Jones Country
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| Released | 1983 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Producer | Billy Sherrill | |||
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Jones Country is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1983 on the Epic Records label.
Background
The album's name was taken from an outdoor music park operated and owned by Jones in
Recording
Jones Country would end the singer's run of top ten LPs, peaking at number 27 on the Billboard albums chart. Part of the reason for this may have been overexposure – it was George's seventh album in three years – although this streamline production had been common practice at
Reception
Jones biographer Bob Allen summed up the album, as well as the plethora of other Billy Sherrill-produced Jones LPs from this period, as "uniformly competent" but "not particularly memorable", stating that "...during the mid-1980s Sherrill and the newly clean and sober Jones – as if making up for all the fallow years – began cranking out LPs at a faster rate than any time since the singer's years of over-recorded excess on the Musicor label, when he turned out a frightening amount of junk."
30 years after the release of this LP it became the focal point of a CD reissue project on April 15, 2013, paired alongside another LP, 1984's You've Still Got a Place in My Heart, for a 2-album on-1 CD release. Unfortunately the release of those studio albums onto CD for the very first time didn't get much notice due to the death of Jones 11 days later on April 26 at the age of 81.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | " John Anderson , Lionel Delmore | 3:26 | |
| 9. | "One of These Days (But Not Tonight)" | Earl Montgomery | 2:26 |
| 10. | "Famous Last Words" | Curly Putman, Ron Hellard, Bucky Jones | 3:16 |