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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Why Baby Why
2. Just One More
3. Tall, Tall Trees
4. Color of the Blues
5. White Lightning
6. Window up Above
7. Tender Years
8. She Thinks I Still Care
9. You Comb Her Hair
10. Race Is On, The
11. We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds - (with Melba Montgomery)
12. Still Doin' Time
13. Walk Through This World With Me
14. She's Mine
15. I'll Share My World With You
16. Good Year For the Roses, A - (with Alan Jackson)
17. Take Me - (with Tammy Wynette)
DISC 2:
1. Picture of Me Without You, A
2. Once You've Had the Best
3. Grand Tour, The
4. These Days I Barely Get By
5. Her Name Is
6. Near You - (with Tammy Wynette)
7. Bartender's Blues - (with James Taylor)
8. Nightlife - (with Waylon Jennings)
9. He Stopped Loving Her Today
10. Yesterday's Wine - (with Merle Haggard)
11. Same Ole
12. I Always Get Lucky With You
13. She's My Rock
14. Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes
15. One I Loved Back Then, The (Corvette Song)
16. Right Left Hard, The
17. Radio Lover
DISC 3:
1. I'm a One Woman Man
2. Few Ole Country Boys, A - (with Randy Travis)
3. You Couldn't Get the Picture
4. Finally Friday
5. I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair
6. High-Tech Redneck
7. One - (with Tammy Wynette)
8. I Must Have Done Something Bad
9. When Did You Stop Loving Me
10. Wild Irish Rose
11. Choices
12. Cold Hard Truth, The
13. Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You in?) - (with Garth Brooks)
14. 50,000 Names
15. I Got Everything
16. Amazing Grace
Album Notes
Personnel include: George Jones (vocals, guitar); Melba Montgomery (vocals); Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard, Randy Travis, Tammy Wynette, Waylon Jennings.
Recording information: 1955 - 2004.
Even the title of the three-disc George Jones collection 50 YEARS OF HITS should be enough to tell you that the man being anthologized is one of the all-time giants of country music. A towering influence on all that followed him, not only in country but in rock and pop as well, Jones started out in the 1950s as a Hank Williams-influenced honky-tonk man who wasn't afraid of a little rockabilly either (the Hank influence is clearly audible on such early tracks as "Just One More"). By the '60s, he'd refined his approach, taking a bit from the jazz-inflected style of Lefty Frizzell and becoming a striking balladeer. "She Thinks I Still Care" and "Color of the Blues" stand as templates for how to sing a country ballad.
For most performers, that would have been enough, but Jones never stopped turning out heart-stopping performances. This is underscored by the presence of the mid-period mind-blower "He Stopped Loving Her Today," which reaches a superhuman level of pathos, and latter-day tracks such as the unstintingly bleak "The Cold Hard Truth," as well as the high-spirited, good-humored "Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?)." In case future generations want to know what country music was all about back in the 20th century, there should be a copy of 50 YEARS OF HITS placed in a time capsule.
Industry Reviews
Strict chronology allows for fun realizations... - Grade: A
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