Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Why Baby Why
2. Just One More
3. Color Of The Blues
4. White Lightning
5. Who Shot Sam
6. The Window Up Above
7. Tender Years
8. She Thinks I Still Care
9. We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds
10. The Race Is On
11. Love Bug
12. I'm A People
13. Walk Through This World With Me
14. If My Heart Had Windows
15. A Good Year For The Roses
16. We Can Make It
17. The Ceremony
18. Loving You Could Never Be Better
19. A Picture Of Me (Without You)
20. We're Gonna Hold On
21. Once You've Had The Best
22. The Grand Tour

Disc 2:

1. The Door
2. These Days (I Barely Get By)
3. Golden Ring
4. Her Name Is
5. Near You
6. Bartender's Blues
7. Maybelline
8. Two Story House
9. He Stopped Loving Her Today
10. I'm Not Ready Yet
11. If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)
12. Still Doin' Time
13. Same Ole Me
14. Yesterday's Wine
15. I Always Get Lucky With You
16. Tennessee Whiskey
17. We Didn't See A Thing
18. She's My Rock
19. Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes
20. Wine Colored Roses
21. I'm A One Woman Man
22. The King Is Gone (So Are You)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72510 in Music
• Released on: 1998-08-18
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set

Album Description
Sub-titled 'The Spirit Of Country' this exclusive 44 track collection spans the country great's entire hit and award filled career. The honky tonk legend's tumultuous personal life is in evidence here in songs like, 'We Can Make It', 'These Days (I Barely Get By), 'Why Baby Why' (mono), 'She Thinks I Still Care' and of course his classic duets with Tammy Wynette. Additional artists include James Taylor, Johnny Paycheck, Ray Charles, Chet Atkins, Melba Montgomery and Merle Haggard. 1998 release. Slimline double jewel case.

Amazon.com essential recording
The quarter drops, and out comes the voice of Despair, anxious at first, then desperate, with the singer sliding up a wail meant to caress and exorcise his demons at the same time. He holds the cry as he might the last bottle on earth and then plunges to the low notes in a moan that leaves no doubt--when you talk about pain and suffering, George Jones has been there. The proof is in this 44-song, two-disc box set, a tear built into every groove, starting with the stripped-down production of Pappy Daily's early Starday hits ("Why Baby Why"), segueing to the Mercury years ("The Window up Above"), dipping into the United Artists and Musicor material ("Love Bug"), and then moving on to the Billy Sherrill era at Epic, where Jones secured his legend with his emotionally charged renderings of melodramatic material ("The Grand Tour"). The set is rounded out with a smattering of Jones's countrypolitan duets with Tammy Wynette ("Golden Ring"), as well as "He Stopped Loving Her Today," the preeminent modern country song and performance. --Alanna Nash

Customer Reviews

The Essential George Gones
What can be said about George Jones other than a master of the art of singing. Great!!!

George Jones
Ah. the good old days. George Jones was truly a great artist and some of the songs he has written that are on this album give me goosebumps

George Jones classic
There's a whole lotta listening in this package. George Jones delivers straight on country and he's still going strong at 75. His voice is pure and the lyrics beat today's syrupy songs.