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Known by his fans as the King of the Broken Hearts, George Glenn Jones has been blessed with one of the most distinctive, influential and golden voices in the history of country music. Infatuated with the music of Hank Williams at a dangerously young age, Jones spent the better part of his youth playing in smoky honky-tonks until he developed a songwriting style that spawned nearly as many chart-toppers as Eddy Arnold. Like many of the great country singer-songwriters, Jones is an authentic soul who has always put his life into his songs, which tell tales of debauchery and the downtrodden through his personal battles with alcoholism, divorces, drug binges and other emotional torments. Shortly after Jones hit the charts hard with the platinum-selling widow's anthem "He Stopped Loving Her Today" in 1980, he married his fourth wife, cleaned up and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Although Jones hasn't hit the charts in a while, he continues to tour with his loyal backing band the Jones Boys.
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About The George Jones
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."
George Glenn Jones (born September 12, 1931), nicknamed The Possum, is an American country singer known for his distinctive voice and phrasing. He is second to Eddie Arnold in the number of songs he had has on the country charts. Since at least the early 1980s he has frequently been referred to as "the greatest living country singer." Almost as often he is called "the Rolls-Royce of country singers." Frank Sinatra once called him "the second best white male singer."
Jones was born with a broken arm in Saratoga, Texas and grew up in the settlements north of Beaumont around the Big Thicket. By age 24, he had been married twice, served in the Marines and developed his skills as a country musician and singer. "Why Baby Why" was his first top-five hit in 1955.
Jones' drinking was legendary and for a great part of his life he woke up to a Bloody Mary and spent the rest of the day drinking bourbon. In the mid 1970s he added cocaine to whiskey. His self-destructive bent brought him close to death and from the height of fame in the '70s to the inside of a mental hospital in Alabama at the end of the decade. During this period, he missed so many booked engagements that he was known as "No-Show" Jones.
His third wife, Tammy Wynette, was the passion of his life. The pair were married in 1969 and performed a string of duets together but Tammy could not keep him off the booze and after a turbulent relationship the couple divorced in 1975. It was his fourth (and present) wife, Nancy Sepulvado, whom Jones credits for rescuing him from the bottle. The pair were married in 1983 and they live outside the town of Franklin, Tennessee.
In his biography I lived to Tell It All, published in 1996, Jones sets out a chronicle of his life and his bad behavior. Despite the hard living, hard drinking past, George Jones continues to make albums and play to his loyal fans. He spends up to 165 days a year on the road.
