Homecoming in Heaven

Performer: George Jones
Distributor: Select-O-Hits

Notes: Includes liner notes by Jimmy Guterman. A great selection of gospel songs sung by a man who knows a thing or two about sin and repentance, HOMECOMING IN HEAVEN is George Jones in 1962--it really doesn't get any better. The band cooks, George's voice soars, and the reverb is always big and lush. Highlights include the classics "Peace In The Valley" and "Wings Of A Dove" as well as "Wandering Soul," a powerful Jones original, and "Kneel At The Feet Of Jesus," a quirky Willie Nelson tune that Jones does up-tempo, Buck Owens style. Producer Pappy Daily gives the album an early "Nashville Sound" sheen (complete with white bread studio choir) but the sound actually makes a perfect foil to George's tough, teary eyed pleas for redemption. On HOMECOMING IN HEAVEN, George Jones shows that, like his hero Hank Williams, he's adept at investing spirituals with a deep sense of the humanity of Jesus but never forgets to sing the Hell out of a song.

George Jones is the greatest of country singers but he has also been a victim of the infamous hard-living honky-tonk lifestyle. Though he's gone through several phases, from rockabilly to honky-tonk to countrypolitan, his melismatic, Lefty Frizell-influenced style has remained at the core of his unique sound. His stormy marriage to Tammy Wynette (1969-75) included duet albums of love songs and bitter recriminations. By the late '70s, his drinking and cocaine addiction had made him so unreliable that he was known as "No Show Jones." In 1979 he received medical treatment and staged a significant comeback with I AM WHAT I AM, which included his greatest single, "He Stopped Loving Her Today."

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