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Disc 1:

  1. No Money In This DealDownload & Buy
  2. I'm Ragged But I'm RightDownload & Buy
  3. Why Baby WhyDownload & Buy
  4. Just One MoreDownload & Buy
  5. Color Of The BluesDownload & Buy
  6. White LightningDownload & Buy
  7. Out Of ControlDownload & Buy
  8. You're Still On My MindDownload & Buy
  9. The Window Up AboveDownload & Buy
  10. Tender YearsDownload & Buy
  11. She Thinks I Still Care
  12. A Girl I Used To KnowDownload & Buy
  13. The Race Is OnDownload & Buy
  14. We Must Have Been Out Of Our MindsDownload & Buy
  15. Take Me
  16. We Can Make ItDownload & Buy
  17. Loveing You Could Never Be BetterDownload & Buy
  18. What My Woman Can't DoDownload & Buy
  19. A Picture Of Me (Without You)Download & Buy
  20. Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half As Bad As Losing You)Download & Buy

Disc 2:

  1. The Grand Tour
  2. Once You've Had The Best
  3. We Loved It Away
  4. The Door
  5. These Days (I Barely Get By)
  6. Memories Of Us
  7. I Just Don't Give A Damn
  8. A Drunk Can't Be A Man
  9. Stand On My Own Two Knees
  10. The Battle
  11. Someday My Day Will Come
  12. He Stopped Loving Her Today
  13. If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)
  14. I've Aged Twenty Years In Five
  15. Still Doin' Time
  16. You've Still Got A Place In My Heart
  17. I Always Get Lucky With You
  18. The Right Left Hand
  19. I'm A One Woman Man
  20. Choices

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Album Details: Essential George Jones

Release Date:
03/28/2006
Label:
Sony
UPC:
827969256527

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  1. Superb overview of country music's legendary singe

    , November 9, 2006
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It has a similar title and a similar length to Epic/Legacy's 1994 doubledisc set The Spirit of Country: The Essential George Jones, but Epic/Legacy's 2006 collection The Essential George Jones is a different beast entirely. At 40 tracks, it's four songs shorter than the '94 comp, but the real difference is in the song selection. Where The Spirit of Country offered a good overview of every label George recorded for between 1955 and 1989, Legacy could not get licenscing for his work for Musicor in the second half of the '60s, which means there are a few big omissions here, including "Things Have Gone To Pieces," "Love Bug," "I'm a People," "Walk Through This World With Me," "Say It's Not You" and "A Good Year for the Roses." With the exception of "Things Have Gone To Pieces" and "Say It's Not You," all of those singles were on The Spirit of Country, and their absence is felt on Essential, as is the absence of novelty numbers from 1959's "Who Shot Sam" to 1976's "Her Name Is..." These silly songs are nearly as much a trademark of Jones's style as his signature ballad style, so without them and without the Musicor The Essential feels a bit lopsided toward the serious hardcore honky tonk. Hardly a fatal flaw, of course, since this is where much of Jones's legacy lays, and it is a good, accurate overview of George's career, even if it's not as thorough or lively as The Spirit of Country. Apart from the aforementioned Musicor sides and his MCA work of the '90s (which is hardly a glaring omission), this offers a fair representation of his many labels: there are four cuts from Starday, six a piece from Mercury and United Artists, a whopping 25 sides from Epic which is appropriate, since he spent nearly 20 years on the label and had over 60 charting singles while he was there and, as a coda, a cut from his 1999 album for Asylum. Along the way, most, but certainly not all, of his big hits are presented, including "Why Baby Why," "White Lightning," "The Window Up Above," "Tender Years," "She Thinks I Still Care," "The Race Is On," "The Grand Tour" and "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Any George compilation that has all these hits, along with many other excellent songs, is bound to be a great listen and a useful overview it's just that the absences here are large enough that this can't quite supplant The Spirit of Country, which remains the best overall George Jones compilation. But if that set can't be found, this is a good substitute.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide



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