The Hits...Then 'Til Now [Box]

Performer: George Jones
Artist: Melba Montgomery; Tammy Wynette; Johnny Paycheck; James Taylor; Chet Atkins; Ray Charles; Merle Haggard; The Oak Ridge Boys
Producer: Harold W. "Pappy" Daily; Emory Gordy, Jr.; Keith Stegall; Norro Wilson; Billy Sherrill; Colin Escott (Compilation)
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Personnel: James "J.T." Taylor (vocals). Liner Note Author: Colin Escott. Authors: Clint Black; George & Nancy Jones; Emmylou Harris; Garth Brooks; Randy Travis; Vince Gill; Waylon Jennings. The career of one of America's greatest singers--let alone country singers--is charted with precision over the course of this three-disc box set. From early hits like "White Lightning" and "The Race is On," through classic countrypolitan material such as "The Grand Tour," up to latter-day classics like "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair," this set doesn't miss a step, and includes an impressive 40-page booklet to boot.

Blender (Magazine) (p.79) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Not only does it document the young hit machine whose voice was too big to fit in a honky-tonk, it proves how well he aged after his two great decades ended in 1991."

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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