by Earl “Peanut” Montgomery, one of George Jones’ favorite songwriters. It tells th...
10/09/2026

“Where Grass Won’t Grow” was written by Earl “Peanut” Montgomery, one of George Jones’ favorite songwriters. It tells the story of the hardships of a family living on a twelve-acre farm in south Tennessee.

The record is as quiet as its subject. It has a gentle mandolin, and three modulations that build toward a redemptive closing. Jones recorded it in 1969 for Musicor with Pappy Daily producing. Musicor released it as a single on January 5, 1970, with “Shoulder to Shoulder” on the B-side. It opens the album of the same name.

It did not become one of his big hits. The single peaked at #28 on the Billboard country singles chart and #31 in Canada, and the album reached #15 on the country albums chart.
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Melba Montgomery wrote “We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds,” and she sang it with George Jones when it came out in March...
10/09/2026

Melba Montgomery wrote “We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds,” and she sang it with George Jones when it came out in March 1963. It reached the top five on the country chart. A woman who wrote a song and then sang it beside the biggest male voice in the genre doesn’t happen often. The song launched the pair as one of the best country duos of the decade. Jones and Montgomery would later put out Bluegrass Hootenanny together, so this was the start of something 🎙️
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What is a brush arbor? It was an open-air shelter made from tree branches and brush, where rural congregations once held...
10/09/2026

What is a brush arbor? It was an open-air shelter made from tree branches and brush, where rural congregations once held summer revival meetings. George Jones turned that memory into one of the best-known tracks on his 1965 album Old Brush Arbors.

Gordon Ardis and Darrell Edwards wrote the title song, which runs 2:27 and looks back at roadside revival meetings from a child's point of view. Darrell Edwards had history with Jones. He also wrote "If You Believe," another track on the same record, and co-wrote "Seasons of My Heart" with Jones.

Musicor released the album in July 1965 with Pappy Daily producing. It was Jones's third collection of gospel songs, and it sits next to hymns like "I'll Fly Away," "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" and "The Lily of the Valley."
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Leon Payne wrote “Things Have Gone to Pieces,” and George Jones released it on March 13, 1965, as his first single after...
10/08/2026

Leon Payne wrote “Things Have Gone to Pieces,” and George Jones released it on March 13, 1965, as his first single after signing with Musicor Records. It spent 21 weeks on the chart and peaked at number 9. Payne also wrote “The Selfishness in Man,” which Jones put on his April 1965 album that same spring. A new label, a new single, and two Payne songs inside a month or so. I’d say Jones knew exactly whose writing suited his voice 🎻
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Billy Sherrill wrote "Good Lovin' (Makes It Right)" and produced it too, so the man running the board was also the man w...
10/07/2026

Billy Sherrill wrote "Good Lovin' (Makes It Right)" and produced it too, so the man running the board was also the man who gave Tammy Wynette the words. It came out in June 1971 and spent two weeks at number 1. When one person holds both jobs, nobody argues over the sound, and you can hear it here. Nothing fights for attention, and the title states the whole idea before she sings a note. I'd play it with the windows down 🎙️
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Two legendary voices from different corners of the music world shared a microphone on "You Never Looked That Good When Y...
10/07/2026

Two legendary voices from different corners of the music world shared a microphone on "You Never Looked That Good When You Were Mine." George Jones sings it as a duet with Patti Page, the voice behind "Tennessee Waltz."

Johnny MacRae and Bob Morrison wrote it, and Billy Sherrill produced it at Eleven Eleven Studio in Nashville for the album W**e Colored Roses, where it is track 7. It runs about 2:33.

It wasn't a single. The album's singles were "W**e Colored Roses," which went to number 10, "The Right Left Hand," which went to number 8, and "I Turn to You." W**e Colored Roses reached number 5 on the country albums chart and went Gold in 1994.
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