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Burning Your Playhouse Down: The Unreleased DuetsGeorge Jones
Release Date: 08/19/2008
Original Release:
2008
# of Discs:
1
J&R Item # 1033039_CD
UPC # 015707984225
Label: Bandit Records
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Performer: George Jones
Artist: Geogette Jones; Leon Russell; Ricky Skaggs; Dolly Parton; Keith Richards; Vince Gill; Jim Lauderdale; Shelby Lynne; Mark Chesnutt; Mark Knopfler; Marty Stuart; Tammy Wynette Producer: Keith Stegall; Billy Sherrill; Brian Ahern Distributor: Welk Notes: Personnel: George Jones (vocals); Louis Dean Nunley (vocals). Audio Mixer: John Kelton. Arranger: D. Bergen White. While duet recordings are a dime a dozen in the world of country music, nobody does duets like George Jones, whose recordings with Tammy Wynette and Melba Montgomery virtually defined the form. BURN YOUR PLAYHOUSE DOWN collects the honky-tonk hero's previously unreleased duet performances from the 1993 BRADLEY BARN SESSIONS and 1988's FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES, as well as a lost '70s track with Wynette and a 21st-century tune by Jones and his daughter Georgette. While the cuts with artists like Wynette and Dolly Parton--both old hands at the duet game--are as great as you might expect, one of the surprise highlights is a version of the title track with Keith Richards, who turns in one of the finest vocal performances of his career. And revisiting his classic "The Window Up Above" with the help of Leon Russell, Jones proves that he still hasn't exhausted all the interpretive possibilities of even his best-known material.
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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