George Jones Sings Bob Wills
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| Released | 1962 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 26:27 | |||
| Label | United Artists | |||
| Producer | Pappy Daily | |||
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George Jones Sings Bob Wills is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1962 on the United Artists Records.
Background
George Jones Sings Bob Wills was Jones first album with United Artists after leaving
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys which, in the early 1960s, ranked alongside of Hank Williams
in popularity and its ability to be reinterpreted in continuously fresh fashions. The album was produced by H.W. "Pappy" Daily, who had also been guiding Jones's career since his start in 1954.
Reception
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of
honky tonk, occasionally informed by Western swing
, but only as a coloring device. He is singing these songs in his signature pure country style, and the results are pretty terrific, not only because this is the hardest country he cut at United Artists, fueled by a crackerjack band playing at its peak, but because these are tremendous songs that are open to such a sly reinterpretation as given to them by Jones and Daily." In his 1994 article "The Devil in George Jones", Nick Tosches singled out Jones's singing on "Warm Red Wine" for particular praise, "the pure, stark sincerity with which he delivered the lament 'I'm a prisoner of drink who will never escape' that was uncommonly disquieting. It was more than a testimony to the power of his singing; it seemed a personal testament, a wail from the abyss, as well."
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Track listing
- "Bubbles in My Beer" (Tommy Duncan, Cindy Walker, Bob Wills) – 2:20
- "Faded Love" (Johnnie Lee Wills, B. Wills) – 2:39
- "Roly Poly" (Fred Rose) – 1:52
- "Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones) – 2:06
- "Take Me Back to Tulsa" (Duncan, B. Wills) – 1:56
- "The Warm Red Wine" (Walker) – 2:53
- "Time Changes Everything" (Duncan) – 2:54
- "Worried Mind" (Ted Daffan, Jimmie Davis) – 2:19
- "Silver Dew on the Bluegrass Tonight" (Ed Burt) – 2:23
- "San Antonio Rose" (B. Wills) – 2:47
- "Steel Guitar Rag" (Leon McAuliffe, Cliffie Stone, Merle Travis) – 2:22
- "Big Beaver" (B. Wills) – 2:36